The joke does not at all bother me personally. However, if I was an employee at Fisher Investments or had my money there, I would be infuriated to be aligned with a guy that has such poor judgement (and apparently crappy performance). The guy has billions under management and better bring his A game to the table and his comments certainly do not demonstrate that.
You can joke openly. How about not doing it on a platform where you are globally visible? How about doing it on a platform/place where the people around you will understand the joke? How about realizing that you aren't free from the consequences of what you say? If you shout a terrible joke in a park you will offend someone, even if they arent a "sensitive libtard" you and @Turveyd keep falling back on. If you say the same joke in your circle of friends away from the public, no one cares. The majority of Americans hate PC woke culture. Something like 70%. The problem stems from visibility. If you say something tasteless online you will offend someone who identifies with the thing being joked about. Situational awareness prevents big mistakes. It's a numbers game. Come up with the funniest joke in the world and tell to 1 million people. I guarantee you at least one will be offended (and maybe even with good reason). It's amazing what a little operational security does for you! Perhaps a little awareness of who and what are listening! This guy was an idiot with zero operational security and a trading record so bad it makes me look like a top hedge fund manager. He deserves everything he is getting. By giving him your money you are implicitly okaying his boorish behavior. This is a market response, and a great one at that given he was an awful trader anyway.
This is the reason my Partner never wants me speaking publicly. A) I ran with guys from the Chicago Old School of trading and am known ... when provoked ... of being somewhat physically confrontational. Not only am I ok with that, I think it's the way the world should run, generally. You get in my face about what I can and can't say, you're liable to find yourself invited out back ... B) I hate PC culture, and become openly confrontational when I find a snow-flake. Alas, the days of my Grandfather (World War I vet) are long gone. God I miss that man. Pretty soon, we'll only be allowed to watch movies like Gran Torino via bootlegs ...
I guess anyone can pretend to be tough on the internet. You'll cross the wrong guy and when you wake up in a hospital bed you'll wonder if you should've seen that therapist to talk about your repressed childhood. The toughest men I know (ex-marines, MMA fighters) are softies until they need to be tough. Anyone who gets in someones face over something as trivial as "being a snowflake" probably suffers from some sort of penile deficiency. Maybe swing by a BJJ school some time during open mat and try to get into the face of one of the "snowflakes" there. They'll set you so straight you'll probably become a hermit monk.
Yeah, in addition to screening out assholes the no asshole rule also does a good job of screening out the tough guys who are covering for some sort of real or perceived deficiency on their part or flat out mental illness. There's definitely an inverse correlation between talking tough and actually being tough, as evidenced by our unbalanced friend here. In any event, the whole "PC" screen is doing a great job getting him to self identify, it's almost perfect at doing what we all designed it to do as the assholes just keep demonstrating for us on this thread. It's uncanny really how powerless they seem to be to stop themselves!
Say and do what you want - as long as there is nothing that can get out to the public. Because like it or not nowadays ... the public (right/left/up/down and sideways) rules.
But the point is that it was a meaningless joke aimed at nobody in particular. Yes, I admit the guy was a real moron. Nevertheless, all these sissies without balls get all uptight about nothing. Even worse, it's not the people who are directly affected by such a tasteless jokes. It's these feminized groupies (or in my parlance, "douchebags") who band together to put down those they disagree (simply out of malice) that pisses me off to no end.
I agree, the dude's joke was tasteless and, frankly, pretty retarded thing to say for his age. But then again, folks get upset too easily about EVERYTHING these days. We live in a very neurotic age.