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Originally Posted by Coach
I think it stems from a lack of accountability for the people actually responsible for the situation and very few people coming forward to speak honestly about their own part in it (basically only people who say they didn't know). It taints the whole group of people because no one knows where the responsibility starts or ends. For example, from FBS's list:
None of the bolded happened. The NHL itself is complicit by not doing this IMO. So if you agree that the above should be held to that level of accountability, but none of it happened, the only thing left is the last thing mentioned "shame and ridicule" and that's what's happening. If everyone eventually just shrugs it off and it goes away, it will be like every other version of this type of nonsense and continue to happen. So yeah maybe Blaster and myself and some others can get a bit preachy and annoying about it. If no one does, it will just be forgotten about. OR they could actually just not hire these people and avoid it. I don't feel bad for the lost opportunity for millionaires to work in a single, very niche field. There are lots of fields. Go buy a farm.
I do think it's owed a public acknowledgment, because young people are still being sent to work under these people and deserve to know. I don't really care if Beach personally forgives them or not. That's his strength, not theirs. They have still yet to do the right thing.
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I guess that is where we disagree. Hold those that should be accountable, accountable. It doesn't make sense to me that in absence of that accountability we should hold those down the scale to higher standard, or take the pound of flesh from them, because others got away with something.
I am not saying Seabrook is beyond reproach and shouldn't be asked these questions. However, I do think that his hiring and those that don't see it as a moral failing by the Flames is some form of homerism or whataboutism.