And now we head to South Korea for the StarCraft II World Championship Series.
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Thereâs no current issue about race and white supremacy that effects sports which would make the Tweet relevant. None at all. Nothing about a player kneeling during the national anthem and racist pushback. Good to know ESPNâs public editor is isolated from whatâs going on in the world. Jeez.
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Her âerror in judgementâ might have been to use the company account. However, her comment that Trump is a white supremacist is not an âopinionâ. It is a fact based on words from his own mouth. These were not âpersonal attacksâ.
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Iâm waiting for them to cover more competitive eating. The Nathanâs yearly July 4th hot dog eating contest is not enough. We also need kids and youth divisions.
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She used her personal Twitter account.
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The Public Editor has a defensible argument for his position on Hillâs comments, but he gets into trouble on his claims on "ideological diversityââ. His comment suggests that we must accept bigotry into the mainstream of ideological discourse, and that issues of individual rights and equal treatment under the law are somehow âleftâ. Theyâre not. Theyâre American values. That the politics of one party has become hostile to those values doesnât mean that ESPN should bow in deference and give it a platform. This is the kind of logic that CNN used to give Jeffrey Lord a platform.
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The real significant point here is trump getting annoyed at someone who calls him a bigot and then using the power of his office to squash them like a bug. Problem being the first amendmentâs proscription on the government (as in trump using his officeâs power) doing that. He gets to abuse people but nobody gets to return the favor. As a private citizen he can be annoyed but he should never use his spokesperson or his office to demand the annoyer be fired. That is NOT his purview.
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Yeah I agree. ESPN has managed to get itself involved in an important constitutional issue here. Obviously neither the president nor ESPN understand the first amendment and they need to.
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She told the truth.
Meanwhile, the legalized killing of black Americans by white police officers continues. And that is just the tip of the iceberg of what has been happening to the African-American community in our country for decades.
No justice, no peace.
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Exactly. There seems to be no acknowledgement that employees may have personal speech outside of their job with company. The question is how they have agreed to limit it when they signed their contract.
The âPublic Editorâ is talking about another issue, editorial balance â as if their anchorâs tweets were part of ESPN programming. But they arenât. It is hard to imagine a more obtuse hot take on the issue than the Public Editorâs â but this is ESPN, I suppose.
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Well, at least Twitter did not delete her account. They could have, you know.
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Awarded: One Internet.
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Itâs more than a First Amendment issueâPresident Littlefingers and his spokescreature Ma Hamhock have violated federal law.
Wrongfully influencing a private entityâs employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch.
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Apparently they donât want to lose the MAGA viewers and listeners.
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Basically, heâs saying itâs ok but only if you have the âright politicsâ.
Yep.
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Iâm aware. And just because you used Littlefingers and Hamhock, doesnât mean I didnât call it first and I still get to use them too. hahahahahahahahaha
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Well sure - they have apparently calculated that their audience is mostly white males.
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WE should all be spreading those terms far and wide across the interwebs.
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Well then FK 'EM.
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Nope, racism and white supremacy have nothing to do with sports, never have. Itâs all about the buoyancy.
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