I am going to make a suggestion that it most like not the generalization language which was used but the events which followed: > "A coworker was quick to crit

I am going to make a suggestion that it most like not the generalization language which was used but the events which followed: > "A coworker was quick to criticize the employee for using divisive rhetoric, igniting a firestorm of internal debate, with many jumping in to take sides. That same day, HR reprimanded the employee, who is Jewish, for using the word "Nazi" in the workplace." The disruption in the workplace is probably enough to get HRs attention. Now to answer your hypothetical question, I think the word Nazi has deeper connotations than the use of "gangster", but in either case I don't think the words should lead to termination. To quote a man I do not like at all, 'We have a snowflake generation', Dan Pena.