Racial Tension in the U.S.

Real Deal said:

Curt Schilling got fired for questioning bathrooms.

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Mmmmm not so much.

David. said:

Nothing bro. There's nothing they could do. It's all slanted hard left.

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Exactly this. ESPN is doing everything they can to push themselves as "progressive" which, given their roots, is a tragedy. They will let their talking heads cater to the left when it comes to talking politics as much as they want. They also eat up being able to place a woman in a Sunday night baseball or Monday night football booth. This is their whole agenda.

Yes, employees should be held to the same standard. No, at ESPN, they clearly aren't.

I hate having to turn on that channel to watch live sports because the entire network has deteriorated over the past five years thanks to initial strong reviews of Skip Bayless and Screamin' A. Smith and their 'willingness' to talk about shit like politics because Cowboys dick sucking and LeBron hating 365 days a year wasn't enough to fill up their new two hour time slot.

Supporting that network feels grimy at this point for me because it's become pretty clear what they're all about, and it's no longer simply sports news and highlights.

If I was one of Hill's white coworkers I probably wouldn't feel comfortable around her. At the least she seems to have some prejudice against white people.

Nothing Jemele said was wrong...

I mean, really, if you don't want people calling the man a white supremacist, then he should stop surrounding himself with white supremacists, talking like a white supremacist, and doing things that get the David Duke stamp of approval.

I understand the right trying to be angry about this.

They're really trying to find this double standard argument.

Is comparing all Muslims to Nazi's the same as calling Donald Trump a white supremacist who has empowered them?

No, I'd argue not.

AZ_ said:

I understand the right trying to be angry about this.

They're really trying to find this double standard argument.

Is comparing all Muslims to Nazi's the same as calling Donald Trump a white supremacist who has empowered them?

No, I'd argue not.

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Well only one of those things happened, so..

Schilling apologized while Jemele Hill 1) very likely won't and 2) won't mean a word of any apology if one happens.

czvo said:

Nothing Jemele said was wrong...

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Amazing that Drumpf supporters are upset when someone actually "tells it like it is"...

216 said:

Amazing that Drumpf supporters are upset when someone actually "tells it like it is"...

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Ahh there it is.

216 said:

Amazing that Drumpf supporters are upset when someone actually "tells it like it is"...

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I just don't get what there is to be mad at in this instance. Nothing that was said was inflammatory, nor was it without merit.

I see people comparing it to Schilling, but the shit that guy was posting was both inflammatory and without merit.

What I find interesting are the people getting upset seem to recognize that, on a fundamental level, white supremacy is not a good thing. They believe it is a bad thing or an insult. And yet, they fail to see that Trump is doing things white supremacists want, and that he has surrounded himself with them.

It's just weird.

czvo said:

Nothing Jemele said was wrong...

I mean, really, if you don't want people calling the man a white supremacist, then he should stop surrounding himself with white supremacists, talking like a white supremacist, and doing things that get the David Duke stamp of approval.

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Nothing she said was wrong? So it's perfectly okay to slanderously accuse someone without a shred of proof?

czvo said:

I just don't get what there is to be mad at in this instance. Nothing that was said was inflammatory, nor was it without merit.

I see people comparing it to Schilling, but the shit that guy was posting was both inflammatory and without merit.

What I find interesting are the people getting upset seem to recognize that, on a fundamental level, white supremacy is not a good thing. They believe it is a bad thing or an insult. And yet, they fail to see that Trump is doing things white supremacists want, and that he has surrounded himself with them.

It's just weird.

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"The President of the United States is a white supremacist."

You really see nothing inflammatory there?

MediumBaller said:

Ahh there it is.

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Uhh, what? You're in the Trump thread mad that congress made a bill so that he disavows white supremacists, because he reluctantly has and even backtracked, so how are you really upset that someone called him a white supremacists?

MediumBaller said:

"The President of the United States is a white supremacist."

You really see nothing inflammatory there?

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The fact that it's true is inflammatory.

216 said:

Uhh, what? You're in the Trump thread mad that congress made a bill so that he disavows white supremacists, because he reluctantly has and even backtracked, so how are you really upset that someone called him a white supremacists?

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Because the disavowal game is a pointless waste of time. He disavows David Duke on a Friday, they turn around on Sunday and ask him again if he disavows David Duke. It's never ending. I would prefer Congress spend their time on matters that actually help fix the many things wrong in this country. Congress is great at virtue signaling, not so much at helping their constituents.

czvo said:

What I find interesting are the people getting upset seem to recognize that, on a fundamental level, white supremacy is not a good thing. They believe it is a bad thing or an insult. And yet, they fail to see that Trump is doing things white supremacists want, and that he has surrounded himself with them.

It's just weird.

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They see it, they know it. They just don't want anyone else to openly acknowledge it.