As a minority, here's my take (not that it supersedes any non-minority's say in Don's comments).
The comment "you people" is pretty xenophobic to be more precise because of his history and to some degree the history of the phrase. It's not racist unless he's mentioning specific races, so unless he were to explain himself, I'm not jumping to conclusions and calling him a racist. I guess we're all about going into outrage culture rage mode when someone says something that they don't agree with, and certainly I found his comments distasteful, but to be clear, he was espousing his theory that immigrants (wherever from), don't support troops from years past. It's his theory. Is it right or wrong? That's for some marketing company to verify if his theory is correct or not. There are so many reasons for not wearing one though.
If an immigrant hasn't understood the history of the war
If there's financial hardship
No need to virtue signal, but made a contribution
Fell off
Frankly though, does wearing a poppy make you more of a citizen than someone without? Why doesn't the government support vets more instead of relying on citizen contributions to the point where it's shameful if you don't wear a poppy? Frankly, personally I like Cherry for nostalgia reasons, but I detest bringing any politics to sporting events. Don does that too much recently and it becomes washroom break at that point. I hope he doesn't lose his job over this because it's not fire-able IMO. Personally, I'd do away with anthems at the start of the game too but that's just to get any politics out of the way - this isn't the Olympics.
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