Casual Racism

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During the weekdays I go to work, and they would never tolerate the kind of language I hear each day during the weekends or days off when I take public transit. And I can barely tolerate it myself, now that I hear it constantly when people, in public mind you, use racist or sexist labels amongst themselves, even when referring to acquaintances. A recent addition is "dog." I am wondering if they added that because of the word they used for decades when talking about their women, the female equivalent. Another common word is their of one who sells her body for cash ... Then there is the ultimate - the dictionary originally defined it as "a stupid person" but the connotations is the ultimate racist derogatory term - it ends with an r, has two g's in the middle, and starts with n. Not everyone uses it, but the subset that does are always there on public transportation, using it loudly when addressing friends, lovers, and everyone else who are their same race. One time a guy was talking on his cellular on the bus on the same seat as me. Every single sentence he used that word, referring to the person he was talking to. I'm sorry, but it's a disgusting word. One of these days I will make an issue of it - currently I am a coward, facing such racists.