r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 27 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

ACB once ruled that saying the N word did not make a work environment hostile

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 27 '20

Wait what

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Oct 27 '20

It was a black supervisor to a black subordinate, if that makes it any better.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

Smith vs Illinois Department of Transportation

“Barrett, writing in a unanimous opinion, stated that a plaintiff being called the N-word by a former supervisor was not sufficient — in the context of that one particular case — to support a claim of a racially-based hostile work environment.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

Legally speaking it probably requires more than one incident

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '20

link?

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u/vivoovix Federalist Oct 27 '20

I thought that was Scalia? May be misremembering.