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Originally Posted by Boreal
A 1/4 century after Graham James and the Blackhawks scandal is exposed with untold victims in the meantime. It’s hockey culture that perpetuates the abuse and the notion of Cherry funding the charities he supports ignores the ones he doesn’t. But yeah, he’s a hero bigger than anyone on this forum. Right.
Not to mention Cherry was complicit in Patrick O’Sullivan’s abuse…
“His Dad was a seemed like a nice guy.”
Cherry is a 1/2 wit who’s the physical manifestation of white privilege & the survivorship bias.
Did he work hard to get what he achieved…?
Sure.
Was he astronomically fortunate (privileged) and lucky absolutely compared to someone like Ted Nolan?
1000%
He then takes his good fortune and luck to proselytize like he has some sort of lesson or wisdom to share beyond LUCK and the ignorant notion that “working hard” with overcome cronyism and implicit biases that perpetuate racism.
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The Blackhawks scandal has absolutely nothing to do with Don Cherry.
Don Cherry espoused a “suck it up and play through everything” sort of toughness. The idea that it takes pressure to make a diamond. He’s hardly the only coach, director, maestro etc to feel that way.
You cannot find one frame of video where he condones sex abuse.
He’s about as complicit in Patrick O’Sullivan’s abuse as I am, regardless of whether or not “his dad was nice to me when I met him” was a tactful thing to say.
What, were they hanging out during the summer at Don’s lake house, or did they have a cordial interaction the one time Cherry would’ve had the occasion to meet him?
Whatever happened to Ted Nolan is also irrelevant - Cherry had been working on CBC for 11 years when Nolan was hired by the Sabres.
Your “white privilege” argument is also laughable, unless you feel like applying it to literally every coach at the minor and NHL level in hockey history.
Who was the last black head coach? Has there even been a first one?
Cherry was a Coach of the Year in the AHL and Coach of the Year in the NHL following a nearly-20 year journeyman minor league career. Like a lot of coaches, he was nothing special as a player, but if you think he didn’t know a thing or two about the way this game was at one time played, you’re flat out wrong.
Call me old fashioned, but someone who plays 20 years in the bus leagues, winning four Calder cups, might know a thing or two about perseverance.
I also didn’t say he was a hero, I said “ In charitable efforts alone, I’d guess he’s done more to help people than this entire forum put together.”
He very likely has - He’s Don Cherry. He’s been famous for 50 years, he’s probably stroked a cheque or two to worthy causes in his day.
But keep on believing he’s an avatar of all that’s wrong with the world - it’ll serve you really well when you come face to face with actual evil.