I maintain a certain amount of authority while serving in my little, rural municipality. My office is my castle and if I don't like your language, or if I'm threatened, or if I'm insulted, I'll simply throw you out.
It doesn't happen often. I work for a truly caring, generous and mostly respectful community. But every now and then racism rears its head, or a finger gets pointed perilously close to my face, or the business becomes entangled with the personal. You will not use the n-word in my office, or complain about "those" people implying all kinds of stereotypical traits depending on where in the world the neighbors you are complaining about came from, or suggest that I can [insert verb] with my [insert noun]. You will be locked out.
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