Sports broadcasters have been fired for saying racist things on the air for decades, long before the term "cancel culture" ever entered the collective consciousness. Are our memories so short that we're forgetting about Al Campanis and Jimmy the Greek? The remarkable thing about Don Cherry isn't that he was finally fired for making racist comments about immigrants, the remarkable thing is that he was previously given so many second chances while other broadcasters who spouted similar garbage were not. If Don Chery being fired for being racist is an example of the new-fangled cancel culture that right wingers are losing their minds over, that's pretty weaksauce.
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