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I don't disagree with you about the absence of 'the perfect liberal' or the sexist requirement for female drivers or the lack of protection for non-Irish national workers here. But none of these change the fundamental issue.It's irrational, not racist. At worst it is xenophobic, but even that's a huge leap.
My objection is to the throwing around of racism at each and every turn. My objection is that there is no perfect liberal out there who doesn't at some point in time display the good old human trait of being irrational and making a choice against the non-national. Not one.
Just because there are times where a person has a preference and comfort with a more known set of circumstances doesn't mean they're a racist. The poster isn't saying send all foreigners home or white Irish only taxi drivers, it was just that in their experience (what else can they go on?) they've had a better and more efficient service when they'd used Irish drivers and so they have a preference for that.
Heck even the socially conscious unions haven't exactly been too forthcoming in protecting the foreign national worker rights of late in favour of their Irish colleagues. So much so many foreign national workers have had to set up their own unions.
How many female customers have experience of all male drivers in Dublin? Zero.
To make assumptions the assault potential of every driver based upon their gender on the experience of a very small number of events is sexist.
To ask for a taxi driver based on race rather than based on abilities is racist.