Posted on 04/11/2010 1:03:01 AM PDT by Stoat
(edit) Roy Amor, 61, who was devastated at the prospect of losing his job making prosthetics, shot himself in the head outside his house. He was facing a disciplinary investigation after suggesting to the black colleague that he ‘better hide’ when they noticed immigration officers outside their clinic. It is understood that the man was a close friend of Mr Amor and was not offended. However, it was overheard by someone else who lodged a formal complaint.
(edit) The black man, who is believed to have attended Mr Amor’s funeral and had known him for many years, is said to be ‘shattered’. His distraught family believe that what he intended as a light-hearted remark became overblown. Mr Amor, a classic car enthusiast, was married to his wife Ann, a former nurse, for 39 years. The couple have a grown-up son and daughter.
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Last night, I was working with a bunch of other guys at Wal-Mart (when Bush was President, I was a Geotechnical Engineer) re-binding a bale of cardboard that busted, and I happened to be the only white guy. The boss started doing his best Richard Pryor and he was doing an impersonation of me being the “stereotypical white guy”....which I thought was hilarious (I love Richard Pryor). I got to thinking....if a boss had been in there, he might’ve gotten into trouble for that.
Political Correctness only the left use it.
RIP.
Don’t the British watch 1984? I had to in American school. This man saw no way out from the coming fascist witch hunt and re-education.
See my post #3. It is happening in the schools already.
I loved it when Pryor made fun of how white people cuss.
I regret he took his life instead of legitimately fighting the system of intolerance.
I can imagine that there are a lot of people living just paycheck-to-paycheck. The man may have little or no savings and no way to survive short of abject poverty for him and his family if he lost his job. He may have seen no way that he wasn't going to lose his job.
One off-hand remark in a politically correct culture can easily destroy a person. Definitely a "macaca" moment. (And I can't even recall what "macaca" was supposed to refer to and it doesn't matter. All that matters is that using the term is not "politically correct".)
I regret it as well of course, but unfortunately not everyone has the temperament of a fighter in a context like this, and some are constrained by a lack of available options. For some, it seems, the spectre of a massive Leviathan bureaucracy coming down around their shoulders with an utterly insane, Orwellian and Fascist law which can for all intents and purposes destroy a person's career and life is a pretty overwhelming thing.
I'm guessing that he felt very, very alone. Here in the USA there are a variety of organizations, including entities that practice law, which could have aided him in a circumstance like this. I'm not aware of there being a similarly wide array of options in place to fight these Thought Crime allegations in the UK.
These people do real harm. This “political correctness” is beyond a joke now.
I’m not familiar with the US schooling system. How old were the two students in question?
There are surprisingly large numbers of firearms held privately in the UK. Its nowhere near as controlled as gun rights advocates would have you believe.
Oh dear...a little bit tasteless tlb... :)
Some are strong and some are sensitive. Alas, this man was one of the sensitive ones. Now, you could say that doesnt make him much of a man, and you might be right - but he doesn’t deserve to die for that.
Well thats the nub isn’t it? You just don’t know the full picture. This incident just might have been the last straw.
Around 10 years of age. But age is really irrelevant. Neither child did anything wrong.
This "hate-crime" political correctness is nonsense. Wrongdoing must imply some kind of intent.
“...but he doesn’t deserve to die for that.”
Don’t know that he deserved anything as far as death goes, but he chose that path.
Ok he chose that path. But the people who put him in the position where he had to make a choice don’t have clean hands in this either. There are consequences to all this morally high “social engineering”.
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