Robert Lee has been removed....
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He was recently promoted by ESPN than taken off a premier game (UVA) and assigned to Morningwood vs. Sheetstain U because of his name, color of his skin and ethnicity.
Except that Lee wanted to do it.
The "PC is ruining America" crowd is bloodthirsty and scours the internet for confirmation bias. That's all this is. It wasn't about PC. The guy didn't want to be a meme. Seems reasonable to me.
This song (from Romper Room maybe?) keeps popping into my head as I visualize some major civil war battle led by the asian general lee...
One of these things is not like the other,
One of these things just doesn't belong...
Well now you're just making things up, Virginia is almost certainly the worst team in the ACC, so not a premier game in the slightest. He's been switched to Pitt v. Youngstown. And unless you can prove otherwise I don't see how this has anything to do with his skin color or ethnicity.
Darn right he did! The last time he tried to get out of Virginia and into Pennsylvania, he was stopped at Gettysburg. Now he's headed right to Pittsburgh. Once there, there will be no stopping him in his quest to split the union
ESPN is trying to be apolitical? LOLOLOLOLOL
Edit - Just to be clear, I'm not convinced ESPN was trying to be political in this case. The explanation that Lee just didn't want the potential hassle strikes me as likely. But ESPN overall has jumped into politics with both feet over the past few years.
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MSESPN - shut up and play the stupid game. Quit doing 30 minute specials on several players kneeling during the anthem. Sports is one of our last sanctuaries from this garbage.
This is all due to the fallout from having **** (S)chap as a "journalist".
Respectfully,
Hugh Weiner
And THIS is a great example. Plenty of guys have the first name **** (d*i*c*k) but even this website thought it best for everyone if nobody ever had to read that word again.
Yours truly,
E. Normous Johnson
I don't care what side of the isle you are on. If you don't see this as completely stupid. You need to live in a bubble so you don't get offeneded by life.
Have you been paying attention the level of stupidity that is going around. At this point nothing would surprise me.
IF this is the real response, I amend my orig comments about this being stupid. I think ESPN over-reacted and over-thought but sounds like they were just looking out for the announcer. More of a comment about how we can't seem to act even a little civilized, I guess. We have to have something to get mad at.
I think ESPN never intended this to be publicly known. I really don't think they were trying to make a statement.
The General Lees (there were 200-300+ of them) were 1968-69 Dodge Chargers made by Chrysler. Probably were made in Detroit (Hamtramck), although Chrysler did have to make some in St. Louis because the Hamtramck plant couldn't meet the demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Lee_(car)
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At the end of the day they should have known this would be the reaction. If they leave him on that game there's a possibility immature people try to make jokes about it. That would have been it and those people would have been ridiculed or ignored. Now there is legitimate widespread outrage over it.
The smart business decision would have been to act like there wasn't any connection like was the case. Instead the story is much bigger news.
The smart business decision would have been to act like there wasn't any connection like was the case. Instead the story is much bigger news.
