Massive Lawfare Win For Free Speech of UK employees
(thecritic.co.uk)
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I'm pretty legitimately shocked. I didn't think such a thing would be possible in the UK now. The only thing the story is missing is word that the "trainer" was fired for causing such a shitstorm and costing the bank over a million dollars.
A man can dream.
It's not only surprising coming from the UK. These days I doubt a US court would rule the same way.
When did "nigger" become such an unspeakable offense in the UK anyway? Isn't that mainly an American epithet? I would have thought it's like "cunt" - yeah it's rude to say but you won't get cancelled over it.
A lot of our social faux pas have been ctrl-c ctrl-v'd whole cloth from the USA, without consideration for context or history. I've even heard people parrot the line that 'we are a nation of immigrants', which makes even less sense in Europe than it does in America (where it doesn't make that much sense either). I think it's just a consequence of the USA being the de facto leader of the Western world. A lot of the cultural context in Europe is full of American hang-ups, even when it doesn't hold up to even cursory scrutiny.