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by throw1103 1846 days ago
Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago?

Also we didn't see the entire context..

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> Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago?

I think, you shouldn't. Unless you're a head of diversity. Then you must be.

>Also we didn't see the entire context..

The original post is at https://web.archive.org/web/20210602000424/https://www.kamau... , including the final paragraph, which begins

>If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.

I think their point is more that people probably shouldn't get fired for saying something offensive as easily as it is done nowadays.
Those are the rules the cancel mob came up with.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.