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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Executive Time

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Belafon2/06/2019 9:21:12 am PST

re: #328 HappyWarrior

Not a political statement sure but surely showing racial insensitivity when he in his own words should have known better.

Every year, I have to take sensitivity training at work, covering race, gender, and age discrimination. Why? Because the standards of conduct have to be reinforced.

When we hold people to the “should have known better” standard, we should realize that that bar is actually pretty high for the 80s. People weren’t running around going “Hey, we should be more sensitive towards these groups.” Think about people today needing training on how to properly act around women now. It’s the same thing.

A lot of “should have known better” is drawn from social clues, and the 80s in the south, even among the best of places, the social clues did not preclude wearing blackface.