Today, at work I heard some very disturbing things from co-workers of mine. One of my male best friends is gay, and they no that (he once trained for a job at my place), one of my other friends stopped by my job today when I finished all my tasks early, he hung out for two hours, well, he stood there and spoke to me as I worked with customers. After he left, my first co-worker, lets call him Bill, says to another co-worker of mine, lets call this one Jose, ”Did you know she has a gay best friend?” Jose looked disgusted and Bill said “Jose is catholic, and I’m buddhist, we don’t like the gays. They are sickening out world and putting the natural order out of balance. Why didn’t you stop being friends with him when you found out?” When I replied “I don’t care, its his choice, and he is still my best friend. It’s not like he’s sick or anything, he just has a different lifestyle choice then you, and they do not put the “naturdal order” off balance.” Needless to say I can no longer look him in the eyes, how could such vile people call themselves religious? God created everyone and loves everybody, how could you hate so easily? Especially someone who calls themself a “buddhist” Thats sick, vile and ignorant. They have both let comments about my gay best friend fly before, usually along the lines of “Don’t let him come in here, I like my a** the way it is.” I let it slide, rolled my eyes and thought they were kidding, but the fact that tonight proved that they weren’t just made me feel ill. It’s not even the tip of the iceberg with them! I’ve heard so many racist comments. Bill, who is Sri Lankan, commented on the war between two different races of people in Sri Lanka, I believe he said “The (forgot the name of the group) belong there, the others are just parasites and need to go back to where they came from. Even here I can tell who is (other type of group whose name I also forgot), if you start a fight with them they run away then come back later when you arent expecting it with a knife, not us though. We are warriors, they are cowards.” I couldn’t speak the rest of the night. Supposedly my boss doesnt like Puerto Ricans because the guy that stole from him was Puerto Rican, his views rubbed off on Bill and one other co-worker I believe.. they were shocked when they found out my mother was jewish and said “You don’t look jewish, and you spend all of your money, you must have more catholic in you.” Thats ridiculous, and ignorant once again! I am appaled that I allow myself to keep the company of these people. I can’t quit my job (my boss is one of the nicest people I have ever met to all of us who work there, he treats us well, I can’t quit because he is simply misguided) but dealing with these people is difficult! I never understood people to be so uneducated in the actuality of the world. I am a straight female who is a melting pot of ethnicities and I have absolutley no problem with anyone with a different sexuality or race/religion/creed. How ANYONE could be so single minded and blame their views on religion is beyond me. I get it, the Bible has a passage about it, but do you not remember that the Bible was written in a time where there was little to no knowledge about anything different from the norm? I am so sick of all the ignorant, racist, disgusting people in this world hating on other people because of things NOT OF THEIR CONTROL (race, sexuality, etc.)
This issue affects everyone, we should stand up and embrace everyone who is different, because goodness knows NO ONE is normal or perfect.
STOP HATE.
