What you should ask yourself is why are you creating an artificial line of what 'level' of racism does or does not deserve empathy from people it doesn't affect?
No, you're applying it to them and condensing their entire life down to the fact they may be racist (a state to which their are many degrees). That ignores all the other shit they have done in their life, and forces you to discard their worth as a human being. Not only is this wasteful for society, it forces those who hold slightly racist views into a corner. Wonder why democrats can't win in the south, its because of preachy norther democrats who criticize racist southern republicans more than bring them into the fold and show them the benefits of being more tolerant.
No part of calling out racism online is being hateful.
Nah.
I love holding people accountable for the stupid stuff they say publicly. Hey!
What is this? People calling out racists online when they're being racist isn't some radical act, and racists don't need protection from this, let alone unspoken protection of their freedom to be aggressively dehumanizing pieces of shit online because we don't want these stupid people to be judged for their own stupid actions.
I think losing your job is a far better lesson than any tips you might pick up at a mandatory night school class.
Depends on the region the organization is in. There are plenty of places in America where that language is pretty standard. As we have seen recently, plenty of public administrators have escaped firing for saying racist things because the community was such that they did not demand the removal of the administrator.
You don't really belive that. You just don't think people should be fired for saying racist things. I'm sure you wouldn't say anything if someone were talking about how hot and sexual little kids are... you wouldn't care if they got fired. Its just you don't put that much weight on racial outbursts as say the musings of a pedophile.
No they aren't. There's a difference between calling someone a word and being willing to lynch them. One of those is worse than the other.
My god.
It is not a power. I posted an example of a racist and how his beliefs affected people and websites like the one in the OP remove people from their jobs before I have to interact with them. These people are obliterating their own lives by posting racist things that anyone can view. I have no sympathy for them.
How does that fit what is happening here? Are we supposed to mollycoddle these racists until they are not racist anymore?
Now it comes out. "Slightly racist"? Go read the OP again and come back when you're done, tell me what's slightly racist about any of those posts. Ye gods.
Too fucking bad, they should have thought about that before spewing hateful shit on a public platform like Twitter or Facebook. I also don't care if they become more bitter or whatever, their level of hatred and bitterness is already unacceptable.
