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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Ciembronowicz" data-source="post: 916075" data-attributes="member: 15059"><p>Seriously???   People have lost all perspective in today's society.     People's looks and commenting on them is not racist, maybe insensitive depending on what is said but definitely not racist.    Calling an Italian having a "big nose" is not racist, though I suspect some would say it is.   Calling a polish descendent a "polak" is not racist (I am one).     Get over this "wokeism" that has and continues to drive wedges between people simply because of thin skins and sadly, too many  people have been taught that they are victims.  What happened to mental toughness, ability to let "words, even though they may hurt" slide off ?       Too much "powder puff sensitivity" leads to an inability to handle and deal with stress in our society.   I have worked with chinese, japanese, vietnamese, mexicans, several latin Americans, blacks, native Americans, E. and W Europeans and Scandinavians; they are tough people and deal with these kinds of "remarks".     Apologize, let it go and move on; this is ridiculous in our society today, we harp on what has happened, what someone says "that made us feel bad for a moment", seriously, there are more important issues in Life than someone suggesting another person has "slanted eyes" or many other similar comments.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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