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In reply to the discussion: Today I should have said something and didn't I am very angry with myself. [View all]ladyVet
(1,587 posts)17. I think you were right to keep silent (at least to them).
Nothing you said would have changed their minds, and they might have been the kind to exercise their stand your ground rights. I might have said something nice to the clerk, to let him know not everyone agreed with the bigots.
You aren't obligated to risk injury or death because of insults.
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Today I should have said something and didn't I am very angry with myself. [View all]
redstatebluegirl
Feb 2014
OP
I used my Mother's look, it is the one I used to give kids who came in my office
redstatebluegirl
Feb 2014
#4
I think if a person is shamed enough in public it may just change their behavior
Bandit
Feb 2014
#22
Shaming only works(and it never really works take fat shaming for example) on people with
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#33
Not smart of those two morans assuming the guy working the counter didn't hear them, too.
Ikonoklast
Feb 2014
#25
I'll always remember the one time I heard "n**r" directed at a black person by a white in anger.
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2014
#30