In the United States, the Purge is well under way. How ridiculous is it? Equity Prime Mortgage, a lender in Georgia, has just canned its human-resources director because her stepson is Garrett Rolfe, a former policeman charged with murder in the June 12 killing of Rayshard Brooks, and she apparently believes this charge to be unjust. Equity Prime very publicly declared that it had fired the woman over her “views” (their word), which apparently made some of her colleagues uncomfortable. (Maybe their views made her uncomfortable, too?) The company is not being very forthcoming about what actually happened, and those details matter: Did she show up at work one day and make a big speech about the issue, or is this another case of some ratty little informer, some East German-style inoffizieller Mitarbeiter, engaged in petty vindictiveness?
One understands Equity Prime’s sensitivity. We wouldn’t want anybody sullying the good name of the American mortgage-lending industry, the reputation of which is right up there with those of meth-cooking outlaw bikers and the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein.
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