{"id":76099,"date":"2019-07-22T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76099"},"modified":"2019-07-22T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:45:24","slug":"trumps-go-back-remark-in-workplace-it-might-be-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/07\/22\/trumps-go-back-remark-in-workplace-it-might-be-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s &#8216;Go Back&#8217; Remark: In Workplace, it Might be Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76100\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEB-1-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; NEW YORK &#8211; President Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color \u201cgo back\u201d to countries \u201cfrom which they came\u201d has excited some in his political base. Yet in many of America\u2019s workplaces and institutions, the same language would be unacceptable and possibly illegal. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal laws against workplace bias, explicitly cites comments like \u201cgo back to where you came from\u201d as examples of \u201cpotentially unlawful conduct.\u201d Similar phrases routinely show up in lawsuits that the EEOC files against employers alleging discrimination, harassment or retaliation based on race or national origin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apart from its legality in workplaces, Trump\u2019s language has ignited impassioned responses across racial, ethnic and political divides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t Racist!\u201d tweeted Terrence Williams, a black comedian who supports Trump. \u201cNo matter what color you are YOU can go back home or move if you don\u2019t like America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Rachel Timoner, a senior rabbi at a Reform Jewish synagogue in Brooklyn, said such language would never be tolerated among members of her congregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d want to sit down with them and ask them, where that\u2019s coming from?\u201d she said. \u201cIf a person persistently degraded other human beings, I would need to say to them they could no longer participate. It\u2019s really important for us to create an environment where people of color and people of all identities feel welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; NEW YORK &#8211; President Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color \u201cgo back\u201d to countries \u201cfrom which they came\u201d has excited some in his political base. Yet in many of America\u2019s workplaces and institutions, the same language would be unacceptable and possibly illegal. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}