Posted on 12/17/2019 10:47:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Two Canadian men were fired from their jobs after one of them used the word Eskimo in a private conversation.
The two men were boarding a flight from Labrador to Newfoundland when Dave Beck said the word Eskimo.
His friend Thomas Scott responded by asking, Can you smell him?
The conversation was overheard by by Innu Nation member and former Labrador MP Peter Penashue and other passengers.
Beck and Scott, who worked primarily as plasterers and painters, had been working on a hotel renovation project overseen by Kankote Enterprises.
In spite of several years on the job, and being the only two Kankote employees at the remote Churchill falls, both men were fired and had their names dragged through mud reducing future job prospects, reports National File.
Beck pleaded for forgiveness in an extremely pathetic manner.
I know thats no excuse for the remarks I made, my words that hurt so many people, especially Indigenous people. Im not a racist. I would say culturally uneducated. Culturally illiterate, he told CBC.
Perhaps if the two had just blacked up like their Prime Minister instead of using a naughty word, they wouldnt have got into so much trouble.
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The short version of this story is Canada is controlled by venomous snowflakes who don’t believe in free speech and have thin skin similar to wet tissue paper.
The even shorter version requires them to be slapped silly.
Picked up a fella hitchhiking. Apache I believe. He noticed the bagged bottle of wine and asked whats that. Oh nothing I said just a bottle of wine I got for my wife . Good trade he said.
That was a racist joke. Back In The Bronx as a kid in the 50s where I came from all different races and nationalities would see who could rank out the guy from a different heritage, best. We had fist fights, but usually not over jokes like that.
But screw Canada and their fascist PC culture.
It's no wonder they elected that man boy Trudeau. He's the epitome of their backward thinking culture.
Wow, you can’t even order an Eskimo Pie in Canada (spelled C-eh, N-eh, D-eh). Somehow Inuit Pie doesn’t sound the same.
A fiend of mine bought gloves for his wife when he was in Alaska. They could never get the smell out and wound up tossing them.
Honest Injun, I didn’t mean it!
G.....I remember...LOL
Canada is further down the path to total speech control than we are.
The headline is fake news.
“Can you smell him?” is the offensive part of what was said, not the word “Eskimo.”
When I lived in Anchorage (early 80s), the drunks passed out on the hills near 4th Street were all called “Skimoes”..
So.... “Eskimo” means “geek”...
Los Angeles has tar lakes. And Kenny G is probably still popular in Utah.
Fun note: There are no trolleys to dodge in LA. The Brooklyn baseball club (that’s the official name) had been nick-named, the ‘trolley-dodgers.”
Eskimo!
See post 78 for the correct version.
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