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Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit
Tiger4 writes "A group of black Philadelphia police officers have filed a lawsuit against the police department and the city, alleging a hostile work environment due to a private website popular with police. Their story has received wide coverage. From CNN: 'The suit alleges white officers post on and moderate the privately operated site, Domelights.com, both on and off the job. Domelights' users "often joke about the racially offensive commentary on the site ... or will mention them in front of black police officers," thus creating "a racially hostile work environment," according to lawyers for the all-black Guardian Civic League, the lead plaintiff in the suit.' The site appears to be owned and operated by a member of the police force, but it is not funded or operated by the city. Management clearly knows it exists; it is possible police force members access it on the job, and the suit says some of them reference it on the job. Individual police force members have a right to their own opinions, but management has a responsibility to enforce the law fairly and equitably across the city and among their own workforce. What is the solution here?"
Wow. I've never encountered a more appropriate slashdot alias in my life. Do you have any idea how racist and bigoted you sound, or are you just trolling?
I can see the fnords!
I can't believe some of the comments. So you guys are actually defending racists cops? Good thing you're white then I guess. Obviously those officers have every right to their opinions, however they don't have an inalienable right to be police officers, so I say fire their asses. Some professions require a bit higher standard of personal conduct and behavior, and law enforcement is one of them. Which makes this article especially disturbing as well: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/index.html
Fortunately, people with better business sense than you passed laws to prevent this
No, it's people with bad businesses sense and an overriding desire to stick their noses in. People with good business sense would have left this crap alone, and watched as businesses that engaged in such activities failed - precisely because it's bad business. Then moved into the new vacuum of the market.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Islam is not a race.
Is there some reason why one should be suspicious of Irish people?
The West is crawling with Muslim fundamentalists.
Notice how you are trying to make the original poster feel guilty about him supposedly living in a "cloistered little suburb." Why, exactly, is it wrong for someone to live in the suburbs, and not in the ghetto? Is it more "authentic" to live in the ghetto or something?
I didn't see anything racist about his statement. Care to elaborate?