Ginger job centre boss who compared bullying over his hair colour to the prejudice faced by black people was not being racist, tribunal rules

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13439009/Ginger-job-centre-boss-compared-bullying-racism-tribunal.html

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    1. Vondonklewink on

      It is weird that some insults based on physical features you cannot change are socially acceptable, while others could have you arrested.

    2. randomdiyeruk on

      > The ruling came in the case of a black Job Centre worker who lodged a claim for race discrimination and harassment and disability discrimination, after his boss told him that he too had experienced bullying due to his hair colour.

      > Alex Ujah had accused manager Robert Rance of an ‘orchestrated succession of racist micro-aggressions’ against him and said he couldn’t believe he was trying to liken his experience to ‘400 years of denigration and slavery’.

      Quite literally everything wrong with the state of today.

    3. CraterofNeedles on

      It’s true though. Why is it socially acceptable to bully people for being ginger?

    4. Trying to relate to someone’s experiences, even if clumsy, is basic empathy. It’s pretty disgusting to ruin someone’s livelihood over an analogy you dislike.

    5. Cold_Philosophy on

      I have no sympathy with the job centre worker. Nor with the ginger boss.

    6. Inevitable_Snow_5812 on

      I honestly think there should be a legal phrase that a British worker says that is legally recognised as ‘back off.’

      Something like ‘fuck off and stop.’ And if that person talks to you in the workplace again you can sue them.

      All manner of workplace tribunals would never exist again.