A few weeks ago, the
Toronto Star reported that Aileen Siu, a young woman who worked at the Ontario government accidently sent an email to Evon Reid, a prospective applicant, labeling him a "ghetto dude" . The girl has since left/been fired, the premier of Ontario apologized and this
guy has been innundated with job offers.
What's interesting is that people are only discussing this from a racism POV and not an email etiquette POV (actually Aileen shouldn't have sent this out in the first place, at least not at work) or even classism (Evon is from Malvern, a rough part of Toronto. If we're going to get stereotypical here, my bets are that Aileen is a Markham Princess (Markham, Ontario is a middle to upper middle class area with a large Chinese population). It's also interesting that this was first reported a couple of weeks ago and it's STILL BEING DISCUSSED!
Discrimination: More than just semantics
In politics, thou shalt not offend