ESPN's "wokeness" reaches it's zenith.

[soundforbjt]

It's such a huge story Tucker at Fox is centering his show tonight on it.

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's such a huge story Tucker at Fox is centering his show tonight on it.

Lol snowflake.

 

[soundforbjt]

Lol snowflake.

You should hear them right now on their current leg show.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Lol snowflake.

A snowflake is not someone calling out idiots for being stupid; which is precisely what ESPN was being in this particular instance. They did it allegedly because they were afraid of actual snowflakes getting triggered by the guys name. In short, ESPN thinks its audience is either retarded or a bunch of pantie-wetting antifa rage-monsters who will go off at the slightest provocation.

So, dear boy...

 

[ch33zw1z]

A snowflake is not someone calling out idiots for being stupid; which is precisely what ESPN was being in this particular instance. They did it allegedly because they were afraid of actual snowflakes getting triggered by the guys name. In short, ESPN thinks its audience is either retarded or a bunch of pantie-wetting antifa rage-monsters who will go off at the slightest provocation.

So, dear boy...

Adorable. Getting all uppity about it.

ESPN is owned by disney. Take it up with them

 

[FFFF]

Yep, this why I've been saying neo-liberalism and PC culture will lead us straight into a "1984" world where logic is gone and everything is an emotional trigger.

 

[soundforbjt]

Yep, this why I've been saying neo-liberalism and PC culture will lead us straight into a "1984" world where logic is gone and everything is an emotional trigger.

Naw, we heading for the movie Idiocracy with the current POTUS.

 

[Genx87]

Wow! didn't think this was real..Just how stupid does ESPN think some people are that they would be confused by an Asian dude named Robert Lee calling a football game...I wonder if an ESPN announcer says that the defense stood like a "stonewall", will he get fired?

They did this because there are people stupid and fanatical enough to get upset over an Asian American named Robert Lee calling a .football game at UVA.

 

[Ns1]

Wow! didn't think this was real..Just how stupid does ESPN think some people are that they would be confused by an Asian dude named Robert Lee calling a football game...I wonder if an ESPN announcer says that the defense stood like a "stonewall", will he get fired?

Traveler, USC’s mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee’s horse

Nathan Fenno

When Richard Saukko galloped his chalk-white Arabian horse named Traveler around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum almost 56 years ago, it was supposed to be a one-time stunt.

Instead, the brief performance before USC kicked off its season against Georgia Tech turned into one of college football’s iconic traditions. A succession of white horses named Traveler have followed — Traveler IX debuts this fall — trotting out of the tunnel as “Conquest” plays and the costumed Trojan warrior atop the horse waves a sword. But during a rally earlier this week to show solidarity in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., a USC campus group linked the name to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose favorite horse was Traveller.

At the rally, according to the student newspaper the Daily Trojan, Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, asked students not to be quiet, and reminded that “white supremacy hits close to home” and referenced the name of the Trojans mascot. …

“The problem is this: maybe three weeks ago it was fine,” Pat Saukko DeBernardi said. “So now the flavor of the day is . . . we all have to be in hysteria. . . . It’s more of a political issue. The horse isn’t political and neither am I.”

She noted that the name of Lee’s well-known horse included an extra “l” and, besides, Traveler was already named when her late husband purchased him for $5,000 in 1958, half the asking price. The horse was a fixture in movies like “Snowfire” and “The Ballad of a Gunfighter.”

“He was a movie horse and he turned mean,” Richard Saukko once told The Times. “That’s how I got him so cheap. A few months later, he’d become so gentle again, people wouldn’t believe it was the same horse.”

… He used Charlton Heston’s leftover costumes from “Ben Hur” to assemble a Trojan warrior outfit — though the armor bruised his arms.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm glad this angers you, OP. It is good to know that you are concerned about real problems.

 

[VRAMdemon]

They did this because there are people stupid and fanatical enough to get upset over an Asian American named Robert Lee calling a .football game at UVA.

Well, according to this they expected some members of the public to be too stupid to live, and they were right.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/900219648473522178

"This wasn't about offending anyone. It was about the meaningful possibility that because of his name he would be subjected to memes and jokes and who knows what else. Think about it. Robert Lee comes to town to do a game in Charlottesville. The reaction to our switching a young, anonymous play-by-play guy for a streamed ACC game is off the charts -reasonable proof that the meme/joke possibility was real.

So when the protests in Charlottesville were happening, we raised with him the notion of switching games. Something we do all the time. We didn't make him. We asked him. Eventually we mutually agreed to switch.

No biggie until someone leaked it to embarrass us and him. They got their way. That's what happened. No politically correct efforts. No race issues. Just trying to be supportive of a young guy who felt it best to avoid the potential zoo."

 

[zinfamous]

Yep, this why I've been saying neo-liberalism and PC culture will lead us straight into a "1984" world where logic is gone and everything is an emotional trigger.

so, an absence of logic and constant emotional triggers didn't elect Donald Trump? Woweewowow!

 

[VRAMdemon]

Hoping to God there was a confederate general named, Joe Buck.

 

[FFFF]

so, an absence of logic and constant emotional triggers didn't elect Donald Trump? Woweewowow!

For a centrist at least the logic was definitely there, with Hillary as president the antifa scum and other leftist bigots would've been congratulated for instigating violence instead of being criticized and the hypocrisy would've been even more rampant than it already is. Now as much of an asshole Trump is, at least with him the entire world will always be on watch whenever he'll try to pull something really stupid and call him on it.

 

[zinfamous]

For a centrist at least the logic was definitely there, with Hillary as president the antifa scum and other leftist bigots would've been congratulated for instigating violence instead of being criticized and the hypocrisy would've been even more rampant than it already is. Now as much of an asshole Trump is, at least with him the entire world will always be on watch whenever he'll try to pull something really stupid and call him on it.

Oh, this makes tons of sense, then. Please continue with your tenacious grasp on reality.

 

[zinfamous]

Hoping to God there was a confederate general named, Joe Buck.

lulz

 

[Jhhnn]

Yep, this why I've been saying neo-liberalism and PC culture will lead us straight into a "1984" world where logic is gone and everything is an emotional trigger.

You mean like Islamic Terrarists & Mexican rapists? Gun grabbers, baby killers, Sharia Law, Jade Helm & buttery males?

I'll grant that ESPN got silly about it.Other than that it's just a chance to go on about stupid libruhls.

At least we weren't gullible enough to vote for Trump.

 

[pauldun170]

ESPN made the right call and this isn't about left vs right. this is about product, branding and doing the right thing by the student athletes and fans.
It's the idiots out there trying to turn this into something its not. Retards can get all worked up now but eventually that will fade.
Better to swap him out now and have the focus of a College ball game be about the game and not the announcer + all the drama that happened recently.
The folks that are too damn stupid to realize that would probably be the first ones to spread memes and talk nonsense on game day.

ESPN subsequently said in a statement that its executives "collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding."

"In that moment it felt right to all parties," the network said. "It's a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play-by-play for a football game has become an issue."

From ESPN's perspective, the executives were trying to guard against Lee becoming a punchline, given that he shares a name with a Confederate general.

 

[FFFF]

At least we weren't gullible enough to vote for Trump.

It's not about being gullible, it's about choosing the least dangerous candidate in an unfortunate situation.

 

[Jhhnn]

Oh, this makes tons of sense, then. Please continue with your tenacious grasp on reality.

Post-truth, baby!

 

[thraashman]

Well, according to this they expected some members of the public to be too stupid to live, and they were right.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/900219648473522178

"This wasn't about offending anyone. It was about the meaningful possibility that because of his name he would be subjected to memes and jokes and who knows what else. Think about it. Robert Lee comes to town to do a game in Charlottesville. The reaction to our switching a young, anonymous play-by-play guy for a streamed ACC game is off the charts -reasonable proof that the meme/joke possibility was real.

So when the protests in Charlottesville were happening, we raised with him the notion of switching games. Something we do all the time. We didn't make him. We asked him. Eventually we mutually agreed to switch.

No biggie until someone leaked it to embarrass us and him. They got their way. That's what happened. No politically correct efforts. No race issues. Just trying to be supportive of a young guy who felt it best to avoid the potential zoo."

And it would've been no big deal if someone hadn't told a conservative commentator who chose to blow it up with only half the information. Granted, that's 49.9% more of the information than conservatives usually have, but it still makes a small effort done to avoid a shitstorm of stupid into a shitstorm of stupid.

 

[sandorski]

It's not about being gullible, it's about choosing the least dangerous candidate in an unfortunate situation.

If that's the case, you chose poorly.

 

[FFFF]

If that's the case, you chose poorly.

Noted, but I really don't think so.

 

[tynopik]

ESPN made the right call . . .
Better to swap him out now and have the focus of a College ball game be about the game and not the announcer + all the drama that happened recently.

if the criteria is to 'have the focus of a College ball game be about the game' then they failed miserably, they got 100x more press doing this than if they had done nothing

if the criteria is to get attention, then yes, definitely the right call

 

[Jhhnn]

It's not about being gullible, it's about choosing the lesser evil/least dangerous candidate in an unfortunate situation.

Keep telling yourself that. A vote for Trump was a deeply irrational act. The sooner the people who did so realize that the better off we'll all be.