Racial Slur: Transit Cop

Bias Case Dept: Quebecers should be afraid, very afraid. And employers should be doubly afraid. The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has just ruled that name-calling is an offence. And if it's your employee who calls someone a bad name, you're liable too, according to Montreal Gazette. Over the years, I've said all kinds of nasty things to all kinds of people. I've questioned their parentage, suggested they fornicate with their mothers, or compared them to unintelligent female dogs. Were they bad things to say? Yep. Were they intended to humiliate and denigrate? Absolutely. But none of them rated a human-rights tribunal and re: "Black transit cop wins bias case" Gazette, Sept. 29 . Yes, uttering a racial slur should be socially unacceptable, but should it result in an $8,000 damage award? What if the transit cop was really fat and the trucker told him, "I don't pay attention to lardboy rent-a-cops." Wouldn't that humiliate him in front of his colleagues? As reported in the news.
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