Fired From Language School Over ‘homophonia"

And that is any less dumb? Lol.

No, it's just a different kind of stupid.

Isn't the whole point of a language school to teach people what certain words mean?

Once upon a time, yes, but these days it's an image-conscious business like any other.

Linguistic ignorance on the part of the administrators.

Besides only lefties enforce political correctness right?

Its amusing how a school assumes the general public doesn't understand the meaning of the prefix homo-

Because (mostly) lefties cry about enforcing political correctness.

The general public is stupid.

There are so many examples to prove the stupidity, it is unreal.

Cue the Leno clips!

if you hang out a while, he may even provide one!

What are you talking about!? I'm a perfectly sound individual of high enlightenment living amongst the filth of humanity. I hound internet forums where I one sidely debate my bias as undeniable fact to you the resistant heathen.

Perfect example of stupidity given, thanks.

Is this even legal?

I know I should be an actor right! Seriously if you dont recognize that even here there are people(at less extreme and more realistically) who have a superiority complex and treat forums as a place of intellectual pissing competition then you just might be one of them.


I kind of wondered that myself.

We use the term "sunday pseudo-intellectuals" now.

Wait, so the general public is the same as the users of this forum now?

Your original statement is that you are amused that the school thinks that the general public is stupid.

How did you jump that far ahead of the argument to compare the general public to users of this website?

Stupidity is infinite so I'm afraid there's no way to make it illegal.

told you!

If it was an at-will employment state, than possibly.

Can't he sue for wrongful termination or something like that? Extremely stupid reason for firing someone

You implied the general public is stupid. You are putting your words in my mouth. I basically said they assumed the general public is ignorant of the meaning of the prefix homo. Don't confuse the lack of education in a single degree as stupidity. Ignorance is not necessarily stupidity. Users of this website? I said there are people who treat forums as blah blah... I believe you took it upon yourself to see it as an attack against people here when it was not it was against SOME users of internet forums IN GENERAL. It goes back to what I said before were I simply dramatized stupidity I see in forums after a statement was made on a forum that I would in fact say something stupid. You see a connection here? Anyways sorry if I went against your individual code of conversation but I'm pretty sure you went out to cause derailment and how about you just stop now. =)

Yes, yes it is.
That being said, if it doesn generally fall under federally-protected categories (termination due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap status, or being requested to perform illegal activities, etc.) then it doesn't matter.

Related to topic:

Yes, unfortunately in most states, you can be fired for literally anything outside of what Milamber mentioned. It's notable that sexually orientation currently isn't federally-protected.

Remember, we're talking about Utah here.

And in this case, it wasn't his sexuality that was called into question, but his speech/writings/publication. Or, to put it another way, his views.

and a demonstration of just how stupid the masses are. But rather than use this as an opportunity to edemecate sum peepz ...... dey went and

DEY TURK HIS JERB!

I find this to be properly appropriate, and hilarious, given the circumstances.

Utah, 'nuff said

Haven't they renamed it Mormonia yet?