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Originally posted by popmagic
Internet has really messed up our perception of reality. Those people just typed it out of their fingers, they didn't even move their jaws once. When on the internet, we tend to think it's not a big deal, it's just a comment. Race has been made such a huge deal on social media, I feel the only person that should have been fired was the guy who took the photo. Other people were just commenting, not any different than Reddit. If it's that bad, why isn't anyone getting fired over their Reddit comments?
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Because most people on Reddit have usernames that are not their real names. If they are using their real names then comments on there would leave them just a vulnerable to being fired as Facebook comments. Like it or not, with the laws set up as they are not we live in a society where companies have the right to pick and choose who they associate with and what kinds of stuff they want their employees, who are a representation of them, to say and do online. Obviously most companies don't want their employees associated with racism. You're right in the fact that none of these people would have the guts to say this **** to that kid in real life, but that is what the internet does, it brings out the ignorance in cowards. This is how these people feel and think on the inside and them showing that ugliness on the outside, in such a public forum, is grounds for getting themselves fired for stupidity alone. It's 2015 and social media has been a thing for years and cases like this has been a thing for years, there is no excuse as to now know that saying ignorant racist crap is going to get you in trouble.
I'm sorry. It must be hard. 
