I need to get this off my chest before I burst a blood vessel.
I have just been in my local tesco express. While I was queuing I noticed a poster for a fund raising campaign for a child who has a life threatening disease. I do not personally know the family but most of my friends do so I will rant here and not upset them unduly. The cashier who served me notice I was looking at the poster and commenter how sad the situation was and how she had been told some details of the child/illness. I replied how terrible it was that the family had to ask for money to save their child and what an awful ordeal/task that was. At this point the man in the next till cut in and said 'they are the wrong nationality that's why!' I was a but confused and replied that yes, the treatment required is only available abroad then he said 'no no the nhs would do it for that kid if he was foreign' then he ranted at length along those lines. I am fuming. What he did, whilst at work, was to use the plight of a sick child to justify a racist/xenophobic tirade to total strangers. I told him he was completely wrong and left but I'm just fuming.
I am thinking I will make a serious complaint about this. The xenophobia is one thing but using the child's campaifn as a vessel for his bile seemed so much worse.
What does mn think?