GOPer Fired Over Comment About ‘Colored’ People Not Washing Hands ‘As Well As Other Groups’

Ohio state Sen. Steve Huffman (R), who is an ER doctor, was fired from his position at a health contractor on Thursday after he suggested people in the “colored population” don’t wash their hands as well as others.


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Huffman got karma-ed, all is good.

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In private conversation I’m sure he uses the N word to describe these filthy, disease ridden non-washers.

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Why would a physician even think to write that in the first place? I swear there’s a subset of adults who never ever got beyond the sensibilities of a 12 year old.

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Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences.

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When I heard his question(s) I found it to be more typically Rethugliklan dunderheaded than malicious.

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Has he tried the I was joking defense or I apologize if you’re offended.

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Bet his face is “colored” red…

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Seems more like a Twinkie defense kinda guy…

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The colored population? What the effing ef? It’s 2020. Where have you been for the past 60 years?

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“Could it just be that NR-Americans — the open-carry population — do not have penises as large as other groups?” he asked Hannity, who is small-penised.

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“At a legislative committee hearing on Tuesday, I used an insensitive and offensive term while asking a question."

Wait. He thinks “colored population” was the big tell?

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Ok, Ohio voters, one of his employers did the right thing. What say you?

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Nazi’s?

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Proof positive that people of education and professional accomplishment can be stupid bigots.

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It’s Ohio, Ragu :sunglasses:
Seriously, the large medical center where I work in Boston is having near-daily intranet conversations, led by the CEO, on fostering diversity in our workplace and community. I can only imagine the reaction if one of our staff said something like this :scream:

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Hopefully he is washed up in the medical field. His 1800s outlook has no place in modern society, much less modern medicine.

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More proof that while Freedom of Speech is constitutionally protected, Freedom from Consequences of said speech are not.
Republicans just can’t seem to learn this lesson.

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Ooopsie! He let his inside head voice pop out of his piehole.

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I had a grandmother who talked about “colored” people but she was born in 1899. I can’t judge maliciousness from afar but it’s pretty intensely insulting to suggest that one group isn’t quite up to general hand-washing standards, not their fault, they’re just backwards and so forth. Most workplaces just don’t want to deal with this kind of thing.

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