[ SECRET POST #3527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3527 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Mildly annoying things thread

[(Anonymous)]

This is admittedly 100% self-inflicted, but it still causes me mad stress:

There's this guy that rides my bus who is functioning but has some visible cognitive/mental disabilities. He's normally very polite, but...idk how else to put it, he just seems to really hate Muslim women? If a lady in a headscarf gets on the bus, he'll go out of his way to get away from her, and he'll get really rude, up to and including telling her to take it off.

I keep wanting to speak up, because it's so wildly inappropriate, but then I don't want people thinking I'm just sort of yelling at a disabled man and sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. I usually try to offer a few words of encouragement to the lady, at least, but ugggghhhhh idk. It stresses me out.

Re: Mildly annoying things thread

[(Anonymous)]

Your approach seems perfectly reasonable. Starting (or getting into) a fight on public transit isn't a great idea, and if he's not quite All There, mentally, trying to argue Islamophobia with him probably isn't going to be productive: all you'd be doing would be changing it from a situation where a weird guy yells at a lady on public transit (i.e: a Monday) to a potential fight.

Let the lady know you see her predicament, be ready to intervene if for any reason he gets aggressive/violent, but I don't really think there's any need to intervene otherwise. The benefit would really just be for your own conscience.

Re: Mildly annoying things thread

[kallanda_lee]

9 chanced out of 10 he's influenced by a caretaker who has discriminatory views on Muslims. It's much like kids being racist because of their parents. Maybe don't yell, but ask politely why he's being mean to the lady?

Re: Mildly annoying things thread

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^^^^ very good points being made here

Re: Mildly annoying things thread

[sparrow_lately]

+10