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.
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.
“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.
It’s Ohio, Ragu
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
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.
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.