Quite frankly, I am amazed that remarks of that nature were not previously fed back to IFCE. What is the point of getting customer feedback if we don't act on it. As a SCCM I would also like to hear if one of my crew had made a racist remark to a customer and I'd be delighted to fly with them for as long as it took to 'develop' their sense of appropriateness.
Hardly an example of a secret plan to get rid of expensive crew, more like an overdue effort to manage the ones we can't afford to keep.