Woman Fired For Racism on Facebook

This is why you have to be so careful what you post online. It's just like that kid a while ago who got kicked out of his private school because he posted about being gay. Sometimes I wonder if people realize that other people actually read what they write.

That being said, I think it's completely overreacting for the secret service to investigate this woman. She's a bigot, yeah, but if they investigate every person who mutters under their breath that Obama's a (n-word) or mentions the word assassination, I daresay they won't have much time to investigate real threats. Our tax dollars at work. And I have to wonder if this is a double standard, because you can't tell me no one mentioned assassination in the same sentence as George Bush while he was mucking around in office, and there wasn't a big stink about that. If Romney had won and a white person had bashed him, would it be a big deal?

And while I kind of understand that the company may have had to do something if they were getting harassed because this woman was an employee (which is just more stupidity, because it's not like they told her to post that), I have to wonder what she did that interferred with her ability to do her job. I kind of have feelings about employers using facebook to track and potentially fire their employees, which is part of the reason why I don't have one and have no interest in hearing about what my employees are up to on there.

 

When I was applying to the college of education at the university I attended in Florida, they came right out and told us that it wasn't permitted for teachers to have facebooks. And while I've never had an interest in it and so it didn't affect me, I can't help but agree with that. It potentially puts too much familiarity between teachers and students in a way I don't quite find appropriate. I think everyone, though, would benefit from thinking about what they're writing before posting it.

This lady is an idiot, but from what I've heard from friends and coworkers who were on facebook after the election, there was a lot of nastiness going around. So I find it hard to believe that what this woman said was so terrible and out of the norm that she had to be made an example of and that this had to turn out into such drama. Which doesn't excuse her, because she should know better than to have comments like that in writing, but isn't there anything better to report on?

 

I find this situation completely hysterical because of the fact. On Wednesday, my profesora was speaking to the class about the media and a high ranking general who helped get men out of Iraq and became the head of the CIA. Well, this man had an affair and it's all over the media. The FBI got involved and the details you can find on your own time. Anyway, The guy resigned. And again that same day, the kids at the Boys and Girls club were learning about Choices and how they have consequences which brought to attention Rihanna and Chris Brown. Again, the media.
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On topic, the things you put out there tend to catch up with you. Honestly, I think this serves the lady right. Although, I'm sure the media blew it way out of portion then normal. You shouldn't be able to say anything you want and expect little to no consequences. But whatever, I'm sure that there will always be racism and people ignorant enough to exploit it or anything else.

 

True, but it did leave positive marks on history.

That is what happens in a recession. High Unemployment rates. I'm sure that the country will balance itself out with or without Obama's interfering.

 

Well, the reason the secret service got involved was because of the word "assassination", not the word "nigger". Yet somehow I still doubt a white person calling for Romney's assassination would've gotten headlines like this broad has.

In a perfect world, it might be like that. Personally, I believe everyone is prejudiced in some way, in some degree or another.