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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Could someone please explain to me why it matters how or why or who Peters used the n word? it's all repugnant and racist and should result in your instant termination, walking into a room with or without a black team member and saying 'turn that 'n' music off' should get you fired, it makes no difference who put the music on or whether the word was specifically directed at anyone.
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I can't answer why people are hung up on how the word was used, but I'm not so sure I agree that someone should immediately be fired from a current job for saying something racist at a former job irrespective of how much time has gone by.
Does this only apply to racism? If someone said something sexist 10 years ago, should they be fired from their current job? This seems like a very impractical approach.
I fully agree that firing him with cause from that job at the time should have been an option for the Blackhawks organization, but 10 years and multiple organizations later?