On Feb 20, 10:52 pm, "Robatoy"

Well, while we are doing a lot of things in the US, enjoying free
speech in the US, free speech about certain issues isn't one of them.
Under no circumstances can you make any type of racially related
remark unless you are a person of color. Chris Rock said it well
years ago on 60 Minutes when he pointed out to Ed Bradley that white
people didn't have freedom of speech because the could say what he
wanted to about black people, and anything he felt like about white
people, and he knew he wouldn't get in trouble.
But he also recognized that white people do not have that option; for
the whites, it is only safe to make fun of whites.

Dave Chapelle did a brilliant send up of this same thing, but as is
his habit, it was much more pointed at the hypocrisy. Carlos Mencius
has even done a great piece or two on this situation, ending that part
of his show with "if you white people think you have freedom of
speech, just go to work Monday morning and try to tell my jokes".

Here in the US, off color jokes about different subjects can get you
written up at work, and maybe cause loss of promotion, etc. But an
inappropriate reference to race, or an epithet that contains any kind
of racial reference, slur or otherwise can lead to termination if
spoken to the wrong party. Immediate termination. I have seen it
happen.

Worse for us small company owners, even after firing the offending
party, you have to pay for any bouts of depression or counseling the
offended party may have, and YOU as the employer will have to go to
(and pay for) sensitivity training.

And with our extremely litigious society you can bet that any number
of attorney vultures are circling overhead waiting for the briefest
smell of newly minted "he's a racist so you owe me" money.

I didn't write that last post condemning you as a racist. But here,
the written word is all we have. No "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" or
ironic smile to give the correct tone to the sentence can make things
misleading to those that read your written message.

No one lives without prejudice or preference. And I don't know anyone
so holy as to claim they dont' enjoy some kind of off color joke now
and then. But it has been years since I have seen the "n" word
written for all to see by caucausian. If you lived here and someone
saw that, they could literally, honestly, turn you in to your employer
(I know in your case you are self employed) and you could expect
termination. Could you fight it? You bet. Would you win? Don't
know.

One of the seminars put on by our small business coalitions addressed
this issue on point. On corporate America's side, they felt like
discovering a slur should lead to termination. Why? To establish and
adversarial relationship with the offending party, sending a clear
message to the offending party and the rest of the employees that such
a thing won't be tolerated. Or as one older gentleman put it, I would
rather be sued for one wrongful termination that I could defend, than
to have a class action suit from 50 employees that said I tolerated
that kind of behavior.

Re/reading your post, I'm not really sure who you were railing out
against in the first paragraph. It sounds like (don't get more ****ed
off here, I may just be having a blockhead moment) that you are
thinking that someone is going to enslave the world and work with the
Jews to form a way to rule it after they wipe out those in their way
by using our troops to do so. Yes? No? I understood the rest of
the post, and as normal most of it made good sense.


BTW, the very strong disappointment with the US government applies
mainly to the current bunch. We all know why.

Yup... I sure do. Me included.

But you have to know that even though tearing down America is an
international sport enjoyed throughout the world by just about
everyone, no one enjoys tearing down America like Americans. It was
out sport long before others took it up as theirs. Watch our news.
Read out papers. Loathing of the government is a way of life here, no
matter whose party is in or out.

Robert