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The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She?

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Re: The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She?

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Why do people even submit nytimes links when the article is completely unavailable? Can anyone actually read it or are we just supposed to debate about a vague headline?

With js off, many news web sites will let you see the first few paragraphs.

Re: The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She?

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Why do people even submit nytimes links when the article is completely unavailable? Can anyone actually read it or are we just supposed to debate about a vague headline?

You can go to archive.is, web.archive.org, etc. and enter the URL of the article to get a readable copy of it. This does not require a NY Times subscription. It works for many other sites too. (Once you get the archive link, you can post it in a comment to save other people the extra clicks.)

(Three people have already posted comments with links to archived copies of this article.)

Re: The A.C.L.U. Said a Worker Used Racist Tropes and Fired Her. But Did She?

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Is this really the strongest evidence the ACLU found to justify the claim of "racism"? This entire case sounds like a right-wing parody of a left-wing workplace and "oppression Olympics". > The A.C.L.U. acknowledges that Ms. Oh, who is Korean American, never used any kind of racial slur. But the group says that her use of certain phrases and words demonstrated a pattern of willful anti-Black animus. > In one instance…

> This entire case sounds like a right-wing parody of a left-wing workplace and "oppression Olympics".

It's definitely happening in other organizations: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-i....

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