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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Maybe this is an age thing. I grew up when making gay jokes was the norm. Making AID jokes was the norm. It's great that is no longer the case, but every locker room insult was about being gay. I'm not defending it, it's just simply a fact.
I saw the clip and didn't dawn on me that he could have been doing anything but making an AIDs joke. I didn't need someone to connect the dots. This was something that if said 30 years ago (not on TV at least) there wouldn't be a debate about what he meant in my opinion, it also wouldn't have mattered.
So in one way, awesome that we need some convoluted "testing positive for rum" excuse because we've progressed to the point that making a gay joke like this is career jeopardizing. And even better that people can't seem to fathom that someone would make an AIDs/gay joke so they believe his excuse. I think that speaks highly of them and society's progress. But I'll never be convinced lol.
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I agree that overall it was a very very strange situation indeed. I didn't see anything in particular that needed any of the outrage that happened, and even if it did, aren't we all human and make mistakes ? I don't think he should have lost his job over it and I don't think Don Cherry should have either, if he had apologized and given time to make that decision.
The entire situation is very classic 2021 in that apparently you make a booze related joke, people take offence as they think you are making an AIDS /HIV joke, the people in the broadcast room are in on the joke, twitter goes crazy over said joke.
All is made well by "reaching out to guiding lights in the equity arena and the allies in the LGBTQ community"
We are almost getting to the point in society where I think people just want to be lied to and are actively craving it to calm down.
In the Don Cherry situation, if he would have hypothetically issued a statement such as " I apologize to all who may have been offended, I have reached out to members of the Canadian Legion fund who support all Canadians wearing the poppy. Canadian's and new immigrants, including Russian hockey players of all backgrounds, races, faiths and sexual orientation matter and make our country and our game #1"
Thumbs up! Perhaps that statement would have allowed him to keep his job and let people just be calm.