Rick Reuben wrote:
If she had said, "I'm not hiring any Mexicans to paint my property", that's racist, because it presumes things about individuals, based on their ethnicity.

Just pointing out the ethnicity of the shitty painters is not racism, because she is not making assumptions about them without experience. She has experience.

The easy way to sum it up is:

Including ethnicity in the description of someone you know is not racism, as long as the description is accurate. Making predictions about the behavior of those you do not know, based on ethnicity, is racism.

Good god people, look at yourselves.

Horuss wrote:1. If you had a client at the studio who you heard utter a piece of 100% blatantly racist garbage like:

Mandroid 2.0 wrote:I think the window was open before when I grumbled something about, "....Mexican pieces of shit." I don't care if the bastard 3 feet away from my attempting-to-sleep body heard me.

Would you continue to work with the racist asshole, or would you tell him to fuck off?

2. If the answer is "I would tell him to fuck off," then why are the Forums any different?

(Please note that these questions are not related to an individual's right to free speech. These questions are related to what you, Steve, as an independent business owner, will and will not tolerate with regards to your business and the clients for whom you choose to work.)

Since it appears that a Forum member can come on and type this kind of shit and have no repercussions from it, and if who knows how many hundreds of other Forum members can read this garbage and make no comment about it, then this Forum is a place that I do not want to be.

Colonel Panic wrote:Fuck you, you Oregonian sheep-fucker.

punk wrote:I read the first post as "Steve will you talk to me on the internet".

Pasta wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:Fuck you, you Oregonian sheep-fucker.

Never fucked 'em, but I've looked, god knows, I've looked.

You Illinois ummm, ummmm, ummmmm, (my Chicagoan Fiance is no fucking help here), whatever slanderous thing a Illinois/Chicago resident could be.