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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Most of the visible minorities i talked to were not offended. None of the visible minorities i talked to who watched don cherry growing up were offended. And I'm colored, so I know a lot of visible minorities. Do you know why we weren't offended? Because we took what he said the way he meant it, not the way he said it. Most of the visible minorities offended either dont watch hockey night in Canada, didn't watch don cherry growing up or are liberals living in outrage culture land.
The thing about being a visible minority is that you learn very quickly that what people say and how they say it is very different from who they are and what they mean. You learn to pick up on non-verbal body languages and see the nuances in their actions. I rarely judge how racist someone is by what they say or how they say it because how people talk and how they say things are often a byproduct of the era and location of when and where they've lived. A 24 year-old racist in 2019 is going to sound much less racist than an 85-year old non-racist.
I continue to believe that it's hard to come to the conclusion that don cherry is a racist when you put the rant into the context of:
1) previous don cherry rants
2) previous 85 y/o don cherry rants
3) all the charity work and community service don cherry does and has done in the past
4) the fact that no visible minorities in the NHL have ever said anything bad about him
5) the fact that there hasn't been a single instance of anyone colored every saying "I personally interacted with Don cherry and he's a bigot"
Don Cherry is a good guy (and a blow hard, loud mouth). He's not politically correct. He mispeaks. It happens. He didn't mean it the way it came out. It came out the way it did, he and he should have been able to go on the air and clarify his words.
Instead, a guy who has DECADES of showing us the quality of man he is through his action...who should have been able to go out on his own terms...was judged on his words that were taken out of the wider context and treated like garbage because of outrage culture.
It's a shame.
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Wow, well done. That expresses my point of view.