Fired for using “N-word”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jonathan-friedland-exits-netflix-1122675

When you read the headline that the chief of public relations for Netflix was fired for using a bad word, you may have assumed he referred to black people or a specific a person as a n*****. But no, that’s not what happened at all.

At an internal meeting about forbidden words, instead of saying “the N-word,” Mr. Friedland slipped up and said the actual word.

And his other transgression is that three months later, at a meeting with black employees, he didn’t mention the incident at all! The complaint was that he ignored the issue instead of properly groveling and apologizing.

Here is the key quote from the memo written by the CEO:

For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script). There is not a way to neutralize the emotion and history behind the word in any context. The use of the phrase “N-word” was created as a euphemism, and the norm, with the intention of providing an acceptable replacement and moving people away from using the specific word. When a person violates this norm, it creates resentment, intense frustration, and great offense for many.

Meanwhile, ghetto black people use the word all the time. Living in Manhattan, occasionally I pass by some ghetto blacks on the subway or on the streets, and they rarely speak a single sentence without that word in it.

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Commenter Roli has the best observation:

Political correctness used to be mainly a tool for SWPLs to keep keep the proles in check, and for the longest time things went along just fine. Post Trump however, SWPLs lost control of political correctness and since then, more often than not, it turned into a monster that came back to bite their own liberal asses. The east coast (and west coast) elites need to see more of their own kind sacrificed to the Gods of political correctness before they come to understand just how destructive their ideas have been for American society.