Federal jury rules it's illegal to use the N-word while at work even if you're black

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 9/3/13 | ap

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And these too....

[albie]

Can I still say “brown bag”?

[Bubba_Leroy]

But nigga and creepy ass cracka are not racist.

If Saint Treyvon said it, it must be ok.

[Uncle Miltie]

Is “Creepy” “A$$” or “Cracka” illegal or protected speech?

It’s so hard to keep up now that the Bill Of Rights is Color-Seeing.

[Bubba_Leroy]

[Uncle Miltie]

Personally, I want to charge $47 each time someone uses the word “like” in a sentence, like, more than once.

[Uncle Miltie]

With all these Speech Codes, we’ll have to be pretty niggardly with vocabulary usage.

[kabumpo]

Yes, you are correct, but it is Nazis, with no apostrophe, not Nazi’s.

[DannyTN]

"How is it costing the city? “STRIVE Harlem” sounds like an independent company he founded?"

You're right. I scanned it and saw the words "New York City" and jumped to a bad conclusion. It is a private firm. That's better.

[GeronL]

ok, I will try to remember

[fwdude]

Can I still say “brown bag”?

Are you kidding? You can't even say Black Hole without a Marxist getting their panties in a wad.

[tacticalogic]

Griftin da griftas.

[Vaquero]

It’s unconstitutional, plain and simple.

Which Supreme Court is going to say that? Not the one who recently called Obamacare a tax. Our system of checks and balances has been compromised

[DannyTN]

"My vocabulary contains a hundred degrading slurs. From a-hole to Zebra a two colored horse. Will it cost me if I use any one of them?"

It might if you use it in a business setting on an employee.

"Why should the word Nigga cost someone $250.000 when jigaboo , cracker ,Honkey ,or Jitterbug costs them nothing? Who decides the cost of each word?/ This is BS."

That, I agree with. I see no justification for a $250,000 award, just for a name calling. Unless there was more to the case.

And what about only slightly degrading terms, like "whiner", or "lazy" or "not a team player" or "no initiative". Words that could easily end up in a formal job performance review.

The balance of freedom of speech vs discriminatory or abusive work relationships and workplace harassment is a precarious one.

[PATRIOT1876]

Cool!

That will eliminate 99% of all rap “music’!

[mjp]

dat be raysis

[Prospero]

Where does federal discrimination law supersede the 1st amendment. If you can't say "f*ck," you can't say "f*ck the government," as that subversive Abbie Hoffman used to say.

And "STRIVE Harlem" sounds like an NGO, probably one of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, funded by state and/or federal government.

When these were snaked out in North Carolina people found out these kinds of little launderettes were costing the taxpayers nearly a billion every year.

When some legislators claimed they were fire departments, and such, someone finally got a list. Top of that list was a PO Box called "101 Black Men of Charlotte."

To this day, no one knows what that NGO was supposed to be.

[Navy Patriot]

So does the Negro get to pay damages to the Black, or do the NY taxpayers get to pay damages to the Negro?

[KittenClaws]

Where does the second amendment enter into this?

Since when can a word be illegal?

This is not the same as yelling FIRE! in a crowded theater. Nothing prevents a person from simply using the word “fire” in a theater, after all.

[KittenClaws]

LOL! 1st amendment I am obviously having a senior moment.