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Chattanooga software firm Transcard terminates employee after firestorm over Obama noose memeMay 17th, 2020 | by Wyatt Massey
An employee at a local software company was terminated after a social media firestorm identified him as the person who posted a racist meme showing former president Barack Obama with a noose around his neck.
Screenshots shared on social media this weekend allege that the image was posted by Gary Casper, identified as vice president for information technology at Chattanooga-based Transcard.
The picture of Obama, the first African American president in U.S. history, includes the caption "#PayPerView." Casper's Facebook profile listed his position as vice president of IT at the software company, as well as previous IT roles at US Xpress, according to the screen grabs. Threatening to harm or kill a former president is considered a felony with a penalty of up to five years in prison.
On Sunday afternoon, Transcard president Chris Fuller emailed the Times Free Press saying the company does not allow its employees to make political statements on social media.
"As soon as Transcard realized that an employee was utilizing social media to engage in political speech, it took immediate action to terminate its relationship with such person," Fuller wrote in the email.
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https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/may/17/executive-chattanoogsoftware-firm-transcard-a/523192/
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And another disgusting bigot loses his job. They never learn, do they? At least they're too stupid to keep silent. I love how their hatred just seems to out them.
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They just can't help themselves. (Original Post)
catbyte
May 2020
OP
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)1. If you value your job, don't advertise your racism on Facebook
and don't threaten a president/former president
How hard is that?
Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)2. "Political speech"????
So straight up hate speech is considered "political speech" by this organization. Wow
catbyte
(34,402 posts)4. I noticed that, too. Chickensh*t company.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)3. How did someone that ignorant ...
get a vice president position in that company.