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Vancouver woman has racist outburst in grocery store in front of her young son- "Speak English in Canada"

carlosrox

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Daily Hive Vancouver: Woman launches into racist tirade against staff at Burnaby Shoppers Drug Mart

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In front of what is presumed to be her son, a young woman freaked out and insulted staff at the Shoppers Drug Mart in Burnaby.

She tells them to "speak English in Canada", calls the staff "stupid", etc.

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I'm from Vancouver BC and have lived in Burnaby before. I wonder which location this is. Unfortunately Canada (and obviously basically anywhere) isn't exempt from racist bullshit like this.

Still a bit shocking to see this, even if it really isn't that uncommon.

There are racist assholes everywhere.
 
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DJ_Lae

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I saw a vinyl sticker on a rear window the other day with a Canadian flag and the words 'fit in or fuck off.'

It was beyond classy.
 
Nolbertos

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I go to that Shopers Drug Mart. Everybody on social media are also blaming the people for not standing up to the employees. The guy just filmed, uploaded and did nothing to say thats wrong. Society nowadays just films and does nothing
 
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carlosrox

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Nolbertos said:
I go to that Shopers Drug Mart. Everybody on social media are also blaming the people for not standing up to the employees. The guy just filmed, uploaded and did nothing to say thats wrong. Society nowadays just films and does nothing
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Which one is it?

Edit: How did I miss it in the very article I linked lol..
 
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Rizific

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in for the ruin of that lady and the inevitable "im sorry, thats not who i am" apology.
 
DopeyFish

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The dude in the light blue shirt was also either a manager or night supervisor depending on the time... so she basically was dehumanizing him by suggesting there was someone of higher authority than him.

He had full power to tell her to fuck off into space.
 
cmagus

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I live by here and go to that Shoppers Drug Mart from time to time they're always super nice in there. Not surprised though it wouldn't be the first time I've heard that in public.
 
Bradbury

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it´s sucks because one of my favorite things about The Couve was hearing multiple leangues while walking around downtown
 
DiipuSurotu

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I can already see her apology.

"I'm sorry if I offended people"
"I was tired that day because (insert sob story about her kid)"
"This does not represent who I am"
"I'm not racist, I eat Chinese all the time"
"etc."
 
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White woman complains to two workers on unceded land in a majority non-white city to speak only one language in a country with two official languages.

There's so many layers here.
 
SilverX

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People can be better than this, but no matter how much racism is exposed it still comes out of them
 
ShadowFox08

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Fernando said:
i hope she gets fired from her job.

that'll teach her.
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I don't know how I feel about this. Her outburst was uncalled for by all means, but sometimes I feel like internet vigilantism mob mentality takes it too far. Maybe it's a case by case basis, but is her losing a job and effectively ruining her prospects of future jobs (essentially ruining her life) really justice? She has a kid to take care of and he will be impacted the most. I dunno. She will make an apology no doubt, and she might get fired by her employer because it could make them look bad. What I just don't like about it is harassing the business with phone calls to get her fired and the death threats. I get the internet upload thing, but the death threats and what not are too much. Sigh

She should be punished but I wish she can apologize and learn from it vs getting fired right off the bat and having her life ruined.
 
Sanctuary

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carlosrox said:
Daily Hive Vancouver: Woman launches into racist tirade against staff at Burnaby Shoppers Drug Mart

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In front of what is presumed to be her son, a young woman freaked out and insulted staff at the Shoppers Drug Mart in Burnaby.

She tells them to "speak English in Canada", calls the staff "stupid", etc.

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I'm from Vancouver BC and have lived in Burnaby before. I wonder which location this is. Unfortunately Canada (and obviously basically anywhere) isn't exempt from racist bullshit like this.

Still a bit shocking to see this, even if it really isn't that uncommon.

There are racist assholes everywhere.
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When I see this kind of crap in real life, I almost can't believe these people actually exist outside of TV or film.
 
Unknownlight

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This is the country where every product sold is legally mandated to have two languages on its packaging...
 
DJ_Lae

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ShadowFox08 said:
She should be punished but I wish she can apologize and learn from it vs getting fired right off the bat and having her life ruined.
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I think she'll be okay. It'll likely pan out in a similar fashion to Kelly Pocha - she'll apologize that she was caught on camera, her employer will fire her in a public manner and then they'll rehire her after everyone has forgotten about it.

 
realSentientStone

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Just the escalating ego backlash against the system's adoption of reliable foreign labour in favour of the local labour.
Of course, the many visibly wealthy Asians in the area and in media farther causes the feeling of divide. Then of course, this narrative in the hearts of the population causes social unrest and can be used to gain election votes, etc. We are all one. :/
 
Brinbe

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what a fucking idiot.

pretty much everyone and their descendants in this country except the first nations are fucking fobs and were one at some point. and this racist is an idiot and embarrassment
 
ultracal31

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DiipuSurotu said:
I can already see her apology.

"I'm sorry if I offended people"
"I was tired that day because (insert sob story about her kid)"
"This does not represent who I am"
"I'm not racist, I eat Chinese all the time"
"etc."
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Haha I like you and "I eat Chinese"

I'm going with what you said and add in:

"I'm a community member"
"I was drugged"
"I'm married to an Asian"
 
Nolbertos

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mescalineeyes said:
It's ironic that this happened in Canada, doubly ironic that it happened in Vancouver of all places.
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I honestly think Vancouverites, Canadians (not new immigrants) not just this woman are getting tired of seeing housing go high, more and more people not speaking English. Just driving around Richmond, you can also see there's a language war going on between Chinese lettering in stores and English lettering. Same with Indian immigrants in Surrey. I'm starting to see more and more immigrants not integrate within Canadian culture and would rather "be with there people" so as to say. I use to see this type of rhetoric in the US due to latinos but now Canadians are getting frustrated with new Asians.
 
Jiraiya

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ShadowFox08 said:
I don't know how I feel about this. Her outburst was uncalled for by all means, but sometimes I feel like internet vigilantism mob mentality takes it too far. Maybe it's a case by case basis, but is her losing a job and effectively ruining her prospects of future jobs (essentially ruining her life) really justice? She has a kid to take care of and he will be impacted the most. I dunno. She will make an apology no doubt, and she might get fired by her employer because it could make them look bad. What I just don't like about it is harassing the business with phone calls to get her fired and the death threats. I get the internet upload thing, but the death threats and what not are too much. Sigh

She should be punished but I wish she can apologize and learn from it vs getting fired right off the bat and having her life ruined.
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Man...it really isn't fun to be on the receiving end of racism. Thanks for making us think of her feelings though.
 
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