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Originally Posted by Savvy27
I'm genuinely curious if there are a lot of people that would agree with people being fired with cause for those types of past actions with different organizations. That seems like a bad idea to me, but I'm open to hearing other views.
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I think you need to define "those type of past actions." Let's not downplay what Peters did so we can try to find a false equivalent with something else. This wasn't an off-coloured joke, or some language that's only recently become charged. This wasn't the work of a naive kid who was trying to be edgy before he knew the word was truly wrong. You can't even blame culture or upbringing and times changing. It was 2008 and a 45 year old piece of #### directed the N word at a black person under his authority. This isn't a slippery slope of people being fired for liking Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure despite the use of "fag" in the movie or having to worry because you read To Kill a Mockingbird outloud in class. This was just pure unadulterated racism with a word that everyone knew was off-limits to Peters. No one needs to worry if they haven't yelled the N word at a black person.
Actions have consequences. As far as I'm concerned it's unjust that he is being fired because he simply never should have had the job in the first place. He should have had his career ruined when he had Aliu sent down without truly trying to rectify the situation he caused.