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Zedonra posted...

I dislike people who play around at work so I'm glad they're fired.

This.

Its pretty stupid to do from any angle you look. Looks bad on the company. Its something they simply shouldn't be doing.

I watched the video and in the audio theres no intentional racism I can hear. The "joke" is that hes being sentenced to a hanging, ie wild west style. They also call him Jimmy gallows i believe, a reference to gallows, which has no racial significance. Everyone hangs on the gallows. In popular culture anyway, there is no such sentencing in a lynching. Just racist bullshit.

I would think that if they were dismissed expressly because of racism, they could go to court and maybe win.

But in the end they should be fired for having a viral video of them fucking off at work with a hate symbol involved.

Also it should be understood that symbolism is real, and for African Americans in particular a NOOSE has nothing but very negative connotations. No one should be fucking around with nooses, fake or real, if they arent filming a movie or aren't a literal hangman. Theres just no need.

The swastika is an ancient symbol but its universally accepted as wrong to display due to negative historical connotations. It really should be the same for a noose. It isnt necessary to display a noose in any normal day to day business. So don't do it!

In the end it seems to me that it was a distasteful inside joke between coworkers with not enough context, not intentionally racist. By all means it could have been, im just saying there's no proof of their intention other than role-playing a typical, non lynch mob hanging. Those idiots are screwed because i doubt most people are going to look at it logically.

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