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Originally Posted by devo22
exactly. He's always been a raging xenophobe, it's shocking to me that some will still defend him.
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He's an 85 year old, outspoken man that was given a nationwide platform for decades because a lot of Canadians liked his brash takes. If he's always been a raging xenophobe what was the difference two weeks ago before these comments? Why was he allowed to be on the air all these decades being a raging xenophobe as you say? This is what happens when you give a person like this a big stage and really HNIC and RSN should be held accountable as this was a ticking time bomb as Cherry has been offending people for years and it was just a matter of when he was going to offend a larger portion of the population. They milk the guy for viewership and then cast him aside and wipe their hands clean like they had nothing to do with it.
To be clear I am no Don Cherry fan. The one plus of RSN getting the NHL rights at the time to me was that they had the opportunity to finally put Cherry and MacLean out to pasture. But in the name or ratings RSN kept them around. It's just sad that so many people are piling on an 85 year old man like this. How many people here have heard their grandparents say something that has probably not been politically correct but we just pretend we didn't hear it and accept it because we say to ourselves they grew up in a different era? He's an 85 year old man that has been milked for TV ratings and shouldn't have been on TV in the first place. I don't mind agreeing with him being let go but some of the comments here have been in pretty bad taste IMO.