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WCDT Strips 3941-3945 (18-22 February 2019)
chris73:
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Sometimes someone is a victim, though - so we mustn't completely discount that possibility.
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For sure but much like the amount of people that claim to be gluten intolerant versus the amount who actually are there are a helluva lot of people claiming victim status versus those who actually are victims
sitnspin:
Who the hell are you to tell someone whether or not they are being victimised? You do realise how condescending and dismissive you sound, right?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 23 Feb 2019, 12:17 ---For sure but much like the amount of people that claim to be gluten intolerant versus the amount who actually are there are a helluva lot of people claiming victim status versus those who actually are victims
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That sounds all too like "it's not really common, so it doesn't really matter".
First, not being common doesn't mean that it doesn't matter, and:
Second, maybe in some places it's more common than you realise.
Good manners doesn't hurt you; but bad manners can hurt someone else, so take care and be sensitive.
Dandi Andi:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 23 Feb 2019, 12:17 ---
For sure but much like the amount of people that claim to be gluten intolerant versus the amount who actually are there are a helluva lot of people claiming victim status versus those who actually are victims
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Oh good. Now we're talking about food and that is in my wheel house.
In my safe serve courses, there was a lot of emphasis on food allergies, food intolerance, and immune compromised people. Making sure that my food preparation practices are safe for those people is a vital part of running my coffee shop.
Maybe I might argue that I've never gotten sick eating my home cooking and I don't use sanitizer or vinyl gloves. Maybe I might argue that people with food sensitivities aren't actually all that common and i shouldn't have to compromise efficiency to accommodate them. Maybe I might decide that this customer doesn't really have a dairy allergy, they're just being demanding. And if they do, then they shouldn't be ordering at a coffee shop where 90 percent of what I make has dairy in it.
I could make those arguments. And I might sometimes be right. Not washing my hands that one time really didn't make someone sick. They really didn't have a dairy allergy. But the consequences of being wrong are severe. It is so much better to take them at their word that they can't have milk and clean my equipment a second time just to be sure that they'll be fine.
And maybe, just maybe, it's worth it to respect people who tell me how being constantly reminded about how they're seen as outsiders impacts them. And all I have to give up is not insisting on my right to ask brown people where they're really from.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: pecoros7 on 23 Feb 2019, 13:25 ---[maybe] they really didn't have a dairy allergy. But the consequences of being wrong are severe.
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Just to emphasise this:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/24/father-of-girl-who-died-of-allergy-on-plane-blames-pret-a-manger
Asking where someone is from may not typically be deadly; but at the least one should assume that it can have the effect on people that some of them say it can!
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