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Old 12-11-2018, 10:47 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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My angry co-worker this morning chastised us and ridiculed us for potentially taking a couple of days off for the winter holiday season. She says that Christmas is a white supremacist holiday because it does not recognize that Jesus Christ was a Palestinian, not a white male.


She also said that we as Americans are profiting off the slave labor of black folk and the holiday is blatantly unjust to people of color, because white men get two weeks off from work and black and brown bodies do not.


This co-worker is pretty upfront about where she lies. She declared herself a Nina Turner or a Kamala Harris supporter and calls Beto O'Rourke and Joe Biden white conservative Democrats.


She wants a POC president.


Does the winter holiday season favor white people over other groups in America?

 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:48 AM
 
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Okay -- you have a crazy co-worker -- thanks for sharing.

Merry Christmas!
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:51 AM
 
Location: London
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This sounds like a made up caricature. Everywhere I worked, nobody ever openly discussed politics, much less said anything controversial like that.
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:53 AM
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She needs professional help and anger management classes, don't feed into her craziness...
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:53 AM
 
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Jesus was Jewish, not Palestinian.

I see plenty of white people working at Christmas alongside of the "brown bodies".

Alternative reality...
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:54 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by ohhwanderlust View Post
This sounds like a made up caricature. Everywhere I worked, nobody ever openly discussed politics, much less said anything controversial like that.


This is not a caricature. This is real. I work at a office supplies place. Things like this happen at work all the time. You can't say because you are not there. At my workplace, we are free to discuss politics because the boss wants it to be a place where we can have conversation and be free.


However, this particular coworker's leftist jeremiads is wearing some of my colleagues' thin.


The holiday season should be a time of reflection and joy, I suppose.
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:58 AM
 
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We've all worked with folks that have been a little out there at some point.

You'll be okay.

Go enjoy your holidays.

You have a choice on how much this frustrates you.

You could vent your frustration towards the outrage that 'Baby It's Cold Outside' has been banned on some stations.

OR

That some folks have discussed how Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was bulllied.

That may take away some of the frustration from your colleague.

Or you could just ignore it all and have fun with your holidays.

Not so many choices but not so hard to make one.
 
Old 12-11-2018, 10:59 AM
 
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Okay -- you have a crazy co-worker -- thanks for sharing.

Merry Christmas!
lol right?
 
Old 12-11-2018, 11:02 AM
 
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What exactly is the 'winter holiday season'? LOL
 
Old 12-11-2018, 11:15 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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What exactly is the 'winter holiday season'? LOL


This time of year. The November-January holiday season. That is what it is.
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