People basically are racist by default. We fear the different, the other, we seem to be wired that way. Society is training us to be tolerant, it is training

People basically are racist by default. We fear the different, the other, we seem to be wired that way. Society is training us to be tolerant, it is training us to be better. Secondly, if your happiness in the place you spend half your waking hours is contingent on the people there not making you feel marginalised/belittled/stupid/irrelevant/worthless, and you have had bad experiences previously, I think it's reasonable for a key decision parameter to be "do I think the employees here are better than that"