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Is it reasonable for ESPN to pull Robert Lee...

Is it reasonable for ESPN to pull Robert Lee because of his name?

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Carjosse said:
He was sidelined, they moved him to a non-televised game where he would not have nearly the same size of audience. I bet he does care, he probably got a paid a lot less.
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Do you have evidence that he cares? Do you have evidence he was paid less? Because I bet he doesn't, and I bet he wasn't. In fact for all you know he might have been the one who came up with the idea in the first place.

Carjosse said:
They sidelined him because of his name, that is beyond stupid, he is an Asian named Robert Lee announcing an ESPN game what does he have to do with Robert E. Lee.
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The fact that the game is being played at the same College where controversy over a statue of a guy named Robert E Lee resulted in death just last week.

Carjosse said:
Why do you want to discriminate people with one of the most common first and last names in existence.
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Discrimination implies that he was treated unfairly. You have yet to provide any evidence whatsoever that he was hurt or inconvenienced in anyway shape or form. For all you know it was even his idea in the first place.

Carjosse said:
If you think that is offensive I think you need to seek professional mental help
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I'm not the one offended by it. You are. You're freaking about an arbitrary decision that effected nobody's life. You're apparently offended at the idea that someone might find that offended? Are you sure you're not the one who needs to seek professional help?

Carjosse said:
You are saying it is justified to discriminate against someone solely because of their name.
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You don't seem to know what discrimination is, and you have no evidence to conclude that there was any.
 
Carjosse said:
He was sidelined, they moved him to a non-televised game where he would not have nearly the same size of audience. I bet he does care, he probably got a paid a lot less. They sidelined him because of his name, that is beyond stupid, he is an Asian named Robert Lee announcing an ESPN game what does he have to do with Robert E. Lee. Why do you want to discriminate people with one of the most common first and last names in existence. If you think that is offensive I think you need to seek professional mental help because I think you understand any ability to understand context.

You are saying it is justified to discriminate against someone solely because of their name.
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It's not discrimination, for Christ's sake. Read the goddamned statement from ESPN I posted above.

Good lord.
 
Kobie said:
Can our right-wing friends unclench now?
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I don't know man. At the rate these right wing snowflakes are melting I'm not sure anything can save them at this point.
 
MrWonka said:
Is he getting paid more? Do the announcers get a lot of on camera time? I thought we tuned into watch football?
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I would assume in a journalistic or broadcasting profession more exposure is good.

Absolve them of what exactly? What crime did they commit?
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Who said anything about a crime? Just talking about what I see as reasonable/unreasonable.

Is using criteria above and beyond that of a coin flip to decide these things really considered ridiculous to you?
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Of course not. That doesn't mean that nothing's ridiculous.
 
Kobie said:
Hopefully, this article will end this idiotic argument.

That's it. Sure, it may be kinda stupid, but it's certainly not this inane kowtowing to the PC gods or some fear of reprisal from Antifa or anything like that. Can our right-wing friends unclench now?
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Thanks for the link. To be clear, my concern was less about "PC snowflakes" and more about whether people really believe most Americans are bothered by his name. Because I've seen this incident pointed to as an example of the "slippery slope" to "re-writing history."

I don't believe they are. I think Americans are bigger than that, on any part of the political spectrum. And I wanted to see if I was right. Any port in a storm of disappointing social trends, right?

Anyway, I think this thread as a whole shows that I was, one screamy person with a partisan axe to grind aside. And the further information about ESPN's decision shows that too. And that's nice to see.
 
Kobie said:
Hopefully, this article will end this idiotic argument.



That's it. Sure, it may be kinda stupid, but it's certainly not this inane kowtowing to the PC gods or some fear of reprisal from Antifa or anything like that. Can our right-wing friends unclench now?
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Thanks.

I can understand the guy wanting to get back home.
 
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