An outsiders view, two points that I'll make
1. Criticizing minorities, just as any other group, should absolutely be on the table. What matters is the critique real or not. However, criticizing minorities is automatically considered racism by some mostly with far leftist ideologies and this is especially blown out of proportion in the current outrage culture. And these people are the ones who scream the loudest.
2. Don Cherry in my opinion, is a senile man. He also comes out as a guy who is just used to bulldoze his opinion through. He's most likely a racist or discriminates to some degree, not getting into semantics here.
DC's main point clearly is, to me at least, to criticize people for not being respectful enough towards the ones fallen in military service. But in his true fashion, he delivers the message with a fully loaded barrel. This isn't something new. But depending on your political views, level of patriotism and other factors, his critique can be seen being anywhere on the axis of being important to being meaningless. Him singling out one specific group is outright stupid, no matter where you are in the political spectrum.
I don't know what the right action here should be but like someone said before, I'd personally hate to see a guy fired over this. Stupidity should be allowed but not tolerated in a free society.
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