Fired for racist Facebook remarks

Slootvreter said:
I totally disagree. There could be many other ways to deal with this. It's not fair to ruin someone's life for something as stupid as this. You seem to be personally insulted by her post as well :wtf:

It's starting to look like black folk are just waiting for someone to make this mistake and then bask in the glory of the consequences this person faces.
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Slootvreter said:
Yet you think it was appropriate for her to get fired over a word on social media?
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Lets look at it from another angle.

If you were a black person who had to work with her, taking into account what she said and the fact that she used one of the biggest megaphones to do it. How would you feel, working with someone who uses an ethnic slur to refer to black people? A term that's associated with Apartheid era violence, amongst other things.

Calling someone a racially offensive term whether you're in your private capacity or at work doesn't change the fact that it is your point of view toward same race. Its not the same as shouting "jou ma se po3s" to the same taxi driver

What would you have wanted the company to do? You do not seem to comprehend that a company's image is created and sustained by the people it employs (well, mostly). What would you think would happen if Ericsson lost a a billion dollar contract to Huawei because the issuer of the contract felt the Ericsson seems to support racism?

edit: disclaimer, I'm not black
 
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YingYang said:
Lets look at it from another angle.

If you were a black person who had to work with her, taking into account what she said and the fact that she used one of the biggest megaphones to do it. How would you feel, working with someone who uses an ethnic slur to refer to black people? A term that's associated with Apartheid era violence, amongst other things.

Calling someone a racially offensive term whether you're in your private capacity or at work doesn't change the fact that it is your point of view toward same race. Its not the same as shouting "jou ma se po3s" to the same taxi driver

What would you have wanted the company to do? You do not seem to comprehend that a company's image is created and sustained by the people it employs (well, mostly). What would you think would happen if Ericsson lost a a billion dollar contract to Huawei because the issuer of the contract felt the Ericsson seems to support racism?

edit: disclaimer, I'm not black
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She uttered the dreaded word in a fit of rage, I'm pretty sure that's not how she normally addresses people or how her conversation flows. And bringing back apartheid...oh please stop with that schit already. It will never pass because they so love clinging to it. I am certain that there are other ways of dealing with this kind of thing than to ruin someone's life.
 
Slootvreter said:
She uttered the dreaded word in a fit of rage, I'm pretty sure that's not how she normally addresses people or how her conversation flows. And bringing back apartheid...oh please stop with that schit already. It will never pass because they so love clinging to it. I am certain that there are other ways of dealing with this kind of thing than to ruin someone's life.
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Sure, she hurled the apartheid-era slur and "they" are the ones who so love clinging to apartheid.
 
Slootvreter said:
She uttered the dreaded word in a fit of rage, I'm pretty sure that's not how she normally addresses people or how her conversation flows. And bringing back apartheid...oh please stop with that schit already. It will never pass because they so love clinging to it. I am certain that there are other ways of dealing with this kind of thing than to ruin someone's life.
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Dis vrydag, ou skotie en ek wil nie argumenteer nie. Just playing devil's advocate. :twisted:

By the way she set herself up for bad news from the outset by not having her profile private :)
 
Garson007 said:
I can't believe people on here are defending this woman.
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You are missing the far bigger picture... it is less about defending her, most agree she should probably not have said it, but rather the double standards that exist and the seemingly different definitions on what is offensive.

Why exactly should "jou ma se p*es" be any less offensive than the use of the word k*ffir? Because someone said so. Because of the past? I watched an episode of Fawlty Towers yesterday and was appalled to hear them refer to "n*ggers" and "wogs" in a conversation Basil was having with the Major about Indian and West Indies cricket. Clearly it was not regarded as quite as insulting back then....

EDIT: Here it is with reference to them now censoring it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cist-lines-classic-Fawlty-Towers-episode.html
 
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