Posted on 04/19/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by beaversmom
She no speekee Englee!
I won’t be surprised if she gets her job back with back pay plus a bonus for having wrongfully been deprived of her job. So this could just be an extended vacation.
Employers should have the right to fire anyone who makes their business look bad. Of course, this is the public school system, so she's likely on leave with pay until hey figure out where to shunt her after the public eye wanders elsewhere.
She could have made a political statement without it being offensively racist, and then she wouldn't be in hot water. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, but there is responsibility associated with that freedom, too. You have the right to say the dumbest, most hateful thing you can imagine, but your employer also should have the right to dissociate him/herself from you if you do so in public.
When the current minorities get enough power and whites are in the minority,
I don’t expect any kidglove treatment or any “affirmative action”, to say the least.
It might be good to start studying how the Jews stayed alive and kept their culture throughout history.
It is sad that people cannot accept the fact that blacks(and other groups) resent whites and probably even hate them. What is worse and should be explored is the formation of coalitions of blacks, Asians, non Christians and Hispanic to gain control of this country.
Does it matter that in this case, she was a government employee, and therefore it is the government that is determining what speech is considered acceptable, and what isn’t?
Its bad enough it should be repeated
Hell let’s shout it from the roof tops
But instead....it will be only mild chatter from the outliers like us
So that's what the druggies are calling it now.
But as a public employee, she is being fired by the government for having said something that the government deems unacceptable.
What would keep the government from similarly firing an employee for saying they support gun rights, or think illegals should be deported, not educated?
I’m not saying there isn’t speech that would cross the line even for a government employee, but when government acts against speech, it is censorship. It would clearly be wrong for the government to deny benefits, or to punish, someone for what she said; the question is whether as an employer, the government still has some restrictions on what they are allowed to do to punish speech they don’t like.
I feel the opposite — if a private employer wanted to fire someone for saying something, I think they should have every right to do so. And sadly, in many cases the government prohibits employers from firing at-will employees, because of laws we have passed to protect certain classes of people.
I have no problems firing a person for cause. But you have to make the case, not just assume that because a person says something, it means they would also act in a certain way.
I’ve certainly said things occasionally that, if used as the sole judge of my character, would find me quite lacking. I take great care not to write things that would do so, as I like having a job.
I can imagine several things said regularly on this site, that if they were put on facebook by a teacher, might get a similar reaction to that which we have now — and in some cases, I am pretty sure those people would make fine educators, even with their biases and prejudices.
I’m not trying to judge this particular case, which is why I started with the general comment that it makes me nervous whenever I see people losing their jobs for expressing an opinion.
Well done ditto
Quite right
It does matter - which is why the smaller the government the better as it perverts the normal action of discriminating against those who we oppose. Yes that is right - I said it - many forms of discrimination is OK.
I agree with you, and a smaller government would make the problem less pervasive. I understand the civil rights acts, but also feel that at some level, a person should have a right to hire only white people, or only black people, if that is what they want.
It isn’t the job of government to make private citizens act civilly — just to keep them from directly harming other citizens or depriving them of the just use of their property.
Once we had widespread support for government forcing people to rent their houses to people they didn’t want, or to hire people they didn’t want, it became difficult to keep government out of anything. Freedom of association is meaningless if it doesn’t extend to a person’s livelihood.
What an insipient moron. I wonder how many “advanced” degrees she has?
Not a problem. Where I live here in Texas our schools are “wonderful”, filled with loving people.’
It’s only over there...at those other schools, where the bad people are.
(how a person that rationalizes sending their kids to public school thinks)
Thanks!
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