deadmessengers (1000+ posts) Thu May-08-08 02:48 PM
Original message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3259992
My right-wing co-worker is at it again...
Advertisements [?]In the past, I've posted here about the random spewings of a lunatic rightwinger I work with. He sits in his cube, listens to OxyContin Rush, Neal Boortz, and rants until his head is ready to explode over how horrible those on the left are. A few of my past postings can be found here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
So, today, I hear a conversation coming across the cube wall. And in this conversation, he asserts that the US Civil War (he calls it the War of Northern Aggression) was "not about slavery". gator?
While I've heard that truly absurd statement before, I just can't believe there are still people that ignorant - especially someone like him, under the age of 35. Not about slavery?
Now, I have a hard rule that I don't talk politics at the office. I stay away from the topic entirely, because differences in political opinions just create divisions in the workplace, something that I strenuously try to avoid. Barkeepers figured this one out a long time ago - no talking politics or religion in a bar, because people with a couple of drinks in them tend towards beating the crap out of each other when those topics come up.
But damn if today it wasn't hard to hold to my rule. It was really freaking hard for me to keep from saying - "If the civil war wasn't about slavery, then why was it specifically protected in the Confederate Constitution?" or "If the Civil War wasn't about slavery, then why do the words "slave" or "slavery" appear THIRTY FIVE times in Georgia's articles of secession?" It's times like this I really have trouble holding my tongue and keeping my professionalism, and to remember that I am there at the office to work, and to earn a living for my family, and not to roll around in the mud wrestling with conservative knuckledraggers like this guy.
this could get interesting...
Herdin_Cats (1000+ posts) Thu May-08-08 02:53 PM
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2. You're stronger than me.
I probably would have ripped him a new one. I think I may have permanently damaged my relationship with my sister-in-law when I finally got sick of her racist spew and told her just what I thought of all the hateful garbage about Mexicans and American Indians that comes out of her mouth.
pst...its Native Americans...
magellan (1000+ posts) Thu May-08-08 03:16 PM
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7. Yes, there was window-dressing on both sides
There were many in the North who opposed slavery, but as usual with politicians, this just provided good cover for what was, at its core, a war of economics between the North and South. (If it was truly about the plight of slaves, why was the north hip-deep in child slavery at the turn of the century?) The Civil War was driven by the wealthy elite on both sides who had stakes in the outcome, but sold to the guys who actually fought it as something they could care about: the moral soundness of abolition in the North, and the fear of former slaves taking jobs away from whites in the South.
Another Yankee, who now lives in the South.
you are a carpet bagger.
lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Thu May-08-08 03:09 PM
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6. Does your organization have a HR Dept that's worth a damn?
It could be worthwhile to let them know what the loonie
next door does to create a hostile work environment.
depends if the HR director is southern...
DangerDave921 (1000+ posts) Thu May-08-08 04:08 PM
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26. Oh come on!
A hostile work environment? Because a co-worker said something he disagreed with? Have we all become such candy-ass pansies to be so offended when a co-worker says something we don't like?
If you disagree with a co-worker, tell him so. You don't need to run to your boss to tell on him.
If you want the term "hostile work environment" to mean anything, you can't abuse it by running to your boss every time you're offended by a comment you disagree with. The guy is talking about history for pete's sake.
SHUT THE **** UP, DAVE!!!!
Beregond2 (953 posts) Thu May-08-08 03:35 PM
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13. You are right.
There is no place for that kind of talk at work. Why don't you complain to your boss? If you can, get a number of other employees to complain along with you. He doesn't have to take-on this guy specifically. He can just establish a policy of "no discussion of religion, politics or other controversial subjects will be tolerated at this workplace." It's not like the guy is going to go running to the ACLU!
becuase overreacting is a DU watchword!
BUT- let's look at the other reasons DUmmie has complained:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=797022deadmessengers (1000+ posts) Tue May-01-07 01:57 PM
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One of my co-workers scares me sometimes
Advertisements [?]I work with a little GOP blowhard. He sits there listening to RW talk radio (Typically Boortz and OxyRush) from one end of the day to the other, and repeats obsessively the talking points he hears. Every once in a while, he'll just get all worked up in a lather over something, usually how Democrats don't support the troops or some tired old thoroughly debunked canard like that.
This morning, he really got worked up into a frenzy with something that Boortz said, although I don't know what. He slapped his desk, and said, pretty loudly, "I swear, we need to just round up all these Democrats and hang every last one of them for treason." Despite the degree of ignorance and general ****wittery that would go into making a statement like that, I'm really starting to think that it's not just hyperbole, and that he believes that Democrats should be purged or something. It's a little frightening, actually. told you it was a good idea, but NO!!!
I try to keep my political views to myself at work - I just don't feel that it's appropriate. Apparently, I do a pretty good job, because this guy assumes that I'm a Repugnican. Sometimes, though, it takes a lot for me to bite my tongue and STFU while he sits there and rants and rants and rants.
How do you all keep from being driven nuts by your right-wing lunatic co-workers? I know most of you have'em...
OOooooooooooo....that's pretty rough, there, Nancy. Let's look at the other one...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1063266deadmessengers (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-07-07 03:39 PM
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The latest from my looney-toons rightwing co-worker
Advertisements [?]A few weeks ago, I posted here about my slightly unbalanced right-wing co-worker.
His latest outburst: "I can't wait for that fat **** Ted Kennedy to keel over. I think when he does croak I'll bring my daughter to see his grave, and explain to her why Daddy's taking a leak on it."
Any comment I might make about this would be entirely superfluous.
Pretty tame when it is compared to some of the DUmmie comments about republicans over the years...
