> I work food service as a server right now. A few times a week, i’ll be serving people and i’ve started seeing negative racial stereotypes play out. This is very distressing to me because my whole life leading up to this point, i was raised in a racist household but i’ve always made friends with people from all sorts of different backgrounds and defended them with everything i have in me from comments i heard from my family. I was so sick of having to fight for my friends. I’m still friends with many of those people today, and although i don’t think any differently of them yet, i’m worried if this doesn’t stop, i might sometime in the future. It’s gotten to the point where i get scared to serve certain races because i’m scared it’ll ingrain further but i feel like being so worried about it has almost made me start looking for it in a way and only making it worse. I’ve thought about just quitting my job but i don’t have the stability to do that right now, but something needs to be done. I honestly feel embarrassed even posting this because i’m taking a serious issue i don’t have to face myself and i feel like it’s coming off all “woe is me”. I have no idea what else to do right now though. I don’t want to be a contributor to something so cruel.
1 year ago33 points(+0/-0/+33Score on mirror)4 children
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> You have to separate the race from the people though. It's not Asguardians tipping 2%, or Kryptonians being assholes and just pointing at the menu, or the Half-Orcs always getting drunk and hitting on the young servers, or the anunnaki leaving a giant mess at the table. It's jerks. It has nothing to do with what race they are, they're just jerks.
The absolute fucking soy of it all. This adult can’t separate reality from capeshit. I’m actually mad right now, going to do a set. What a fucking absolute faggot
This idiot fails to realize that certain races have a disproportionate number of jerks, and the number of jerks in a given race seem to be directly proportionate to melanin.
> I work food service as a server right now. A few times a week, i’ll be serving people and i’ve started seeing negative racial stereotypes play out. This is very distressing to me because my whole life leading up to this point, i was raised in a racist household but i’ve always made friends with people from all sorts of different backgrounds and defended them with everything i have in me from comments i heard from my family. I was so sick of having to fight for my friends. I’m still friends with many of those people today, and although i don’t think any differently of them yet, i’m worried if this doesn’t stop, i might sometime in the future. It’s gotten to the point where i get scared to serve certain races because i’m scared it’ll ingrain further but i feel like being so worried about it has almost made me start looking for it in a way and only making it worse. I’ve thought about just quitting my job but i don’t have the stability to do that right now, but something needs to be done. I honestly feel embarrassed even posting this because i’m taking a serious issue i don’t have to face myself and i feel like it’s coming off all “woe is me”. I have no idea what else to do right now though. I don’t want to be a contributor to something so cruel.
> You have to separate the race from the people though. It's not Asguardians tipping 2%, or Kryptonians being assholes and just pointing at the menu, or the Half-Orcs always getting drunk and hitting on the young servers, or the anunnaki leaving a giant mess at the table. It's jerks. It has nothing to do with what race they are, they're just jerks.
The absolute fucking soy of it all. This adult can’t separate reality from capeshit. I’m actually mad right now, going to do a set. What a fucking absolute faggot
Serving them is slavery. Free, unpaid labor