Racist Social Media Backlash on two TSN Anchors?

[Pizza]

TSN responded publicly on Wednesday to racist messages targeted at SportsCentre hosts Gurdeep Ahluwalia and Nabil Karim, strongly supporting both on-air personalities along with the network's long-standing commitment to having the best talent on its multiple platforms.

"In this day and age, it's unfortunate we continue to witness examples of ignorance and intolerance on social media," said Stewart Johnston, President of TSN. "Some, not all, of the comments posted on Twitter about Nabil and Gurdeep, spoke to the worst of social media. It's noteworthy and gratifying, however, that there was significant and rapid pushback on Twitter. Nabil and Gurdeep are two accomplished broadcasters and our viewers can expect to see lots more of them on TSN."

There was considerable backlash on Twitter as numerous racist tweets appeared after Gurdeep and Nabil hosted the late night edition of SportsCentre together on Tuesday night

http://www.tsn.ca/toronto/story/?id=416459


it's the first I've heard of it... but then again, I don't use Twitter.

Does anyone know what happened? What exactly was said?

[Erick Estrada]

Twitter was always a bad idea. I wish it would die.

[HPLovecraft]

Nope, good on TSN, though, I guess. The racist stuff must have been getting out of hand for them to respond this way?

[Jbo]

I thought they did a good job. First I have heard of this.

[minnow]

Racists are ugly and stoooopid.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

Here's a sample of some of the racist tweets from last night:

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...134034332.html

[dammage79]

Twitter, the truth about Idiocracy.

[Jbo]

Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire

Here's a sample of some of the racist tweets from last night:

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...134034332.html

Of course dome beers is on there..previous idiot poster with a terrible blog. Moron.

[1stLand]

I think those two are well dressed.

[Ashasx]

Dome beers would be one of the authors of the tweets.

Edit: beaten

[EYE_Overstand]

some peoples Kids.

[Alberta_Beef]

I'm not defending the comments but when I hear racist comments and it involves a couple of sportscasters of middle eastern decent I was expecting much worse than a series of Punjab jokes that were made in poor taste

[puckluck2]

Funny how people become racist on the Internet. Whenever I play call of duty I'm subjected to racist comments almost every single game because of my name. Never in real life though.

[_Q_]

Man what's more ######ed is the sheer amount of people that don't know the difference between Arab/Middle Eastern and South Asian.

[JeanLucPicard]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Funny how people become racist on the Internet. Whenever I play call of duty I'm subjected to racist comments almost every single game because of my name. Never in real life though.

Golden Rule 2.0: Behave on the internet as you would in real life

[Anduril]

When you offer the idiots of the world easy access to voice their opinions, you get messes like this.

[Psytic]

I thought they were good. Sometimes i'm not in the mood for the wackiness of Jay Onrait or Dan O'toole

[calgaryred]

So odd I watched them, the last thing I thought about was their race, and the color of their skin. It's amazing how some people think.

[Miniac]

I watched them but that thought never crossed my mind.

[pylon]

One of the anchors names in quesyion is Gurdeep Ahluwalia.

One of my best friends growing up was Gurmeet Ahluwalia.

Yeah......

/rivetingtalechap