ramses (imported) wrote: Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:23 pm
I wouldn't call that a lack of PC but rather a total disrespect for the young Jewish guy. Hoefully he is a not a hypocrit and has forgiven his foolish and inconsiderate friends.
I never asked but the word was that he walked five or six miles to get home that night. And not through "good" neighborhoods either. I knew so many people of different religious persuasions growing up that it never occurred to me to ask them to violate their religious beliefs. Nor did they ever approach me about my religious practices.
I hear these PC things and I chuckle but inside, I hope it isn't happening. It's not you and this joke and that I want to say again. But, I used to arrange a technical luncheon and talk and again, I had so many different people show up. the restaurant thankfully accommodated vegetarians, Buddhists, Orthodox Jews, moslems, Sikh's and few other dietary requests. And the restaurant accommodated breast feeding women. No one ever thought twice about those arrangements.
We also had a transgender male to female person at work and some people turned that into a circus. The men and women who worked with the (first man and then woman) scientist, understood and were supportive. But some people were real jerks about the situation. We had three bathrooms - He, She and "other"...
