If they called it Ban Gay Ways, now that would have been controversial.
So a persons name can now be considered offensive.
They aren't though, they care only about themselves and their little echo chambers and who is cool. If someone up sets the boat the type of people you are referring to will destroy them socially and personally because they are different. They are a minority of overly sensitive feckwits, but they are also rich feckwits and will be the leaders of tomorrow, nobody wants that.
Genuine question - who's the 'they' you're talking about?
I'm talking about the types that Pogue Mahone in the OP is talking about, the over sensitive and easily offended people who are also trying to fight other peoples battles for them. Then you get the more political types of people like that who are called social justice warriors who are the feck wits I was referring to, this behaviour is not about compassion, they genuinely do not care about anyone but themselves. They also completely lack empathy, there was a man called Sam Biddle who works as a journalist who called for bringing back bullying because he hates nerd culture.
This guy should be waterboarded.
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What's wrong with that? Guy had it coming.
He deserved to get slapped down for behaving like a drunken ass but fired from his job? Seems excessive to me.
Been a highly persistent bigot on television seems like reasonable grounds.
Bigot? More of a boor than a bigot, surely?
In this instance I don't think it's unreasonable for a business to make that judgement. I wouldn't have been up in arms if they hadn't either though. And sexist behaviour is bigoted is it not? I would've certainly thought so.
I'm not sure he's even being sexist. He's just recycling a crass meme based on being as offensive as possible in the background of a live to air broadcast. The bit about her being lucky not to get a dildo in her ear was referencing something that happened to a male presenter.
I would fully expect to be sacked for that (I work in public service which would obviously add to the context) but maybe things are more sensitive in Australia, which is something I never thought I'd say.
I thought that clip was the counter-argument to this thread.
When I read the thread title I begun frantically searching Youtube to find that clip before I read your post!
No worries, mate.It's really a cnutish, feckboy move to go way out of your way to get someone fired on the basis of a remark made elsewhere.
It's difficult to say, the employer might bind employees to certain conduct agreements that apply even outside of working hours. We should also consider that he is probably part of a team and many of his colleagues may not want to work with an unrepentant boor.
I do think the employer was justified in its actions. Probably. Just think it was an incredibly cnutish thing to do by whoever brought it to their attention. Nobody needed to know what his job is/was. Not as though he was wearing a "Hydro One" t-shirt!
He was being petulant and silly to a news reporter after a few bevvies, I doubt any of his colleagues don't wanna work with him anymore cos of that. I understand the company is trying to protect their image, still feels very harsh.
Maybe he's petulant and silly at work and this was a handy excuse to get rid.
Maybe his boss is a woman?
That is certainly true; however, in this day and age it doesn't take long for clips like that to go viral and sooner or later someone you know will see it. Anonymity is a rare commodity now.
You Canadians seem an uptight bunch.
 I guess we can give them some slack, seeing as they are students, full of idealism and activism and not yet tainted by life nor having to deal with it.
Meh. Standard fare, really. Most professional workplaces don't allow bare shoulders and spaghetti straps, either. This school is simply preparing kids for the real world.
That's kind of segueing into a different point really - one that I totally agree with you on, and one that is a really interesting debate (as opposed to the UKIP-type baiting 'P.C Gone Mad'.
