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> First the new group manager was not shaking hands with him, not communicating with him properly etc.

Yeah - and for an American this is just the weirdest thing ever. I struggle with this a lot and have been told to not equate it with racism - but what the hell is it otherwise?

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Well, I don't know about 'racism' but assuming that the behavior was accurately reported, it is prejudice, and fairly blatant discrimination. I don't think people should get to be immune to criticism simply because of their race or any such characteristics, that just doesn't seem right to me.

You're 100% right - and it's just semantics.

It's just that I feel the R-word carries so much more weight on how we're judging something. When I hear people talk down on other people like that I have the same physical reaction of unease in my stomach that I have with the classic "brown people are bad" American racism that I was taught to fight.

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