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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.
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Well, for one, as Yamer just pointed out, he’s come out and said he meant what he said, so taking it “the way he meant it, not the way he said it” seems to just be ignorant of what he meant.
On the other side of it, I wasn’t offended either. But hey, why would I be? I’m not an immigrant... are you? Because being a visible minority and an immigrant, while linked in this situation, are not the same thing. Someone who is a visible minority being offended would be the same as an American immigrant being offended, like... of course you weren’t, that’d be ridiculous. I get offended sometimes when who I am is directly attacked, but I’m not going around getting offended at every comment about every “adjacent” or linked community, are you? Is this some sort of notable exception for you?
My overall point is that you’re making a lot of assumptions from a position without a lot of relevance. I wasn’t offended, but I’ve got enough awareness to realise that, even despite having grown up with that context and watching Cherry for the majority of my life, I can understand why people were offended and see his comments for what they were (either xenophobic or trolling, Cherry is above neither).
I also find it interesting that you and other are advocating for this grander context to judge his comments. But you don’t seem willing to judge his firing by any wider context. It’s outrage culture reacting to a singular moment, instead of a broadcaster who has lost his touch and has been at his end for half a decade at least, teetering on the edge of dismissal for the last year, making a comment and finally seeing the end because he couldn’t even apologise.
Cherry went out on his terms. To pretend otherwise is to not understand Don Cherry in the slightest.