Netflix CEO Fires Top Executive After Use of Racial Slur

In introspective memo, Reed Hastings blamed his ‘privilege’ for minimizing race issues

Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings said he fired his chief communications officer after he used a racial slur in his conversations at work on multiple occasions, an episode that has created a moment of introspection at the streaming juggernaut.

Jonathan Friedland, the executive who was fired, said in a series of tweets that he spoke insensitively while talking to his public relations team about “words that offend in comedy.”

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