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11th Sep 2016

This man’s reaction to hearing racists converse in a café is winning the internet

A pretty unusual move...

Rebecca Keane

He killed them with kindness.

Sometimes when you overhear conversations and you don’t agree with the person talking,  it’s hard to know what to do.

Many of us will walk on and try to ignore the person talking but at times it can be especially difficult.

Annoyed

One man who experienced this sticky situation in particular was Australian man Jarred Wall.

Jarred was having lunch in a café when he overheard two ladies talking about Aboriginal Australians in a very derogatory manner.

But according to him, instead of lashing out at the women talking

“Went out for lunch today. Food was great but to our misfortune we inadvertently heard two elderly  ladies, seated next to us, chatting about aboriginals. The conversation was less than distasteful with  words like assimilation thrown around willy nilly.

“I could have unleashed a tirade of abuse but that  wouldn’t have helped. Instead, I did something nice  and bought them a pot of tea and left a little note on  the receipt. Maybe these ladies will be a little wiser  and think before they speak. Hopefully there won’t be  a next time!”

People in the comments of the post praised Jarred for his patience at listening to the women.