Trent Lott was another, Greaseman was another. They kept ratcheting down which behavior counts as "racism" until its basically Cardinal Richelieu saying how he can find a reason to hang a man in any 6 lines of text that he wrote.
Once you accept the premise that people can be fired for subjective reasons unrelated to job performance then every interaction degenerates into who has the power to direct the mob.
This is the first incident I recall: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-17-sp-36803-story.html
Trent Lott was another, Greaseman was another. They kept ratcheting down which behavior counts as "racism" until its basically Cardinal Richelieu saying how he can find a reason to hang a man in any 6 lines of text that he wrote.
Once you accept the premise that people can be fired for subjective reasons unrelated to job performance then every interaction degenerates into who has the power to direct the mob.