Kaepernick

Smellyman said:

Jason P said:

Jason P said:

If you get political in sports, you are ostracized and lose your brand appeal (see: Curt Shilling). I hope Kap is putting the $11M he makes this year into a savings plan.

^^^
Correction:  I was wrong.  You can call the president of the united states a white supremacist and your employer just offers a light apology.

He's not?

Jason P said:

Just calling spades as spades.  The point being that Curt Shilling tweets an offensive meme and gets canned by ESPN.  Another anchor goes on offensive series of tweets about the POTUS and ESPN just offers an apology.  Not helping ESPN's image of being the liberal agenda.  Maybe Kaep can get Curt's old job.

Jason P said:

Just calling spades as spades.  The point being that Curt Shilling tweets an offensive meme and gets canned by ESPN.  Another anchor goes on offensive series of tweets about the POTUS and ESPN just offers an apology.  Not helping ESPN's image of being the liberal agenda.  Maybe Kaep can get Curt's old job.

Jason P said:

Just calling spades as spades.  The point being that Curt Shilling tweets an offensive meme and gets canned by ESPN.  Another anchor goes on offensive series of tweets about the POTUS and ESPN just offers an apology.  Not helping ESPN's image of being the liberal agenda.  Maybe Kaep can get Curt's old job.

"ESPN fired baseball analyst Curt Schilling tonight, two days after he shared an anti-trans meme on Facebook. “ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated,” said ESPN in a statement.

This was far from the first time Schilling crossed a line at ESPN. Two months ago, he said Hillary Clinton “should be buried under a jail somewhere.” Three months ago, Schilling joked about being fired from ESPN for his donation to Ben Carson. Seven months ago, ESPN had nothing to say about Schilling posting insane memes on Facebook. Eight months ago, Schilling tweeted a meme comparing Muslims and Nazis, and was suspended for it. Shortly after that, he emailed a long, strange rant to a blogger to clarify his thoughts about Muslims and Nazis, and was suspended for the rest of the season.

Schilling publicly and proudly proclaimed bigoted views on a regular basis. He posted repulsive things to Facebook nearly every day, frequently going from the repulsive to the despicable and continuously dehumanizing others. ESPN repeatedly and severely punished employees for far milder violations of its various policies, and yet Schilling just kept on spending his days degrading people who aren’t like him."

Looks like they gave him a lot of rope before they finally kicked out the chair...

tbergs said:

Jason P said:

Just calling spades as spades.  The point being that Curt Shilling tweets an offensive meme and gets canned by ESPN.  Another anchor goes on offensive series of tweets about the POTUS and ESPN just offers an apology.  Not helping ESPN's image of being the liberal agenda.  Maybe Kaep can get Curt's old job.

Let's clarify:

"ESPN fired baseball analyst Curt Schilling tonight, two days after he shared an anti-trans meme on Facebook. “ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated,” said ESPN in a statement.

This was far from the first time Schilling crossed a line at ESPN. Two months ago, he said Hillary Clinton “should be buried under a jail somewhere.” Three months ago, Schilling joked about being fired from ESPN for his donation to Ben Carson. Seven months ago, ESPN had nothing to say about Schilling posting insane memes on Facebook. Eight months ago, Schilling tweeted a meme comparing Muslims and Nazis, and was suspended for it. Shortly after that, he emailed a long, strange rant to a blogger to clarify his thoughts about Muslims and Nazis, and was suspended for the rest of the season.

Schilling publicly and proudly proclaimed bigoted views on a regular basis. He posted repulsive things to Facebook nearly every day, frequently going from the repulsive to the despicable and continuously dehumanizing others. ESPN repeatedly and severely punished employees for far milder violations of its various policies, and yet Schilling just kept on spending his days degrading people who aren’t like him."

Looks like they gave him a lot of rope before they finally kicked out the chair...

cp3iverson said:

I boycott ESPN now just like i do CNN and fox-news.  I wish i could just watch sports highlights and not have to see any kind of biased political material.  I don't care what side a talking head is on.  I refuse to listen to them. 

ponytd said:

Go Beavers said:

cp3iverson said:

I boycott ESPN now just like i do CNN and fox-news.  I wish i could just watch sports highlights and not have to see any kind of biased political material.  I don't care what side a talking head is on.  I refuse to listen to them. 

If a espn broadcaster tweets something true about trump, how is this effecting the content of the channel?

Do you have proof that Trump is a "white-supremacist? Yeah, he's said a lot of stupid things, and I don't really like him or follow everything he does at all, but it seems to me that if he was indeed that, he wouldn't have a black person, an Asian person or Jewish people in his cabinet.

  

tbergs said:

ponytd said:

Go Beavers said:

cp3iverson said:

I boycott ESPN now just like i do CNN and fox-news.  I wish i could just watch sports highlights and not have to see any kind of biased political material.  I don't care what side a talking head is on.  I refuse to listen to them. 

If a espn broadcaster tweets something true about trump, how is this effecting the content of the channel?

Do you have proof that Trump is a "white-supremacist? Yeah, he's said a lot of stupid things, and I don't really like him or follow everything he does at all, but it seems to me that if he was indeed that, he wouldn't have a black person, an Asian person or Jewish people in his cabinet.

 ESPN has been been bringing politics into sports for a while now. People watch sports to escape from politics and burdens of everyday life. It's entertainment. I personally don't care what anyone there believes or if they're Liberal or Republican, but their need to bring politics into all these shows definitely affects content. I understand that sports is not immune to politics or race or wealth or whatever, and it's fine to talk about it at times, but it seems that non sports content on the channel is more geared to politics or race or whatever and the only shows that don't really ever get into that are the fantasy football show and college gameday. The higher ups at ESPN have proven that they value those who follow with their political leanings and everyone else is afraid to speak out. Jemelle Hill should not be fired for having her own opinion. However, if you're going to fire others or suspend them for saying things that lean towards the right and not do anything other than issue a statement that says "we talked to her and she should apologize" for someone that speaks their mind and is left leaning, that is showing favoritism. They should at least be consistent in their discipline, if they are going to discipline at all. In my opinion, if you're not a work and you're not using a work affiliated platform, no company should ever hold anything against you for you expressing your own opinion as long as it's not violent.

I don't think it's that simple. If your employee expresses views that support a hate group or something that furthers an agenda to oppress the rights of others based solely on skin color, religion, gender or cultural heritage, that definitely should be an addressable issue, especially since most companies are strong advocates of equal opportunity and privilege as part of their mission. If they learn their employee is sharing ideals or promoting groups who stand for the opposite of what they strive to be, then why should they have to employ that person? Sorry, but wanting to cut reality out of things is exactly why it remains a problem. "Hey, don't bring your under privileged and racism talk to my football viewing experience!" Sounds like an opinion of someone who doesn't need to live with that struggle and doesn't want to be bothered by it once it's beer-thirty.