A lawyer from Colorado insists he’s “not a bigot” despite calling a judge an antigay slur. Instead, he says, he’s “simply not politically correct.”
Robert Abrams just had his law license suspended and has been ordered to participate in sensitivity training after calling a judge a “gay fat f*g” in an email to two of his clients.
According to court documents, Abrams made the homophobic and fatphobic remarks about Judge Phillip Douglass in an email to a couple he was representing in a construction contract lawsuit.
“The judge hates me,” he wrote. “It happens, it’s not the first time. I probably remind him of someone who beat him up [when he] was a fat kid and now that he’s a big fat judge he gets even w/ the bullies. Maybe he just hates Jews, who knows?”
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This week, Abrams was issued the three-month suspension after disciplinary judge William Lucero determined he had violated Colorado’s Rules of Professional Conduct.
The suspension was stayed, however, pending the completion of an 18-month probationary period, in which the lawyer must enroll in an ethics school and do eight hours of cultural awareness and sensitivity training.
When asked about his use of the antigay slur, Abrams said he is “simply not a politically correct individual, and will never be politically correct.”
“That’s how the bullies talked to the weaklings when I grew up,” he explained. Then he tried arguing that the word “f*g” describes a “sissy” not a “sex preference.”
Abrams also denied having any “bias against homosexuals,” going so far as to ask his gay cousin to testify about their “warm familial relationship” and citing his work representing a gay bar in Denver one time.
“I’m not a bigot,” he declared.
In his ruling, Lucero wrote that Abrams is free to speak however he wants “in his private life,” but when he’s representing clients he “must put aside the schoolyard code of conduct and adhere to professional standards.”
“[L]awyers’ words and deeds reflect on the values and ideals of today’s legal profession,” Lucero continued. “Lawyers are also officers of the court, so their conduct signals to clients the quality of justice and the measure of fairness that can be expected from the legal system as a whole.”
Abrams says he plans to appeal Lucero’s ruling, calling it “just obnoxiously political correctness.”
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Cam
“”Abrams said he is “simply not a politically correct individual, and will never be politically correct.”””
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It’s interesting how in this day and age, media and other outlets allow people to get away with softening their racism or bigotry by saying “I”m not politically correct”.
So in other words, somebody who runs around calling black people the “n” word and saying using phony racist Asian accents isn’t racist? They’re just “not politically correct”.
Since people politically correct basically just means you don’t walk around saying racist things, saying you aren’t is not an excuse. This B. S. needs to stop and media needs to stop reporting on that excuse as if it were valid.
Kangol2
Thank you, and you know if someone spewed anti-Semitic garbage at this piece of trash he’d be up in arms and dropping that “politically correct” BS as quickly as you could say “Meshugenah!”
johnozed
My browser converts the term ‘politically correct’ to ‘treating people with respect’. So it’s a bit of a surprise to read ‘I’m not treating people with respect’…
rand503
Yeah, but call HIM any names, and he’ll pull a gun out.
djmcgamester
What does having a gay relative mean? Maybe he uses similar slurs on his gay cousin.
MrMichaelJ
Anyone want to bet this guy is physically grotesque?
Heywood Jablowme
You don’t have to be “politically correct” to know it’s kind of a bad idea to insult a judge!
Jared MacBride
They have long memories and short fuses, and as a rule they look out for one another. This chap may need to relocate his practice.
Jack Meoff
Regardless of your feelings towards any group or individual, you should never correspond like that with clients when you are hired in a professional capacity. If I had a lawyer who thought it was OK to talk that way about any minority group in our correspondence I would have grave doubts about his professionalism and ability to defend me adequately.
stanhope
And he probably is a skinny money grubbing kike…good for goose, good for gander.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Please dont do this, as outrageous as Mr. Abrams is, being a bigot to counter bigotry never works, and it discredits your justified outrage.
scottjamesmiller
“Money grubbing kike?” Really stanhope? What’s wrong with your life?
Kangol2
Did you have to spew an anti-Semitic slur to make your point? You’re as bad as this creep!
frapachino
“Fatphobic” lol I would hope everyone is fatphobic!
Cam
What a shock, the right wing troll that always defends anti-LGBT bigotry wants to deflect from the homophobia.
Kangol2
Poor Frapacuckoo, triggered by almost everything. May your dreams be filled with tattooed Black, Latinx, Arab and Asian American heavyset lesbians smothering you with kindness as you scream for some Aryan twink to come save you!
mozzer
I hope everyone’s “frapachino”-phobic too!I Can’t stand hateful, bigoted racist MF’rs like this A-hole.
Kieran
“Abrams made the homophobic and fatphobic remarks” Fatphobia is a thing Graham?
Abrams made the homophobic and body shaming remarks. There fixed it for you.
Jaroslaw
Didnt I read here where a judge apologized for name calling but the lawyer gets suspended? If everyone is equal, why do we have to stand when the judge enters the court?
greybat
Because A judge enters Courtroom as the Representative of the Law, and rising is intended to show respect not for the Judge, but for the Law itself.
Tombear
What about us chubby chasers who LOVE fat gay men?
Itsonlythetruth
Usually anyone who says they are not a bigot or homophobic, actually are. A gay friend or family member doesn’t give you an excuse to use offensive language.
Black Pegasus
Where is his photo?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Its possible he may have had a valid point.