While I hate to be “that person” who brings up privilege, I feel like I nonetheless have to say that your suggestions for dealing with the election are ignorant and, well…privileged.

It’s easy for a white person, especially easy for cis-gendered, straight, Christian white males – to go back to their daily lives post-election. It’s easy for them to generally ignore politics as a whole, to not care. Why? Because they’re generally not going to be affected by it. Likewise, it’s easy for you to say that, “tomorrow will be just another day,” because of your privilege – because it really *will* be just another day for you.

However, that is not the case for many, many people.

As some of the above comments have already pointed out, violence against minorities has significantly increased since Trump was elected. People really are fearing for their lives and for the lives of their children. What if there was threatening, anti-American abuse spray-painted on the school your child went to? What if other children started picking on your child, saying that because of the new president people like him will have to move back to where they came from? What if while on public transportation, a man out-of-the-blue groped you saying that “these belong to me now” because “Trump said so”? These are examples of REAL things that have happened to people in America. How would you feel if they happened to you?

No one can argue that Trump isn’t a racist, sexist, etc. etc. So if someone has the ability to overlook that, to vote for him DESPITE all that, then they’re privileged. And, you know what, they’re also likely unconsciously biased, and thus a little racist. Sure, they would never say something racist out loud (hopefully), but they have shown through their actions that the basic safety of minorities is less important to them than their own needs, say, for economic change. If someone can be as publicly racist as Trump and STILL get that many votes to win the presidency, then yes, 50% of the country absolutely is racist. Maybe it’s more racist than we thought.

Finally a comment that makes sense.

Well, as you can see from the comments, some very real fear!

All I can do is sit back, keep my fingers crossed that it won’t be that bad, wish nothing but the best to ‘everyone’ in the US, and be glad I live in Canada!

You are right. This has become so personal to all of us, on both sides. How do you handle it when someone insists on telling you their political positions in detail when you completely disagree? We’re not going to calm down any time soon. Yet a good boss could try to set the tone that no matter our politics we’re going to continue to respect each other, keep politics out of it, and still work together for the goals of our company.

Nobody called you anything. If anyone calls you a deplorable at work, ask them to please stop. Otherwise I’m not sure what your point is.

I’m not sure what you want to discuss at work. You don’t really know if your coworker follows the news. Work is not a place for these types of discussions. It’s for getting work done. You sound more like you want to pick a fight. Your statements about racism, misogyny, and ignorance have no place in the workplace.

You’re very close. We’ll save tons on food stamps after poor people die from lack of care. Unemployment will be much less when we draft all the young men to fight ISIS.

People are scared for real reasons. I’m not sure I will live through this because of my health and changes in Medicare. I would really like to live in Switzerland like EHRL.

That seems off-base. Many of us have plenty of experience with losing an election. We are really worried about losing the rights of women and minorities, the loss of health care for millions, the denial of climate change, the possibility of war. I am not exaggerating but just taking him at his word from the campaign trail.

Actually he was, many times, starting in the 70s when he was sued by Nixon’s administration for housing discrimination.