Oh you can say it, but be warned if you say it in front of me. I bite. - ThreadSky

karaswisher.bsky.social • 117 days ago

Oh you can say it, but be warned if you say it in front of me. I bite.

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating.

www.ft.com/content/cf87...

Comments

callunablue.bsky.social•117 days ago

I think they’ve always been MAGA, they finally just grew a pair and decided to publicly admit it.

lynnie321.bsky.social•117 days ago

This isn't new. I had men who refused to shake my hand during sales presentations. I had others that used every slur possible when I was the only woman in the room and they forgot I was there bc I wasn't participating in the conversation, and then made false apologies.

anitacreamer.bsky.social•117 days ago

The entire basis for MAGA is the need to say the n-word.

jlindey.bsky.social•117 days ago

These same people get offended when I use my own freedom of speech to call them an asshole for saying those things in the first place.

kwijn.bsky.social•117 days ago

Good people will still walking away and cancel you. You will still be in an echo chamber of like small minded individuals who are too mediocre to care what you say one way or another.

awakeneddragon.bsky.social•117 days ago

Guess that guy didn't hear about how "Your body, my choice. Forever." played out...

lizziethequeen.bsky.social•117 days ago

I’m with Kara on this one.

nmerhar.bsky.social•117 days ago

This is what "freedom of speech" means to grade-school playground bullies. From the 80's.

I don't fully understand why they think this is edgy? Maybe I'm too old?

dlevsf.bsky.social•117 days ago

Our eyeballs, time and money matter. Let’s make sure we know who and which companies do we can work to hurt their top and bottom lines. While I haven’t closed my various meta accounts, my time on those apps is down 80+% WoW.

kikimolloy.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'm cool with them using these terms as long as they're looking in the mirror when they say it.

anitamanicure.bsky.social•117 days ago

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 exactly!!!!!

twillhags.bsky.social•117 days ago

No f’ing way. People have been desperately waiting to say these words? Pretty low bar for achieving fulfillment.

trruhnke.bsky.social•117 days ago

Like he’s in middle school. Complete lack of character.

bewareofthephog.bsky.social•117 days ago

I hear you. I’m done with politely ignoring bigoted, ignorant MAGA comments.

jbnia.bsky.social•117 days ago

I guess that means calling someone “dickhead” in the boardroom is okay too. They’re talking a lack of civility, at least for men…

chappie12.bsky.social•117 days ago

Bankers are soft as ice cream in 90 degree heat.

oldmandork.bsky.social•117 days ago

The Financial Times has a remarkably strong anti-American bent to it. So I would take whatever reporting they do with a grain of salt.

kimsteele.bsky.social•117 days ago

Corporate America has always been MAGA.

jasperrains.bsky.social•117 days ago

At least those us us that didn't vote for a racist.
Oops, I meant rapist.
#Trump

ronniemac55.bsky.social•117 days ago

You bite, I kick😤

xjoburg.bsky.social•117 days ago

I feel so much better that I can say “deplorable” and “white trash” now.

tomtrainor.bsky.social•117 days ago

This is what’s it’s been about this whole time. Just pathetic. I am surprised he left out the racial slurs he is free to use now.

cmcginty1.bsky.social•117 days ago

Name. Him. Now.

ropetr.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thank goodness that you bite! Someone has to.

nicoleintrovert.bsky.social•117 days ago

Say it in front of me and we're gonna have an ADA/hostile work environment suit.

brendon1106.bsky.social•117 days ago

How pathetic of them

californiakat.bsky.social•117 days ago

Our country is being taken down before our eyes by short-sighted jerks like this who have decided to TRADE being free to openly criticize their government and leaders without a defamation lawsuit or criminal prosecution IN EXCHANGE FOR being free to say bigoted things without consequences.

fzolenski.bsky.social•117 days ago

Yeah, celebrating derogatory name calling isn’t quite the “we can wear fur again” from 2001. Sadly, 25 years later, the right still perceives the left oppressing them. Maybe the perceived shaming and finger wagging ads to how/why the right won.

jabro72.bsky.social•117 days ago

Does the term ugly American by default assume dumb as well?

moon272.bsky.social•117 days ago

Yes

tonychow.bsky.social•117 days ago

Confirming that their values were always all talk. It’s really just whatever’s most convenient and profitable in the moment

kristi246.bsky.social•117 days ago

I do too.

elkmoosebobcat.bsky.social•117 days ago

People that say that in fromt of me will end up with a high laxative dose in their coffee

Hopefully they shit what litte brains they have left out.

david-stone.bsky.social•117 days ago

The only real difference is they'll be saying out loud what they were always thinking anyway. Maybe it's better to see them as they really are.

Civility is often just a mask in any case. I'm all for civility, but only the genuine variety. If you're a cretin, let me know upfront.

randygicker.bsky.social•117 days ago

Time to bring back the term "idiot savant".

rockymountaincat.bsky.social•117 days ago

The next civil war will essentially be over a "celebrity".

imchuckmiller.bsky.social•117 days ago

There’s something so beta and childish about this “fear of being cancelled”. Do they still draw peepees and boobies inside library books, and giggle? Say what you want, if you’re so manly

fogalele1.bsky.social•117 days ago

They were always MAGA. They just weren’t given the opportunity to go public about their true colors. They lack morality.

fogalele1.bsky.social•117 days ago

Pete Hegseth is a threat to my daughters in the military. They perform to the best of their ability. Putting a sexist drunk at the helm of the military goes against all military mission statement’s- excellence, honesty, integrity and respect???

blueridgebri.bsky.social•117 days ago

“Says a top banker.”

Who remains anonymous 🙄

moniquelussier.bsky.social•117 days ago

Name and shame, photo bonus points.

amcguir.bsky.social•117 days ago

Absolutely with you, @karaswisher.bsky.social Use the R word at your own peril.

niknakinoaktown.bsky.social•117 days ago

conservative white male fragility-fear-ignorance is still at epidemic proportions and will continue to damage our Democracy…

kathyinsonoma.bsky.social•116 days ago

They will be the death of us. Stop spending money in these venues. The pocketbook is powerful.

btaboh.bsky.social•117 days ago

Ugghh.... I feel sick everytime I see anyone of these sorry excuses for human beings

lmgrant.bsky.social•117 days ago

I worked in the law dept of a major corporation. If you say things like that at work, you subject the company to a lawsuit. I find it hard to believe that will be tolerated.

joannakuebler.bsky.social•117 days ago

“If Kamal Harris won, he’d want us to call him they/them..” You were BRILLIANT just now on CNN. Your brilliance, chill, and wit is a lifeline in media right now

lizzrest.bsky.social•117 days ago

I know precisely who I would call a pussy in this scenario, tbh. And it’s the “liberated but still anonymous” dude.

mrfranklin17.bsky.social•116 days ago

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2JCTWBr/

cpanza.bsky.social•117 days ago

CEOs are aching to be freed from their shackles and embrace their inner worst, most authentic, selves.

dinklife.bsky.social•117 days ago

He needs to say it to a therapist and start getting to the root of his issues

jimmmers.bsky.social•117 days ago

Personally, I like it when you bite.

…

THEM, NOT ME! Geez…

itsallgonnabeok.bsky.social•117 days ago

What little, mean men. And cowardly - couldn’t help but note that this dude didn’t put his name out there

rickclassic.bsky.social•117 days ago

So they want to go back to the 1950s? What has Mad Men wrought us?

moniquelussier.bsky.social•117 days ago

I bite too, however we see how they bolster the white male club they worry is slipping away: golf, trophy hunts, cigars bars, mistresses, boardrooms, C-suites.

Bang the DEI-is-evil drum rather than finding/advancing talent and growing their business beyond the cracker-American profit monkeys.

tally4636.bsky.social•117 days ago

Or the classy Nancy Mace verbiage… Chick Dicks. Awful.

dktr.bsky.social•117 days ago

So I can walk right up to this unidentified banker and say, "So you have a matching brain and penis. They're both pathetically undersized or impotent, but more likely both. "

northsleuth.bsky.social•117 days ago

Liberated but remains anonymous?

clj5.bsky.social•117 days ago

That’s a fair response.

wickit411.bsky.social•116 days ago

I might bitch slap you so hard, google can't even find you (or worse, your college alumni association).

cfhurricane.bsky.social•117 days ago

Boy, how could a top banker really be at the top of his game if he couldn’t feel unencumbered using those words??

That’s like chiding the patron saint for saying EBITA during Piv.

remlapj.bsky.social•117 days ago

Amazing life some people lead. Apparently, their biggest hardship is keeping themselves from being an asshole the moment they leave church.

4legsrgood.bsky.social•117 days ago

SAME

jimsamuel.com•117 days ago

I do not believe any banker said that. My bet is that the FT reporter fabricated that quote to get attention for their story.

bchanson.bsky.social•117 days ago

It is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve heard. Their parents did not teach them well.

chinati.bsky.social•117 days ago

Humans have lost their morals & decency. People suck

tryingagain2.bsky.social•117 days ago

They are MAGA. Check out terrible policies and candidates supported by the chamber of commerce. Fascists

amitrafat.bsky.social•117 days ago

👎🏻

narda1.bsky.social•117 days ago

Loving your book! Now I know why these tech bros want people back in the office, nothing to play with, without them!

gerrylev.bsky.social•117 days ago

One of the worst things about Trump is he made disgusting acceptable.

dlevsf.bsky.social•117 days ago

100%. Well, 50%, with the other 50% worst thing making loyalty+incompetence too common a recipe for cabinet positions.

medru.bsky.social•117 days ago

Women watched their fathers and husbands do the military's bidding their entire lives, for some.

Men want to bring back all the crap that already decided.
They just want to destroy what has been developed over the last 50 years in the US. It does not stop with women.

medru.bsky.social•117 days ago

Business in the age of transition to a billionaire led paradise for the wealthy, and them alone.