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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Hasn't he? Is this the same chatroom that says these young kids give up their lives and put in countless hours to make the NHL and deserve everyone's respect, except for the ones like Miller who never deserve to play in the league.
Can you not see the correlation of the two comments? Calgarypuck has decided the kid is a racist, #######, loser so we all feel good about being part of the mob. He won't play in the league and the discussion has already turned to who is next in this saga.
I REALLY hope nobody ever comes forward with claims and/or proof of Evander Kane, the kid picked second in the draft this year, and other POC in the league making disparaging remarks against white players, Cracker etc., because it would be tough to watch everyone choking on their responses.
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This is a fairly ignorant take on multiple levels. The biggest one, obviously, is that the board is not a monolith nor is it a mob. The opinions in this thread have been completely varied, with more instances of "it's on him to prove people wrong now" than "the NHL should ban him." Calgarypuck hasn't decided anything, and while pretending you're intellectually unique and outside of the mob, so are the majority of the posters here, based on your description of what "the mob" desires.
Suggesting this is just another casual incident of cancellation or that what Miller did was in any way equal to someone calling someone a "cracker" is so completely ridiculous that it's hard to comprehend. Funny enough, the racism Miller showed seems insignificant to the physical and mental torture he put. disabled person through. His victim could have been white, and I don't believe for a moment this would different.
The fact is, for those pursuing a public career at 18, torturing someone from the ages of 8 to 16, half a lifetime for these men, is not something that ceases to exist. It is nobodies fault but Miller's that this stopped him from being a part of the NHL today. Not Calgarypuck, not the internet in general, not Isaiah. Nobody. It was Miller. Pretending everyone you disagree with is a mob probably makes you feel pretty good, and that's fine, but until you and people like you realise that spending half your life torturing another human being is going to have obvious and direct consequences to your ability to have a high-profile, public career, I'm not sure what else to say. Torturing someone for 8 years is not ok, it's nice you forgave him the moment you heard about it, but you don't matter any more than any other random, myself included. And this result was decided because of and by the only people that do matter in this situation.