There is no fixed number of slurs required to establish a hostile work environment.

Evidence

Adopting this reasoning, the Seventh Circuit in Cerros v. Steel Technologies Inc. stated “[w]hile there is no ‘magic number’ of slurs that indicate a hostile work environment, we have recognized before that an unambigu- ously racial epithet falls on the ‘more severe’ end of the spectrum.” — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt, 222

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Title VII hostile environment claims only succeed on egregious, not merely offensive, conduct.; Habitual cumulative epithet use can permit harassment claims to reach trial — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 291

Related

• Habitual cumulative epithet use can permit harassment claims to reach trial (similarity 0.87)
• Title VII hostile environment claims only succeed on egregious, not merely offensive, conduct. (similarity 0.86)
• Employers defeat hostile-environment claims by invoking simple teasing and offhand comments. (similarity 0.80)
• Title VII does not function as a general civility code for workplace conduct. (similarity 0.79)