re: AT&T fires president over racist images sent over his phone

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not necessarily. And not in this context either.

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And we are talking about THIS context. Its not offensive to a logical person.

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But the use of this word isn't exactly a black and white issue

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Fair, but in this context its pretty clearly not offensive and I have heard 1,000,000 times that using "as" is not offensive when referring to a group of "friendS" like this meme.

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I think anyone here in the corporate world knows that the use of the n word towards any fellow employee of any type of work setting will at the very least have you an immediate visit to your HR directors office. The only difference here is that it was used on a work phone. Dude is a dumbass

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Sure. Do you call this the "N" word? If someone asked you what the "N" was, would you say "ni**as"?