Last night, here at work, a patient came in for an x-ray.

[Laffy Kat]

She actually said, in a normal voice, no discretion, no shame, "I only want a non-Asian tech." I thought I'd mis-heard her, so I said, "I'm sorry. What did you say?" She repeated it loudly and obviously annoyed. I told her that I would be happy to arrive her for her x-ray, but I was NOT going to request a non-Asian technologist. Then I asked her if she still wanted the x-ray and she said, "No, I'll pass." and she left.

What the eff is wrong with people? I've worked here for twelve years and nothing like that has happened before.

[MIButterfly]

1. I think DJT has given these cretins permission to show their true

ugly colors and be as hateful and as ignorant as they want to be. They like him because they don't have to try to hide it anymore. At least that's my theory.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Yes, I believe you're right.

I will add that the waiting room was packed and there was an audible, collective gasp at her request.

[yellow dahlia]

6. I have the same theory.

In 2016 I said they crawled out from under their rocks.

And at the time I said - I don't know how they will be forced to go back under their rocks.

[chia]

15. Your theory is correct - I heard it straight from the MAGA horse's mouth: "Trump speaks for me."

Trump gave them permission to be as hateful, racist, as bigoted as they'd always wanted to be but had been constrained by the social mores that Trump threw out the window.

[Roy Rolling]

34. It was carefully cultivated assholery

I remember like it was yesterday in the winter of 2015 when I began answering to MAGAt-newborns for Trump bullshit. He’d been on a steady grievance about not getting enough cake and he said “they’re coming after you “.

He said the quiet part out loud: be afraid of everyone and everything and I will protect you.

Youse got a nice country here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.

[appleannie1]

20. You are right on.

Look around and observe. A sub group of almost humans have put themselves in upper class and are now demanding instant service from people they consider beneath them. (anyone in the service industry from wait staff, clerks through airline personnel.) Members of that sub group will board a plane, find out a brown or black skinned person will be sitting next to them and demand another seat. They are rude and ignorant and many of them wear red caps on their heads or T-shirts emblazened with flags the ettiquette of which they have never learned. They all have one thing in common. They idolize the orange one.

[Skittles]

43. yes

and they vastly overestimate how much of the general public will put up with their bullshit

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Wow

That was blatant.

[Tetrachloride]

3. i was witness to an incident

similar results

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Wow

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Oh no. That was dreadful.

As was mentioned up above, the orange monster has made this kind of thing permissible (in their heads)

How are we ever going to repair the damage?

[Wifes husband]

9. We can't. These assholes have always been around

All trump has done is give them permission to reveal themselves. I grew up around some of these jerks, and they learned to be quiet about their beliefs, but they never changed.
It is all about racism of some kind or another.

[cstanleytech]

32. They've always been here they've just been pretty good at concealing themselves and there just simply unmasking.

[Bluetus]

8. I would have been tempted to say, "No problem, Sally can do your X-Ray", and then

Call the receptionist over and say "Sally, this lady doesn't want any of our technicians to do her X-ray. Do you think you can figure it out?"

[dickthegrouch]

10. Just sit her in the waiting room

Since there are no acceptable staff, she can wait forever.

My county requires masks in medical settings for all staff, patients, and hangers on. (THANK YOU TO THE COUNTY). I belong to Kaiser Permanente HMO. Part of our membership consists of an agreement to follow the rules.
I think unmasked people within the facilities should simply be ignored; the same way they are ignoring the prominent signs on the way in reminding them they MUST wear masks.
I witnessed exactly that in the pharmacy the other day as an idiot was loudly complaining about having waited for an hour. Someone finally told him to get a clue, and fulfill his agreement to follow the rules. He didn’t ask which rules? He knew.

[johnp3907]

11. Hope the pain is excruciating.

[AverageOldGuy]

12. What if . . .

You had called a big Black guy x-ray tech????

[progressoid]

13. I know someone who used to schedule appts for a large med system

She often had people request "American only" Doctors.

Or would immediately say, "no" to any provider whose name wasn't northern European sounding.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. I'm a retired EMT

Ran rescue for 14 yrs in a rural Virginia county.

.Minor car wreck. The guy from the wreck was in our ambulance another EMT was checking him out.

Another of our EMTs - Black guy - climbed into the ambulance to get a splint. The guy being treated shouted “That n####r better not touch me.”


I got out, told a deputy what happened. Two deputies arrested the asshole. Judge fined him $1,000 for abuse of emergency medical personnel.

[ecstatic]

22. Pleasantly surprised to hear that he was arrested and fined. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

33. This was in a small rural county . . .

. . . where all the deputies know all the medics and they don't tolerate anyone screwing with us.

I've told this story to medics and police from big cities and towns, all of them say the same thing -- don't mess with our medics.

[Laffy Kat]

37. I used to be an EMT, too.

Love to hear the bigot got arrested and fined. You love to see them put in their place.

[Chellee]

16. I sincerely hope...

that whatever it was is broken, heals crooked, and causes her pain every day for the rest of her miserable existence.

[hamsterjill]

17. An asshole being an asshole.

Good for you for the way you handled it.

[Shellback Squid]

18. I had a similar event in the car business, client asked to be called via email

I used my full name at introduction, (Spanish name) and she hung up and emailed for a white European salesperson

[Joinfortmill]

28. Jeezus. Horrible person.

[Turbineguy]

19. When I was having surgery, they asked me if I was allergic to anything.

"Republicans."

Later on I found out that the Surgeon was more of a liberal than I.

[ecstatic]

21. I'm curious about which insurer she has

I hope I'm not paying for her bullshit.

[Laffy Kat]

38. It's Kaiser.

For the most part, we have a diverse and decent membership from all walks of life. This just doesn't happen. Usually.

[Talitha]

23. Wow - - - just Wow.

[markodochartaigh]

24. The hospital

I worked for for three decades had an absolutely spineless, or maybe they agreed with the patients, administration. Sometimes we would have patients who didn’t want a nurse or nurse aide of a particular ethnicity, didn’t want a male nurse, etc. Administration absolutely never backed an employee up on anything whatsoever so it was generally agreed that if a patient who was prejudiced against a certain group didn’t have to interact with someone of that group it was all for the best. It was unusual for them to ask for a particular "classification" of doctor but it did occur. One time a patient insisted on a Black doctor. There wasn't a Black doctor in the e.r. that day. So we had a Tamil doctor see the patient. He was very athletic and spent a lot of time playing soccer in the Dallas sun. His skin was much darker than the patient's skin. The patient had absolutely no understanding that his "Black" doctor was as Caucasian as the physician assistant of Norwegian descent. We had a lot of Malayali staff members and very frequently we had patients get upset that they didn't speak Spanish. We had Muslim nurses in hijabs and patients often thought that they were sisters.

[Joinfortmill]

29. Haha. Crazy.

[AllyCat]

25. We do not accommodate such requests in the facility

I work in either. You did the right thing, and I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

[Joinfortmill]

26. Good riddance, I say.

[SalamanderSleeps]

27. Social media makes everything real. eom

[Botany]

30. I just spent a little less than a week in the Hospital

Good luck if this idiot wants any kind of health care without any foreigners. @ least 50 %
of the people taking care of me were not born in America or were 1st generation Americans.
From Africans, people from the Caribbean, Asians … both of the Drs. doing the scope work
down my throat were either from Indian had or Paki backgrounds, I had a Ukrainian nurse, a Polish
G.P., and an Irish guy doing something.

[OC375]

31. How Rude

People quit caring about manners sometime around COVID and it never recovered. Always been racists but they use to stay closeted with the blatant stuff, so I guess we lost that too. I really don’t want everyone’s authentic them. I prefer liars with manners sometimes so I can just do my job and live life.

[KentuckyWoman]

35. I have said multiple times

They need to get Dr. Oz or Ben Carson to start up MAGA only hospitals and medical centers around the US of A where these folks can go without any concerns of those "damn ferinners". Only white male doctors and only female nurses in white dresses and hats, no insurance - only cash up front. If you get cancer they give you daily prayer vigils and horse paste. No masks in surgery, no anesthesia, no antibiotics, no vaccines, no pills except vitamins and Jesus. No ERs because life and death is only up to God.

Once you sign up for the MAGA hospital you are put on the list ineligible for treatment at one of those godless commie fake doctors who hate Jesus and pump everyone full of poison.

I am not being at all sarcastic.

[fujiyamasan]

41. Remove these idiots from the rest of the risk pool

Make them ineligible for Medicare and Medicaid,

The rest of our premiums would suddenly fall!

[chouchou]

36. I thought I had heard everything. Boy..I put those people (We're talking about)...

...not just racist but dead-ass-stupid. I know "Everybody serves a purpose" I'm starting to wonder!

[Totally Tunsie]

39. It makes one wonder what would happen if they ever needed a blood transfusion.

[misanthrope]

40. "Those types" tend to be authoritarian in proclivity

So let a doctor explain it to her.

[Skittles]

42. when I contracted for a major telephone company

my boss, responding to a complaint, wanted to know why a reported issue had not been resolved.......I dug up the printout from the bottom of the pile of my assigned cases and showed him where the person had literally demanded not to speak to a black customer service rep (note - it was noted as a warning to reps about his assholery, not a directive).........my boss said, yeah, well, get to it as soon as you can - then he put it back into the bottom of the pile