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Forums - Politics Discussion - World gone mad: Music conductor fired for making racist joke even though "victim" says no.

Those damn Libs, first they get the blacks rights, let the gays marry, and now have the galll to do somethin' stupid. I bet its that gosh darn water, been turnin' the frogs gay since Bush did 9/11 to initiate the false flag attack on tha US. Origin-all-aye, meant for Cuba!

Srsy tho, I see what this has meant to do. Its not worth it. Especially if people start muddying the waters with this thread series



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While the guy getting fired is extremely stupid, why are you making it a political discussion? Where did it say a bunch of liberals got together and decided the guy should be fired?? Nowhere. The university got a complaint which was wrong and unfortunately they followed up with it and fired the guy. I'd expect any employer that thinks an employee is saying racist things to people would fire that worker. That seems pretty cut and dry. Only problem here is they took the woman's word which was wrong. Not a political/liberal thing at all.



As an Oregonian, I can we are an extremely politically correct state to the point of detriment. I saw a subway commercial where they labeled a 12" sandwhich as a "he" and one of my Facebook feminism friends reposted MASSIVELY over reacting. To me, there is more important topics to worry about than something as stupid and Irrelevent as that. I would have no offense if they labeled that sandwhich as a her.



I worked in retail for years and never got fired due to off-color humor. Why? Because I was intelligent enough to know what I can and can not say regardless of my personal feelings on the matter. This guy was obviously not as capable and he paid the price. If you don't want to lose your job, learn how to conduct yourself in today's politically correct climate.



Reginald? The absolute fuck?



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aLkaLiNE said:
As an Oregonian, I can we are an extremely politically correct state to the point of detriment. I saw a subway commercial where they labeled a 12" sandwhich as a "he" and one of my Facebook feminism friends reposted MASSIVELY over reacting. To me, there is more important topics to worry about than something as stupid and Irrelevent as that. I would have no offense if they labeled that sandwhich as a her.

Hahahahahahhahaahahha

 

Oh subway.



Lawlight what's the point of making this political? People can and will be dumb no matter what side of the political spectrum they're on



twintail said:
Because his conduct reflects on the institution he works for.

Seems easy enough to understand, though what's the joke?

The guy made a southern accent mocking his black friend's souther accent. The black friend said he was not being racist and that he mocks his English accent all the time.



mZuzek said:
aLkaLiNE said:
As an Oregonian, I can we are an extremely politically correct state to the point of detriment. I saw a subway commercial where they labeled a 12" sandwhich as a "he" and one of my Facebook feminism friends reposted MASSIVELY over reacting. To me, there is more important topics to worry about than something as stupid and Irrelevent as that. I would have no offense if they labeled that sandwhich as a her.

Lol that is awful.

I don't get why people are so fucking sensitive about stuff. Is it that hard to accept who you are, and be able to make fun of yourself? I know I have a black friend and everyone always makes racist jokes to him all the time, but really we only do it because he makes racist jokes about himself. Conversely, everyone else gets joked at for being fat, which again, doesn't matter because we can accept it and have fun with it... but nah, I guess this is too advanced of a concept for 21st century civilization. *sigh*

I agree that our species should more so focus on learning to accept ourselves and how we can improve from that point. I personally do not make any kind of racist jokes because race doesn't exist to me, period. Religion doesn't either, I don't care what you believe. I would rather knock someone for having twisted beliefs before anything else, regardless of race, religion, sex, and so on. But yeah, the Social justice warrior is becoming kind of dangerous and restrictive. I want absolute equality. The male white guy is being disciplined much harder than anyone else with the words that come out of their mouth. I also don't think it's fair for black people to refer to each other or a friend as nigga but a white person cannot also refer to a friend or brother in the same manner. That's the only example I use because most any other "race" (we are all humans, color don't mean shit) doesn't take the original meaning, slightly twist it and then own it ie. cracks/saltine, beaner, chink, roosky, towel head etc (I don't discriminate :) colors don't exist. Values do. And this is very important to understand, and what I believe is the next true step - we cannot decide ANYTHING based on how you look. It must be done on values)



mZuzek said:
aLkaLiNE said:

I would rather knock someone for having twisted beliefs before anything else, regardless of race, religion, sex, and so on. (...) colors don't exist. Values do.)

Eh, that's why we make jokes about our physical appearance. I'd much rather make a racist joke to a friend I know has fun with it, than make a joke about their beliefs, because that's when you're taking it into "values" territory and mocking them for something they have consciously chosen to believe in. 

Beliefs can be changed though, while race cannot. So, being racist is criticizing someone for something they cannot control.