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2015-05-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Toronto Man Fired After He Tries to Justify Vulgar TV Remark

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Posted by Fred 2015-05-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Potty mouth = job gone. Civil mouth = job kept.
Was a lesson learned here? Perhaps the self-destructive, potty mouthed, attention seeking "engineer" may actually obtain some maturity from the whole episode. But I doubt it.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2015-05-13 00:58|| 2015-05-13 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Lesson learned: second class citizens should watch their mouths.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-13 01:27|| 2015-05-13 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't know, it SOUNDS like the guy was off duty, ie, not working, when he made the lewd comments. He was at a sporting event. I'm not in favor of anyone shouting obscenities, period, but the proper penalty seems to be what the Maple Leafs sports team did -- banning him from all of their games for a year, not being summarily fired from his job.

His employer is Hydro One, an electrical utility, owned 100% by the province of Ontario, so this is, explicitly, a political reaction.

As much as I hate to claim that shouting obscenities should be protected under freedom of speech, I believe the media firestorm that erupts whenever a black/Democrat/feminist/Muslim is insulted/assaulted/killed is intrinsically (and deliberately) unfair.

I have trouble believing that he would have been punished in any way if he'd made the same kind of remarks to a (white) man. Then it would have just been considered 'poor taste', and ignored. But since he attacked a member of a 'protected class' he was given exemplary punishment. Just like back in the middle ages, if a peasant insulted an aristocrat.

Posted by dlr 2015-05-13 08:08|| 2015-05-13 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 He didn't belong to the right union.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-05-13 12:12|| 2015-05-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

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