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[–]panorama 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wow. Now that's uncalled for! There is a generation gap here for certain.

I asked why the user holds the opinions that a person should lose their job

if it gets out that they are a racist. That phrasing struck me.

Hey, it's your future. I'm just trying to understand the perspective that one should lose their income a/o social standing, for words, for opinions - not actions. I assume not even expressed on the job. IME, for most people, it used to take an arrest or altercation to get fired. I don't have kids and am unfamiliar with the FIRE THEM mindset I've seen from some genderist activists and some others of the generations after my own.

And FYI that incident happened 60 years ago. Society changes.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can I ask, if a police officer has social media, and their bios say “death to n***ers” or something with that sentiment, you have no problem with him/her being a police officer? He/she doesn’t get to choose what cases they work or what calls they respond to, so what happens when someone who thinks “death to black people” is sent to the home of a black person? What do you think would happen if the black person called, and the perpetrator was white? You really think that someone who has disregarded the lives of black people would come to their defense? We already have seen what covert racist cops have done to poc, now you’re saying they should be free to be open about it, as long as they don’t get caught causing harm? It used to be acceptable to be openly racist- there’s a reason that’s not the case anymore. The KKK didn’t always wear hoods.

The “if it gets out that they are racist” was put there because we can’t and shouldn’t just assume someone is racist, we can only know it when we’re shown it.