Ginger job centre boss who compared bullying over his hair colour to the prejudice faced by black people was not being racist, tribunal rules

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13439009/Ginger-job-centre-boss-compared-bullying-racism-tribunal.html

by PlainPiece

13 comments

  1. It is weird that some insults based on physical features you cannot change are socially acceptable, while others could have you arrested.

  2. > The ruling came in the case of a black Job Centre worker who lodged a claim for race discrimination and harassment and disability discrimination, after his boss told him that he too had experienced bullying due to his hair colour.

    > Alex Ujah had accused manager Robert Rance of an ‘orchestrated succession of racist micro-aggressions’ against him and said he couldn’t believe he was trying to liken his experience to ‘400 years of denigration and slavery’.

    Quite literally everything wrong with the state of today.

  3. It’s true though. Why is it socially acceptable to bully people for being ginger?

  4. Employment Tribunal is full of shit. Well known fact.

  5. Trying to relate to someone’s experiences, even if clumsy, is basic empathy. It’s pretty disgusting to ruin someone’s livelihood over an analogy you dislike.

  6. Ofc he’s not being racist, he is however being a tit.

  7. I have no sympathy with the job centre worker. Nor with the ginger boss.

  8. I honestly think there should be a legal phrase that a British worker says that is legally recognised as ‘back off.’

    Something like ‘fuck off and stop.’ And if that person talks to you in the workplace again you can sue them.

    All manner of workplace tribunals would never exist again.

  9. How is every single comment in this thread agreeing that bullying ginger people is the same as racism 😭 It isn’t right to bully anyone but how is it even comparable? Am I missing that ginger people are at risk of being killed for being red haired? Do they get turned down for jobs because they’re ginger?

  10. See in my day we’d have just laughed this guy off as a ginger prick. Nowadays everything is a tribunal.

    > liken his experience to ‘400 years of denigration and slavery’.

    Wow the retirement age really has crept up.

  11. Any punishment for Mr Ujah for his malicious complaint? Or just go around ruining other peoples lives merrily with no consequence. Hmmm.

  12. Stunned at how many people think that the acceptability of having your ginger hair made fun of is, on any remote level, to the discrimination black people have faced. Completely dishonest and intellectually depressing comments here.

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