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Erick Estrada · 02-13-2015, 10:50 AM

It is something I find extremely frustrating as there seems to be no grey area anymore as you can't do anything in light humor or general speak without people jumping of the deep end making you out to be some sort of villain and cancer on society. I was a victim here a few weeks ago when I made a general statement that a poster considered racist which hijacked the entire thread with me being described as a bigot and racist despite that being totally untrue.

However I do believe if you are tweeting with followers you do have to be careful about what you say and that African AIDS joke while harmless was probably not in good taste. In that case I can see the case for her firing unfortunately given her position. That said you hate to see people lose their livelihoods because two guys were talking privately about a dongle and a female who is not part of the conversation nor a referred to in the conversation overhears it and gets him fired. To me that's complete garbage.

This leads back to a discussion I believe a few days ago in the hockey forums where people nowadays seem to have a hunger to be outraged about anything and look for any excuse to justify being outraged about a person, company, etc for even the smallest reason. It seems like people are so overly focused on the negatives in society now that you almost feel like you can't breathe and say or write anything that hasn't been proof read by numerous people and passed a screen test first.

I'm not making excuses for the real racists, bigots, etc but there has to be some middle ground where life isn't serious 24/7, 365 days a year. It's getting exhausting as part of being human is making mistakes and it's like nothing other than 100% perfect behavior 24/7 is acceptable which simply isn't possible.

02-13-2015, 10:50 AM	#16
Erick Estrada Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Fernando Valley Exp:	It is something I find extremely frustrating as there seems to be no grey area anymore as you can't do anything in light humor or general speak without people jumping of the deep end making you out to be some sort of villain and cancer on society. I was a victim here a few weeks ago when I made a general statement that a poster considered racist which hijacked the entire thread with me being described as a bigot and racist despite that being totally untrue. However I do believe if you are tweeting with followers you do have to be careful about what you say and that African AIDS joke while harmless was probably not in good taste. In that case I can see the case for her firing unfortunately given her position. That said you hate to see people lose their livelihoods because two guys were talking privately about a dongle and a female who is not part of the conversation nor a referred to in the conversation overhears it and gets him fired. To me that's complete garbage. This leads back to a discussion I believe a few days ago in the hockey forums where people nowadays seem to have a hunger to be outraged about anything and look for any excuse to justify being outraged about a person, company, etc for even the smallest reason. It seems like people are so overly focused on the negatives in society now that you almost feel like you can't breathe and say or write anything that hasn't been proof read by numerous people and passed a screen test first. I'm not making excuses for the real racists, bigots, etc but there has to be some middle ground where life isn't serious 24/7, 365 days a year. It's getting exhausting as part of being human is making mistakes and it's like nothing other than 100% perfect behavior 24/7 is acceptable which simply isn't possible. Last edited by Erick Estrada; 02-13-2015 at 10:55 AM.