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Originally Posted by Dion
Free speech has it's limitations when you're employed by someone else. You can't just say whatever you want and not have consequences for your actions. SN would have lost it's sponsors had they let Cherry stay.
Plus Rogers reputation would have gone down the toilet.
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I'd rather say that the profit sector is highly sensitive to what, in this case, can be considered negative publicity. Any cost that affects their bottom line will be moved on to the customer or in this case, their employee. Don Cherry or any other person can still say these things publicly, they just pay an immediate price. And DC can go on with his racist innuendo on his own show or podcast, he won't face legal action anytime soon (at least not to my understanding).
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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Again...most folks feel that this is likely the straw that broke the camel's back in specific regards to Cherry and the things he's had to say over the years.
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I'd raise two points here. First, the rise of the PC culture (over sensitivity, call it whatever you want) is real and at least in US peaked around 2015 in the college campuses. I don't think it's reasonable to say it doesn't have any part in Sportsnet's decision to fire DC. Second, many in this thread ( not that it's representative of anything) think that the reason he ultimately got fired was because he didn't apologize. Maybe this was the last straw that broke the camel's back, maybe it was the lack of apology, maybe both, maybe neither.
This does raise an interesting question though since DC has now been fired. Would SN have settled with an apology? Or was the pressure too high this time.