Posted on 07/13/2018 5:34:41 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
The New York Yankees have joined the growing list of businesses which are distancing themselves from Papa John's. The club released this statement Friday afternoon: "In response to the reprehensible remarks made by Papa John's founder and owner, the New York Yankees are suspending their relationship with the company." Papa John's founder John Schnatter resigned as chairman of the board on Wednesday, hours after Schnatter apologized for using a racial slur during a conference call in May.
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Minnesota Twins did too.
If one person is punished for using the same word others use with impunity every day, you’re not really free.
Let’s see. Chairman of the board uses racial slur.
He thus gets kicked out of the position and off the board.
Baseball teams in turn severe relationship.
Seems backwards, as if the company is being punished for getting rid of the executive who used a racial slur.
The truth of this story Is irrelevant. He was known Trump supporter so that is sufficient to Lynch him.
So if I order papa johns tonight am I supporting him or the idiots that are trying to destroy him?
yup, i wouldnt resign.
inaread id make a music video and sing a song full of it.
Used the word during a media training exercise.
Media uses the word every day in movies and music as entertainment.
This wasn’t “for fun”.
You want a training exercise on dealing with media? FU the media. They hate all American traditions including baseball. They think the sport is too slow, the fanbase too white, too old, and no outed gay players on any trams.
And maybe run some special deals, like on the BIGGER pizza, or two of them called the BIGGER BIGGER pizza, or the BIGGER YET supersize pizza...
That should have them TRIGGERED...
Do you suppose this is another attack on our culture, this time pro sports?
Ok. I’ve read the article and concluded that he’s done nothing to warrant all this negativity. What did he do wrong ?
He said, “New York?”
He merely repeated what Colonel Sanders supposedly said about black Americans, and put in context, and is now being excoriated for it as usual if you touch the sacred cows of the Left.
I heard he used the word in a training session that had to do with customer service.
If true, his whole world is crashing down, forever, because of a hypothetical use of ONE WORD.
It’s a business these days.
It’s the bottom line.
Let’s put this in perspective.
He did not CALL someone the slur.
He was QUOTING ANOTHER person.
This fake liberal outrage is like getting mad when a white person sings rap lyrics including the N-word. You’re mad the white person said it and all outraged, but you don’t care about blacks singing it along with ho and other curse words? Shut up, hypocrite.
Most likely, however he should have not used the N-word.
It depends, are you White?
You are so right.
What was that album by Richard Pryor That N—— Crazy(1974).
And Joseph Conrad’s classic novel the N—— of the Narcissus. And Dick Gregory’s nonfiction book N-——(1964)
And I happened to hear the word used on 1,000 different rap “songs” from booming speakers in cars at stoplights all over town every single day. (on songs about degrading and raping and killing women, mostly).
We have no freedom of speech if only a privileged class of people have the freedom.
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