There's A Lot More Going On Than Political Correctness
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:53 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Wearing blackface is okay so long as you're a leftist. 
Everything is okay, as long as you're a leftist.
N_Fiddledog @ Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:07 pm
A clip from a larger post by American Thinker. Echoes my opinion so I'll repost it.
$1:
So, what exactly happened? Basically, Don called out immigrants for not following the Canadian tradition of wearing poppies in support of veterans.
“You people… come here… you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy… these guys paid for your way of life… these guys paid the biggest price.”
On the Cherry scale, it was throwaway. A nothingburger. Even Ron MacLean, Don’s slippery sidekick, nodded along. The mob saw it differently. They brayed for Don’s scalp and Sportsnet fired him two days later, on Remembrance Day if you can believe it. To nail the coffin shut, they dug up objectionable dispatches -- by today’s standards -- from Cherry’s checkered past. They lectured us on the military contributions of non-whites. They reminded us the NHL had no black player until 1957 and that women were underpaid. Ratings tanked, but this was bigger than ratings. Wasn’t it?
Overnight, MacLean changed his tune. He called Cherry’s comments “hurtful, discriminatory and flat-out wrong." He hosted a nauseating discussion on race and gender in hockey. He flagellated himself and whites everywhere. He denounced, he prostrated -- then he pivoted to pious lecturing.
Pure cringe, but that’s Ron. His spine is as flexible as any politician, and he’s no dummy. He recognized capitulation was the only way, and went all in. He took a leadership role in the moral preening. Whites -- especially men -- must know their place. Whites must shut up and listen. Simpering submissiveness is the only acceptable posture for white males tiptoeing through a minefield of career-destroying social topics.
Of course, this was the antithesis of Don Cherry. Don was an unpleasant relic of a different age, a golden age when men had balls, and countries had borders. When people had pride and optimism. Even white people.
Back in the day, we looked at Cherry with awe. The truth is, we still have their ilk in sports commentary -- swashbuckling, devil-may-care personalities -- they’re just not white. Guys like Barkley and Shaq and Stephen A. Smith say what they please -- especially on matters racial. Damn the consequences.
Meanwhile, the alpha white male has been neutered and replaced by the pencil-neck hall monitor. And we pretend not to notice.
“You people… come here… you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy… these guys paid for your way of life… these guys paid the biggest price.”
On the Cherry scale, it was throwaway. A nothingburger. Even Ron MacLean, Don’s slippery sidekick, nodded along. The mob saw it differently. They brayed for Don’s scalp and Sportsnet fired him two days later, on Remembrance Day if you can believe it. To nail the coffin shut, they dug up objectionable dispatches -- by today’s standards -- from Cherry’s checkered past. They lectured us on the military contributions of non-whites. They reminded us the NHL had no black player until 1957 and that women were underpaid. Ratings tanked, but this was bigger than ratings. Wasn’t it?
Overnight, MacLean changed his tune. He called Cherry’s comments “hurtful, discriminatory and flat-out wrong." He hosted a nauseating discussion on race and gender in hockey. He flagellated himself and whites everywhere. He denounced, he prostrated -- then he pivoted to pious lecturing.
Pure cringe, but that’s Ron. His spine is as flexible as any politician, and he’s no dummy. He recognized capitulation was the only way, and went all in. He took a leadership role in the moral preening. Whites -- especially men -- must know their place. Whites must shut up and listen. Simpering submissiveness is the only acceptable posture for white males tiptoeing through a minefield of career-destroying social topics.
Of course, this was the antithesis of Don Cherry. Don was an unpleasant relic of a different age, a golden age when men had balls, and countries had borders. When people had pride and optimism. Even white people.
Back in the day, we looked at Cherry with awe. The truth is, we still have their ilk in sports commentary -- swashbuckling, devil-may-care personalities -- they’re just not white. Guys like Barkley and Shaq and Stephen A. Smith say what they please -- especially on matters racial. Damn the consequences.
Meanwhile, the alpha white male has been neutered and replaced by the pencil-neck hall monitor. And we pretend not to notice.