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The N word as an unsayable totem is one of the big white collar/blue collar divides in the bay area. It's almost an um depending on the group of people you're w
by truffdog 5y ago
The N word as an unsayable totem is one of the big white collar/blue collar divides in the bay area. It's almost an um depending on the group of people you're with.
If this was their engineering office I would agree.
- monocasa 5y agoUnless the bay area is somehow more accepting of casual racism than the deep south I find that hard to believe. All of the blue collar jobs I had in Georgia and Tennessee would fire you on the spot for dropping an n bomb on company time. Hell, it's more likely to get you fired there than in white collar in the south since HR is way more likely to immediately just immediately jump to staffing changes in any compliant; it's cheaper than dealing with the subset that'll then into lawsuits.
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- truffdog 5y agoThat's interesting. What were the demographic breakdowns in Georgia and Tennessee where you worked? White people are more circumspect with the magic word generally, it was the American-born children of immigrants who would really get wild with it, along with the black dudes who wanted to be or seem more street adjacent. Such an awkward way to phrase all of this.