From Tongue Tied:
Say you are the only white in a large group of employees. You would be pretty silly to start saying derogatory things about blacks, wouldn't you? But what if your non-blackness is disliked by some of the blacks there so they want to get rid of you? Easy. One of the blacks accuses you of hate speech even though you have in fact uttered nothing of the kind. And because the accuser is black and the accused is white, the white is automatically demoted. No proof needed. And what say the blacks concerned really did use hate speech all the time but were never disciplined for it?
Sound fanciful? It certainly sounds obnoxious. And the 8th circuit appeals court has just decided that what I have described is exactly what hapened to Willa Russell. She ended up with $105,000 compensation but there was no word of any adverse consequences suffered by any of the black racists. So expect more of the same. -John Ray
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