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by tyrust 1973 days ago
From the article:

>The current conflict began the day of the riots in Washington, DC when a Jewish employee told co-workers: “stay safe homies, nazis are about.” Some colleagues took offense to the language, although neo-Nazi organizations were, in fact, present at the riots. One engineer responded: “This is untasteful conduct for workplace [in my opinion], people have the right to protest period.”

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1 comments
read_if_gay_ 1973 days ago
How is that denying there are Nazis?
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geofft 1973 days ago
If you read the full sentence in the article, you will note that it continues by saying that the label is "slandering." Something has to be untrue for it to be slander. Therefore, by saying that labeling people in the crowd as Nazis is slander, it denies that there were Nazis in the crowd.
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Griffinsauce 1973 days ago
That employee is taking the position that "there are" is equal to "all those people are", the same flawed logic is being used as a premise by a lot of commenters here.

It's so blatently wrong that it's hard to assume good faith.

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read_if_gay_ 1973 days ago
Now that you pointed it out I see what you mean, but I wouldn’t call it blatantly wrong. To me the statement honestly read like it’s lumping all protesters together, or at least it’s certainly not making an obvious attempt to differentiate.
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pritambaral 1973 days ago
> ... or at least it’s certainly not making an obvious attempt to differentiate.

It does not need to.

Yelling "Fire!" in a cinema hall does not need to be accompanied by precise instructions as to where said fire is burning. It's a warning, not a debate.

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readthenotes1 1973 days ago
Something has to be defamatory and expressed orally for it to be slander. Apparently, all the labeling should have been around libel.

I am having trouble adjusting to a reality in which I am the first to express this quibble.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/libel-vs-slander-dif...

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manicdee 1973 days ago
That's really an irrelevant piece of nitpicking, especially given the context being that someone was fired for calling neo-Nazis, Nazis.
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