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It's not illegal for the author to be racist. It's rather illegal for an employer to be racist in their workplace. Yes, I'd rather there were a better whistle

• dos1 14y ago
  Imagine you hear a story about a guy whose house gets burned to the ground. All of his possessions are destroyed. My thought is that you'd naturally feel sympathy for the victim. Now say you found out the victim was himself a serial arsonist who had burned down other houses. Do you still feel as bad for him? In my opinion there is no difference between that story and this one. A racist man is angry that another racist man made racist comments toward him.
  • Apocryphon 14y ago
    The analogy doesn't hold up unless he actually expressed racist views in the workplace. He's not a serial arsonist, he's just a guy who builds bonfires in the privacy of his home.
• ucee054 14y ago
  I second this. By the way, the law works through deterrence. Say this is a douchebag workplace mistreating a douchebag employee, and they get punished. Now they serve as example to the next douchebag workplace, who hesitate before mistreating their employee, who may not be a douchebag.