Just referring to someone as Jewish is now an anti-Semitic slur? If he'd said "two Catholic ladies" would he still have his job?
“The trouble started when Tynan, 49, bumped into a real estate agent showing an apartment in his East Side apartment building to a doctor from NYU Medical Center.
The agent told Tynan, “Don’t worry, they are not Red Sox fans,” according to apartment-hunter Gabrielle Gold-von Simson. “I don’t care about that, as long as they are not Jewish,” was Tynan’s reply.”
I am a physician's assistant. I am no longer in an active practice and spend my time now as a full time freelance photographer. Recently I had a gig at homeless shelter and encountered a man with the disease that the guy in the movie “Elephant Man” had. He was a very nice guy, but very obviously disfigured by the tumors all over his exposed skin. Face, head, arms, hands, everywhere. Most of them were about the size of an olive, but a lot of them were as big or bigger than a golf ball. I was at the shelter to take pictures of a local beauty pageant winner as she visited with the children of the homeless. As we were were on the elevator, just me and the beauty pageant lady and one of the shelter employees I asked if they had seen the movie, and they said not. I explained in a very medical and non-judgmental way that the man we just saw had the disease the man in Elephant Man had suffered from, nerurofibromatosis. I pointed out in a very compassionate way that it could not be cured, and would progress until it caused his death. Seemed pretty informative and compassionate to me. I felt good that I could explain his problem to the people in the elevator since they were visibly shaken by his appearance. The next day I got a scathing email from the beauty pageant saying I had been insensitive in mentioning his disfigurement, and that they would no longer be able to use me to photograph appearances of pageant ladies since I could not be trusted not to offend those at a shoot!
My going rate is about $800 dollars a day and I have given these people a lot of hours and days of free shooting, plus handing out true photographic prints at an event and publishing the pictures on my website, to support them and the charities they work with. Imagine my surprise.
So, I guess if he had had no legs and I had mentioned how sad for a homeless person to have no legs that it would have offended them too.
I told my wife, I give up. I'm too old and set in my ways to be dealing with liberals and that's all I seem to encounter when I do one of these charity events.