# REPOST: "Fired for being politically incorrect"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 4, 1999, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799 "1999-08-04T02:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 8

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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799/141 "1999-08-08T01:58:00Z")

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LYNN:

Uh… try reading more carefully. You were responding to what I had said about AURASEER’s resignation, it had nothing to do with Melin.

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We do precision guesswork

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799/142 "1999-08-08T22:21:00Z")

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## {{Regarding the specific case of Melin (and probably extrapolating to AuraSeer’s situation), quadell writes: quote:

## Whether she technically “resigned” or not isn’t the point.

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Stoidella…seems pretty clear here that Melin’s case WAS the case under discussion. You did not make it clear that you were talking about another case.

Opal, Melin made it clear that she would do and post as she wished, regardless of what Ed told her. (Or at least, this is my understanding of the conversation, I wasn’t included in it.) As a general rule, that tends to get you fired in ANY job.

Lynn (as a poster)

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**Author:** ![JYDog1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@JYDog1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JYDog1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 1999, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799/143 "1999-08-08T22:56:00Z")

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\<\<If you do, then act like it, and stop posting comments that are perceived as racist under your own names.  
Your Quadell\>\>

Allow me to take a little side trip here. This is C&P’d from way back in the thread, and I have to ask, who decides what will be perceived as ‘racist?’ Some people have thicker skin (as we can see by this 3 page journey) than others. Just askin’.

yer dog

Now, we can do this the hard way, or the . . .actually, there’s just the hard way.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799/144 "2001-06-16T21:21:49Z")

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This, too, is part of our history and should not disappear in the pruning process. However, it is not my attempt to reopen any old wounds or hurt any previously soothed feelings.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repost-fired-for-being-politically-incorrect/1799/145 "2001-06-16T21:26:37Z")

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Some history is best left alone.

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