re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It has little to do with principles, it is just disastrous for business to have such a massive, blatant racist running one of their teams.

It is interesting, though, that his racism that had actual real-world harmful effects—that he kept black and Hispanic people out of his buildings, refusing to rent apartments to them—didn’t get this response. He settled the suit, and he was reported to have said really vile things at that time, too. It was only when it became kind of personal that it made a ton of news. That’s troubling, and another example of both media shittiness and how our cultural values tend to excuse racism in the context of business more than in personal life, which is the opposite of what it should be.