Right now.
Right now.
Those articles refer to him being in a "PR meeting about sensitive words".
Surely if the meeting was to discuss sensitive words that may be broadcast, then surely that would have come up during the discussion. The second "offense" was a meeting with HR regarding the first "offense", so how could it not have come up as part of that!?
I'm with Dis on this one, sounds like the daily dose of PC nonsense we get subjected to.
"In a descriptive context"?
What does that actually mean? Why couldn't he say black person or use the term 'n-word'?
I don't know where you work but where I work the directors are very well spoken and have excellent communication skills that have very clearly been honed and of course trained, for some.
Like I said, if they got fired for saying something else they shouldn't have said then this wouldn't be a story.
N-word, f-word, c-word... you name it, I would not expect a director to utter those words, f word perhaps if something hit the fan but that'd most likely be behind closed doors. Especially from a comms director lol.
I'm not triggered at all, I'll happily call people names but I do have the capacity to realise what situation I'm in.
We also don't know the exact situation. If he was reading it off a list then it's most likely a case of unfair dismissal.
Again one of these stories, but nothing saying what the actual context was.
they are hardly African thoughEveryone who hasn't crawled out from under a rock should know by now that the acceptable word is "African American".
How could I not mention it.
Here we are in a theoretically suitable context and we're not saying THE WORD. Everyone from the thread starter onwards.
Why are we not saying THE WORD in a descriptive context here? Are you slaves to correctness?
Already playing by the same rules you think you're mocking.
Still, have a think about how badly he must have pitched it if in a theoretically suitable context it managed to be unsuitable.
A poor showing for his job title.
Or, or we can jump on the bandwagon of PC gone mad.
I read these headlines about the story initially thinking Communications director, he really should know better, what a numpty, just don't use *that* word FFS!
But then the details of the story seem to paint a different picture:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44585072
https://deadline.com/2018/06/jonath...ef-following-insensitive-comments-1202415977/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...han-Friedland-fired-using-N-word-meeting.html
While I wouldn't expect there to be many reasons why someone in a regular office job should utter the word actually the fact that he was a head of communications and the meeting was a PR meeting where the topic of discussion was sensitive words... well I guess given they are a company that puts out content where that word might be used then it isn't quite so far fetched that someone might use it in a descriptive sense in such a meeting. He's not referring to any person, he's not repeating some rap lyrics, he's not trying to use it in some misguided humorous way - he's the head of communications trying to have an adult conversation about sensitive words and he's used it in a descriptive context. But people got triggered...
He's then apparently apologised to the people in the meeting later he's seemingly had to meet with two (the articles makes a note of the fact that they're black) HR personnel about the incident and seems to have uttered the word a second time there - almost certainly in a descriptive sense again. Presumably, though he knows not to use it in a big meeting given the flake he received, he perhaps thought that he could have a candid/factual discussion with HR? Seemingly not, they were apparently triggered too and apparently he hadn't learned his lesson...
So now some random exec who probably wasn't a racist and was presumably otherwise quite decent at his job gets sacked because, well that is expected these days... he's of course issued a grovelling apology on twitter. It just seems bizarre, I don't think it would be quite as controversial in the UK, it isn't unheard of to see for example white people use the word in a purely descriptive sense on UK TV shows (Frankie Boyle, Stuart Lee etc...) but we do seem to follow the US in this sense and it does seem that as a society we're getting a bit oversensitive to the point where things get a bit silly.
Everyone who hasn't crawled out from under a rock should know by now that the acceptable word is "African American".
racist! what about black people who aren't from Africa eh?
dem be...…
use the term 'n-word'?
"In a descriptive context"?
What does that actually mean? Why couldn't he say black person or use the term 'n-word'?
I'm not sure why there is an uproar about this? A director especially has to be careful about what they say because they represent the company. They can be fired for a lot less. Non-story. It's only in the press because of the word used...
How can you have a meeting to discuss sensitive words but you can’t say the sensitive words within that meeting.
Sorry whut? It was in internal meeting. Discussing sensitive words.
I’m lost. The world is going mad.