Just wanted to write about something that enraged me over lunch today.
There’s a girl in my finance department who I don’t like very much, simply because she has that financial-power-over-the-other-departments thing going on like most financial types I’ve worked with (for details see my previous post “those financial types”).
The thing is that she also a very conservative, traditional Tamil and I spent my lunch watching a lot of people bug her about the recent bombings. She was asked why nothing happened during the day and went to the extent of repeatedly asking her when the next one was going off and if she could check with her sources about it and let them know. Everyone was having a big laugh about it while she put on a forced smile and joined in the joke, telling them she’d let them know. She finished eating in a hurry and left the lunch table, never faltering on that smile she kept on her face.
I’m sorry, but I’m enraged, infuriated and disgusted at this. Isn’t this the route to bringing racism closer than we need it to? Could people possibly leave their uncooth, unlearned opinions at home before coming into work? What makes people think that joking about a controversial issue makes it more palatable? I think it makes it harder to deal with because a joke about something so ugly only solidifies what’s really going on inside.
I may not like this girl, but she sure as hell didn’t deserve this just because she works with a majority of people who are of a different race.
That isn’t a nice thing to do.. WHat can she do about it? and you know, some of our people never think before they do something.. and some just never really care!
Awwww… that sounds awful… poor girl. Such things are what fuel the hatred that’s at the bottom of this whole mess (along with the sheer money/power grabbing mentality of the rulers… but that’s another story).
Well maybe they honestly meant it as a joke, but it certainly was ill timed. A friend of mine underwent constant bullying at his school because he was the only tamil learning in the singhalese class… but that never got him down because he knew they were joking. If it was a bunch of guys who were sayin this stuff to this girl, that would be exceptionally bad, and if she is the kind that takes racist remarks very seriously, the best you could do roll eyes at these guys with her. At least she’ll know that there’s someone else that doesn’t approve.
“history will have to record that the greatest tragedy was not the strident clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people? – martin luther king
dont tolerate racism…
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where da fuck do you work ah ?
this is exactly why we still have an on going war. hmm…
As if Tamils wouldn’t do the same to Sinhalese.
So that makes it right, JustMal??
Don’t bother with JustMal. That’s his way of proving his ‘patriotism’ despite the fact that he’s abandoned the country.
What’s right is relative – and in this instance relative to what the other group does or would do under similar circumstances.
Just look at how the guilt-stricken, self-loathing Sinhalese peacenik Ngots bend over backwards to satisfy Tamil racists. If Tamils had a chance they wouldn’t just stop at racial humour – they would kill us all.
It’s OK, Malcolm, we understand you still haven’t got over your little Tamil ‘Star’ who used to put out to your pals.
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lol at tha sanju guy
but yea thats so mean
poor girl =(