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I just love Andre Torrez' account of intolerance in the workplace. When I worked among the smug suburbanites at Boucher Communications I experienced the same sort of hypocricy first hand. For example, one day a Boomer-aged woman who proudly identified herself as Jewish came by my cube and asked, "Are you from Oklahoma?"
I answered yes.
"Are you a hick?"
"Excuse me!" I said in near-disbelief.
"Are you a hick?" she asked again, trying to supress a smirk.
I just looked at her icily, and, after a few moments, she made a half-hearted apology, but I wondered if she would think it was funny if I asked her if she was some anti-semitic slur.

That was hardly an isolated incident. I don't think I've been privy to so much outright bigotry as when I worked at that office, I'd hear all kinds of crapola about African-Americans, Muslims, South Asians, Latinos, and nearly every other group imaginable. I don't know if the people at Boucher are representative of the Philadelphia suburbs, but they certainly condoned bigotry.