Rivermanfan wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:54 am
BlueinNy wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:32 am
Rivermanfan wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 6:31 am
Fired for bigoted remarks. Good riddance.
I respectfully disagree, nothing he said was bigoted, if they come to a country because it's a better place then pay respect to the men and women who made it a place you wanted to relocate to.
I respect your respect. It is something that is sorely missing in this world. Just because you happen to disagree with someone doesn't mean you can't exchange opinions. Let's bring it home with
Thank you!!
that's weird, because your previous comment seems to say that if you don't agree with something someone said, they should be fired.
firing someone who has brought decades of revenue to the company because of a couple sentences that were clearly only his opinion (not that of the company) is pure chicken shit, and the way of the world today. ridiculous. if people don't like what he said, they are very free to change the channel and not watch, make the company see the impact in that way. my prediction is that there may have been a very slight dip in viewership that would have been very temporary and by next week no one would remember/care when the next thing to be outraged about happened, but we will never know.
for me personally, from the clip i saw, i don't really understand why what he said is offensive to someone. seemed to me he has very strong opinions on how people should honor veterans. granted, i am not canadian so i may not fully understand. but i do know that he has said far more obviously vile, terrible things over the decades and retained his job. companies feel no sense of loyalty to someone that served them well for a long time anymore. throw you to the wolves to get some "atta boy" press, co-opting the current uber-PC mindset via an unwilling, unknowing sacrificial lamb. no thought even given to maybe, say, pulling someone out of their daily job temporarily for some kind of sensitivity training, an opportunity to explain themselves, nothing. just, gone. i've seen it happen so many times in the last 5-10 years, and it's extremely distasteful and infuriating. i'm not a HNIC/cherry guy, so i don't know if maybe they've tried this with him before, given his record of saying pretty terrible things, and were just "done" with him in this specific case. even in the best-case scenario here though, what is don cherry going to learn from this? has firing him improved his mindset? not that one employee's thought process should be a company's responsibility, but should the company maybe have had the back of their employee and invested some small amount of money into trying to educate him and given him the opportunity to learn/grown/recant? he's certainly earned them plenty over the years. again, i don't own a company so i don't really know the pressure companies face in this regard, but i do know that the way these companies hand programming control to advertisers is the most orwellian state i can imagine.
again, i'm not canadian, i don't watch don cherry's program regularly, never have, so i don't really have strong feelings about him, the show, or what he said either way. but the immediate knee-jerk firing of someone because of things they said is what gets me, which is universal.
EDIT: saw the comments on the "news" thread (moved them all here just now), and after watching the mckenzie explanation, i understand better. it was the "you people" intro that killed him. if he had said "canadians" or whatever instead, it seems people wouldn't have had a problem. i get that, as starting any thought with "you people" truly never ends well. it also shows that if he thought "you people" would be ok, what he actually thinks and says off-camera is probably way more ugly. all that being said, my comments about cancel culture stand.