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Topic	So Apparently It's Now Illegal To Say "Illegal Alien" In New York
adjl 10/01/19 12:27:00 PM #88:	aDirtyShisno posted... adjl posted... aDirtyShisno posted... Specifically in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations. New York City has declared using the phrase illegal alien can be considered workplace harassment even if talking about illegal immigrants in general and not referring to any particular employees, if an employee becomes afraid from possible discrimination. Go back to your country, threatening to call ICE, and other similar phrases could also constitute harassment even if the immigration status of an unlawful immigrant is not in dispute. This really shouldn't be particularly objectionable. It's just spelling out something that most would already know to be true. You could already make a workplace harassment case off of such comments even without them being explicitly spelled out, this is simply a matter of making it clear to the dickwads who consider this acceptable conduct that it's not. If Im at work and I see a news report about Trump finally building his wall and I say something like Yeah, no more illegal aliens coming in that way I should not be guilty of a crime just because my coworker broke the law when entering the country. If you're doing anything to make your workplace uncomfortable for your coworkers, then yes, you absolutely should be guilty of a crime (or misdemeanour or whatever workplace harassment qualifies as because I can't be bothered to look it up). That's what workplace harassment is. Now, in all likelihood, talking about illegal immigration in an empirical, third-person manner like that isn't likely to make anyone feel harassed enough to file a harassment complaint. You would therefore probably be fine in the example you gave (well, aside from that being a pretty contrived, awkward sentence, but that's beside the point). Understanding whether or not you're committing some form of harassment requires you to understand your audience, so if you're cognizant of how your audience feels, you probably won't have a problem. Noop_Noop posted... More like adjl than anything, but at least he doesn't write 3 page responses that nobody reads and occasionally he reads the posts he is responding to. Good lord you're butthurt. This is hilarious. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:928188923] in So Apparen... [t:78054767]...</cite> <quote>aDirtyShisno posted...</cite> <quote>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>aDirtyShisno posted...</cite> <quote>Specifically in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations. New York City has declared using the phrase illegal alien can be considered workplace harassment even if talking about illegal immigrants in general and not referring to any particular employees, if an employee becomes afraid from possible discrimination. Go back to your country, threatening to call ICE, and other similar phrases could also constitute harassment even if the immigration status of an unlawful immigrant is not in dispute.</quote> This really shouldn't be particularly objectionable. It's just spelling out something that most would already know to be true. You could already make a workplace harassment case off of such comments even without them being explicitly spelled out, this is simply a matter of making it clear to the dickwads who consider this acceptable conduct that it's not.</quote> If Im at work and I see a news report about Trump finally building his wall and I say something like Yeah, no more illegal aliens coming in that way I should not be guilty of a crime just because my coworker broke the law when entering the country.</quote> If you're doing anything to make your workplace uncomfortable for your coworkers, then yes, you absolutely should be guilty of a crime (or misdemeanour or whatever workplace harassment qualifies as because I can't be bothered to look it up). That's what workplace harassment is. Now, in all likelihood, talking about illegal immigration in an empirical, third-person manner like that isn't likely to make anyone feel harassed enough to file a harassment complaint. You would therefore probably be fine in the example you gave (well, aside from that being a pretty contrived, awkward sentence, but that's beside the point). Understanding whether or not you're committing some form of harassment requires you to understand your audience, so if you're cognizant of how your audience feels, you probably won't have a problem. Noop_Noop posted...</cite> <quote>More like adjl than anything, but at least he doesn't write 3 page responses that nobody reads and occasionally he reads the posts he is responding to.</quote> Good lord you're butthurt. This is hilarious. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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