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View Poll Results: Should Don Cherry have been fired?
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11-14-2019, 02:11 PM
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#1181
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
I mean, they weren't really that wrong....
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Racist.
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11-14-2019, 02:33 PM
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#1182
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Originally Posted by pepper24
I really hope that lady Jessica Allen on the Canadian talk show also gets fired. We'll see how CTV deals with what CBC had to deal with. Her comments also are unacceptable. No place for her either.
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She (Allen) told viewers a day earlier that she doesn't "worship at the altar of hockey" and found in her experience that those who did "all tended to be white boys who weren't, let's say, very nice," adding that "they were not generally thoughtful, they were often bullies."
The hashtag "FireJessAllen" was soon created and many hockey parents expressed anger over the comments. Allen later clarified that she was only speaking to her own experiences with specific people who were hockey players.
Quoted from https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/don-cherry-firing-reaction-ron-maclean-nhl-1.5358596
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11-14-2019, 03:04 PM
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#1183
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That's all she said? Who cares, that's her opinion, it's a little broad and I don't agree with it but that's not cause to lose her job. You're a huge wussy if some lady's opinion on daytime tv upsets you to the point of spending one second of effort to get her fired.
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11-14-2019, 03:11 PM
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#1184
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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The dude bro in this thread makes me sad.
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The hockey world is small & Jess Allen is right about it being a sport for privileged, predominantly white boys
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Let's take a guess on who wrote this
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11-14-2019, 03:13 PM
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#1186
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
That's all she said? Who cares, that's her opinion, it's a little broad and I don't agree with it but that's not cause to lose her job. You're a huge wussy if some lady's opinion on daytime tv upsets you to the point of spending one second of effort to get her fired.
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You should maybe use green text, lest that gets taken too seriously.
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11-14-2019, 03:20 PM
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#1187
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: BELTLINE
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Originally Posted by Wormius
You should maybe use green text, lest that gets taken too seriously.
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...ok? I guess not frothing at the mouth trying to get someone fired is a controversial take these days.
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11-14-2019, 03:25 PM
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#1189
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by hwy19man
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And finding a way to explain to my seven-year-old son why there’s no famous Coach’s Corner music blaring and no bright tie and jacket to comment on.
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First world problems.
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11-14-2019, 03:31 PM
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#1190
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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
...ok? I guess not frothing at the mouth trying to get someone fired is a controversial take these days.
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Calling her a "little broad" doesn't exactly seem reasonable.
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11-14-2019, 03:34 PM
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#1191
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Originally Posted by Wormius
Calling her a "little broad" doesn't exactly seem reasonable.
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This made me laugh
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11-14-2019, 03:42 PM
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#1192
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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I possibly misread that part, though the context kind of made it ambiguous.
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11-14-2019, 04:09 PM
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#1193
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Truculent!
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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Racist.
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I'm more of a spacist
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11-14-2019, 07:57 PM
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#1195
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#1 Goaltender
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https://www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...sgraceful.html
Hockey legend Bobby Orr called the Don Cherry firing disgraceful:
"I know Grapes better than anyone. He's not a bigot and he's not a racist"
Orr also described Cherry as a "generous, caring guy"
"What they've done to him up there is disgraceful. It really is."
I couldn't agree more.
Last edited by Brick; 11-14-2019 at 08:17 PM.
Reason: Spell check
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11-14-2019, 08:21 PM
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#1196
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There are a handful of NHL players and ex players who I really listen to. When they say something, including about matters broader than the game, I sit up and take notice.
Bobby Orr is not one of them.
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11-14-2019, 08:22 PM
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#1197
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
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Huh?
“Say it isn’t so”?
A guy who personally knows the man comments on his true character, and you have a problem with that?
Because he disagrees with the frothing mob of keyboard warriors who don’t know the guy?
Interesting
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11-14-2019, 08:24 PM
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#1198
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^Or because he's such a close friend he has a blind spot.
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11-14-2019, 08:24 PM
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#1199
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Huh?
A guy who personally knows the man comments on his true character, and you have a problem with that?
Because he disagrees with the frothing mob of keyboard warriors?
Interesting
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No, not really. It's one opinion among many. Not only that, he's very good friends with Cherry which means it would be nearly impossible for him to be objective about this.
I'm not mad about that, we should all stick up for our friends. But it doesn't influence me one bit.
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11-14-2019, 08:26 PM
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#1200
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
^Or because he's such a close friend he has a blind spot.
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Or because he is a close friend he actually knows him?
Lots of people would rather read between the lines and skewer the guy than take a direct unambiguous quote and even consider it.
It really reveals a lot about people
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