I do have the right to a non-threatening work environment. chances are she probably didn't know precisely what she was saying or to whom....
Yes, you do have a right to work in a non-threatening work environment.
Okay, imagine you're a light-skinned person of African-American ancestry. You consider yourself "Black" and you check that box on ethnicity surveys.
Now imagine she was talking shit like that about African-Americans, and using similar hate-speech and the term "nigger."
In what world would that be okay even if you were white? That's right, the world of not so many years ago. The world I lived in in *my* youth. And then people, Black and White and Brown and Red and Blue and Green and whatever all stood up and said, "Hey, you know what? That's stuff's really messed up, yo."
Going to your supervisor isn't going to change her mind. But maybe, just maybe, going to her and (without in any way discussing your sexual orientation) explaining that verbally abusing people for who they are is REALLY NOT OKAY, not under any reasonable moral code and not under the laws of Wisconsin. REALLY. IT'S NOT.
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Yes, you do have a right to work in a non-threatening work environment.
Okay, imagine you're a light-skinned person of African-American ancestry. You consider yourself "Black" and you check that box on ethnicity surveys.
Now imagine she was talking shit like that about African-Americans, and using similar hate-speech and the term "nigger."
In what world would that be okay even if you were white? That's right, the world of not so many years ago. The world I lived in in *my* youth. And then people, Black and White and Brown and Red and Blue and Green and whatever all stood up and said, "Hey, you know what? That's stuff's really messed up, yo."
Going to your supervisor isn't going to change her mind. But maybe, just maybe, going to her and (without in any way discussing your sexual orientation) explaining that verbally abusing people for who they are is REALLY NOT OKAY, not under any reasonable moral code and not under the laws of Wisconsin. REALLY. IT'S NOT.
But that's hard to do.
*MANY BIG HUGS*