Posted on 09/16/2018 8:59:49 AM PDT by McQ444
A senior Scotland Yard office is facing losing his job after using the term 'whiter than white' in a briefing with colleagues being faultless in their inquiries.
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They don’t have free speech in Britain.
Stick a fork in the UK, they’re done.
He should have said “More whatever color snow is than whatever color snow is”.
Probably talking about his laundry. Nothing surprises me any more.
Someone needs to write a White Paper on this.
Political correctness destroys lives.
Scotland Yard overreacted. Someone senior must have been in a black mood.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/black-mood “a very unhappy feeling:”
She was black as the night
Louie was whiter than white
Danger danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love overnight
They still play that and Black Bettie out here in the Ozarks
Politically incorrect on the coasts though
That officer sounds like white trash. But situations like this are usually not as clear as black and white. Often, the white-collar supervisors will attempt a whitewash. Sometimes, they’ll even tell little white lies.
(OK, I’m done. I raise the white flag.)
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Usually, a manager cannot just fire people willy-nilly.
You need to have a paper trail, that shows a pattern of offenses, followed by a pattern of retraining opportunities.
There must be no mediator or employee representative here.
There is certainly no evidence of forgiveness and the ability to learn from past mistakes. This cannot continue without being challenged. I predict some humongous Class Action Lawsuits from people who refuse to be tarred, feathered and pushed out the door w/o due process PC or not.
You think we do here?
“That officer sounds like white trash.”
How is that?
Not quite sure how you make the giant leap you make that it was uttered by white trash.
So any term is racist now except “Black is Beautiful” or “Black Lives Matter” and the OK sign is racist but raising a black fist during the National Anthem is freedom of speech.
And that was nearly twenty years ago.
I'm retired now and use it all the time.
And I don't live in Cleveland.
Not according to the big social media companies.
Better arrest all the makers of washing powder like Tide, and especially all Clorox products!
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