Wow.
Disco Writer used the N word in the writers room.
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You couldn't generate an episode from this contraversy without time travel.
Although what if the universal translator was bleeping out any bad language from local racists on an away mission to Earth's past, who are becoming furious about the censorship.
Oh.
The Good Place already did that, and it was forking amazing.
Although what if the universal translator was bleeping out any bad language from local racists on an away mission to Earth's past, who are becoming furious about the censorship.
Oh.
The Good Place already did that, and it was forking amazing.
Funny how we have a black man leaving because of a racially hostile environment, and the first thing you did is assume it was another hypothetical black man being at fault for that...
Yeah.... "wow".
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Also, Just for the people trying to pin that on "another" black man:
Walter Mosley specifically quoted the HR guy said: "Mr. Mosley, it has been reported that you used the N-word in the writers’ room.’ he replied, ‘I am the N-word in the writers’ room.’”
Let's take a look at the DIS writers room:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5171438/fullcredits/writer?ref_=m_ttfc_2
The only black writer credited is Alan B. McElroy. Who is also an elderly black man. The only other black writer (Pwer) left 2017. None of the other 26 writers is black, they're overwhelmingly white.
So we have a roomb almost entirely made up of white people getting rid of the only black person for using the "n-word" when he was talking about discrimination.
Yeah. Screw that.
Walter Mosley specifically quoted the HR guy said: "Mr. Mosley, it has been reported that you used the N-word in the writers’ room.’ he replied, ‘I am the N-word in the writers’ room.’”
Let's take a look at the DIS writers room:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5171438/fullcredits/writer?ref_=m_ttfc_2
The only black writer credited is Alan B. McElroy. Who is also an elderly black man. The only other black writer (Pwer) left 2017. None of the other 26 writers is black, they're overwhelmingly white.
So we have a roomb almost entirely made up of white people getting rid of the only black person for using the "n-word" when he was talking about discrimination.
Yeah. Screw that.
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I worked at a warehouse where a white guy got fired for using the N word. He was playing table tennis with a black coworker, things got competitive, then nasty. He shouldn't have used that word to vent his frustration.
I don't think black people should use that word to refer to themselves when they are with white people. It sends the wrong message.
I don't think black people should use that word to refer to themselves when they are with white people. It sends the wrong message.
You know there are not just writers in the writers room, and it might not even be a "room"?
(The whole time I have been thinking about the writers room from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.)
Their work zone could be a corner of an office-floor, and their voices carry.
This is so weird.
Black people wouldn't care, and white people are afraid.
A personal grudge makes the the most sense, before we start bringing in other ethnicites and genders.
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The sad part is, Mosley wasn't even fired. He wasn't even officially reprimanded, according to his own retelling of it. He left himself because he didn't like to work in an environment that apparently is willing to put down a zero tolerance policy on the use of a racial slur by anyone, even in a verbatim quote, even by a person this slur could be applied to, if someone else voices concern over it. That's his good right, and it's sad that it came to this. But it was his personal choice to leave over what seems, according how he relayed it, a polite member of HR asking him not to use that slur (even in a quote) anymore in the writer's room.
As an almost young conservative white guy can we not stereotype here? I've heard everything in the workplace from the n-word, Spanish expletives, and slurs, and various things that I probably can't remember. Not one of those conversations went to HR despite all the "conservative white people" around.
I mean, we live in a world where we need safe places and feeling uncomfortable from words is commonplace. We live in a very reactionary time.
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According to this article by The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...k-discovery-using-n-word-writers-room-1237489) :
Also, I can't judge the ethnicity of most of the writers in the link you posted because a lot of them have no pictures, but I do have to wonder looking at the rest of them ... is Brandon Schultz not black enough for you?
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I had an inspiration and went to the twitter by the Discovery writing staff and looked through the pictures to see if they posted a group photo somewhere, which led to me siding with the THR article on the issue after finding this:
https://twitter.com/StarTrekRoom/status/1106043436925227008
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For the use of the P-word, you must now resign from Trekbbs.
Then I should get a few more choice words in before I go
Every story has two sides.
Mosley probably rubbed someone else on the writing staff the wrong way. They probably complained as soon as they could get Mosley on something (regardless of context) and took advantage of a Zero Tolerance Policy that was probably thought up in the Early-2000s (when that was a thing) but was never taken off the books. I'm guessing Mosley left because he didn't appreciate the power play and didn't want to work with people who would go to such lengths, especially if he didn't know (or couldn't prove) who complained and if it didn't look like anyone (or at least the right people) had his back.
Mosley probably rubbed someone else on the writing staff the wrong way. They probably complained as soon as they could get Mosley on something (regardless of context) and took advantage of a Zero Tolerance Policy that was probably thought up in the Early-2000s (when that was a thing) but was never taken off the books. I'm guessing Mosley left because he didn't appreciate the power play and didn't want to work with people who would go to such lengths, especially if he didn't know (or couldn't prove) who complained and if it didn't look like anyone (or at least the right people) had his back.
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The future is going to be a never-ending Reign of Terror of wokeness, isn't it?
Either that, or we all get killed when the apricot lardsack tries to nuke a hurricane.
What a stupid time to be alive.
Either that, or we all get killed when the apricot lardsack tries to nuke a hurricane.
What a stupid time to be alive.
There are a few options here. One is that we are only hearing one side of the story and actually there was more to it. Another is that a slightly jumpy HR individual overreacted to something minor and this chap then overreacted to that overreaction.
It's possible @Rahul is bang on correct as well. People can be uncomfortable about hearing the real history of racism and would rather it were not discussed in those terms.
It's possible @Rahul is bang on correct as well. People can be uncomfortable about hearing the real history of racism and would rather it were not discussed in those terms.
I don't get woke or jumpy or whatever just don't say the n-word at work people (or elsewhere ideally), it's pretty simple. Don't grab your co-workers ass, either.
Just to put things in perspective, the n word has been used in a Star Trek Episode.
It was one of the most "woke" moments in Star Trek.
It was one of the most "woke" moments in Star Trek.
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