My boss is a bit of a bigot. Unsurprisingly, he is pretty ignorant. We deal with photographs of various types of people in our office, and somewhere along the line he had one of a Sikh man wearing his turban and decided it was hilarious to make terrorist jokes about him. He's been doing it over the last few years, only he can't tell the difference between people of Middle-Eastern descent, the supposed target of his jokes, and Indians, South Asians, Armenians, Greeks, etc. He just sees a picture of someone with olive skin and straight black hair and starts going, "I'm going to blow this place to kingdom come!" To top it off, he uses an Indian accent when mimicking his supposed "terrorists" so the whole thing is just completely skewed. I've taken to yelling out,
"Those are Indians!" They are Hindus, not Muslim!!" But to him, he just doesn't know or care what the difference is and doesn't even realize what a fool he looks like for being not only such a blatant bigot, but because his bigotry is entirely misplaced. Aaargh!! I don't think sensitivity training would help this guy - he needs to go back to school first.
To make matters worse, ironically enough, he is Jewish....