[BwanaNdege]

Read the article

“According to an updated Stars and Stripes article published on Tuesday, Neary was at an outdoor physical training event for Marines at his headquarters where music was being played over loudspeakers. A witness to the incident told Stripes that after hearing some of the musical artists use a racial slur, Neary asked junior Marines nearby how they would feel if he used the word.

The witness told Stars and Stripes that his comment stunned the young Marines who said that even if Neary “was attempting to be instructive about the taboo nature of the word, it came as a shock to hear it from a white general officer.”

[Leaning Right]

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I will instead fall back in this FR rule of thumb: Once you’ve been here for 10+ years, you can comment based on the except only.

But, yeah. If the general used the n-word in ANY context, then he is guilty of being stupid. As I noted before, we live in a PC world, like it or not. You want to use the n-word? You want to call some politician an ass?

Then go right ahead. But then you had better be able to accept the consequences.

[alexander_busek]

The witness told Stars and Stripes that his comment stunned the young Marines who said that even if Neary “was attempting to be instructive about the taboo nature of the word, it came as a shock to hear it from a white general officer.”

Someone was (wrongfully) "shocked?" Sounds like grounds enough to fire the General!

I mean, after all: The subjective feeling of "being shocked" - even if the objective reason for feeling that way is spurious - suffices, doesn't it?

Regards,