Posted on 08/23/2017 4:48:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
I waited to write about this story because at first it seemed too insane to be true, but alas, it's come to this.
ESPN pulled Asian-American sports announcer Robert Lee from this weekend's University of Virginia vs. William & Mary football game because they were afraid he might offend people. Why? His name is too similar to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. For the record, Robert E. Lee is white and has been dead for over 100 years.
Fox Sports radio host Clay Travis broke the story earlier tonight. From Outkick The Coverage:
In a story that seems made for The Onion, but is actually true, according to multiple Outkick fans inside ESPN MSESPN decided to pull an Asian college football announcer named Robert Lee off the William and Mary at University of Virginia college football game because they were concerned that having an ASIAN FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER NAMED ROBERT LEE would be offensive to some viewers.
Did I mention that Robert Lee is Asian?
Is this even real life anymore? This might even be worse than MSESPN apologizing for the fantasy football slave draft a couple of weeks ago.
To avoid offending left wing idiots Robert Lee, the Asian college football announcer, not the Confederate General who died in 1870 and shares a name with him, was switched to the Youngstown State at Pittsburgh game and Dave Weekley will now call the William and Mary at University of Virginia game.
ESPN pulled Asian announcer Robert Lee off the UVa home opener to avoid offending viewers: https://t.co/2Oz22i4Vpx— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 22, 2017
ESPN confirmed the decision to Travis after he wrote about it.
“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue," ESPN said.
Travis also went on Fox News to explain further.
ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general's name https://t.co/T5KI92NpQm pic.twitter.com/Zs2WtHg8us— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 23, 2017
The news has been confirmed by multiple outlets.
ESPN just emailed me the same statement Clay Travis got. pic.twitter.com/BE5YCKx3qs— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 23, 2017
So, here we are.
It sure seems discriminatory, at a minimum, to reassign an Asian-American's job based on him having the same name as a dead white guy. But hey, if it kept a few people from getting triggered, who cares?
That’s racist!
Does DisneyESPN think he culturally appropriated the name?
Another milepost on the road to national suicide.
This has to be the Onion—I mean if Mr. Lee is triggering the snowflakes when he covers one football game why wouldn’t he be triggering the snowflakes if he covers a different game.
I must be a white fascist because I can’t figure this stuff out... :-)
The idiots probably did, totally ignoring that this is his family name
Sounds like it, doesn’t it?
I guess since we have micro aggressions we can now have micro triggers, i.e., any little thing sets them off.
>>Robert Lee
Laundry customer: “How did you get your clothes so clean, Mr. Lee?”
Laundry operator: “Ancient Chinese secret!”
His wife: “My husband. Some hotshot! Here’s his ancient Chinese secret...Calgon!”
My solution? Mr. Lee should change his professional name to Sum Ting Wong.
ESPN is doing liberal ‘elite’ drama queen fainting couch stuff... they are such losers.
I think it’s great! More and more people are beginning to understand there really is a disease called liberalism.
ESPN is doing liberal ‘elite’ drama queen fainting couch stuff... they are such losers.
Grown men acting like 14 year old girls ...
I rarely watch sports, when I do it is more typically when I am at a stadium once or twice a year.
I have ZERO use for “sports talk” tv networks or “24 hour sports talk” radio stations (several in my city on the AM band as I spin the dial to get to the “news” focused talk).
They are like Howard Stern without the humor, music guests, or history in radio.
They have to keep talking about SOMETHING and stats talk only gets you so far.
Just change the last name from Lee to Li. The libs will have to support an ASIAN-American. His family name probably originally was Li, but was Americanized to assimilate. This is what assimilation does for you in the USA? The bigots become well-defined don’t they?
,,,,,,,, if his name were Robt. Byrd it would have been OK .
Li! Great idea. Since Trump, liberals (and their organizations, metaphorically) are jumping up and down screaming “here I am, I’m an idiot, look at me!!!”
considering who the defendant would be, I’m sure Mr. Lee is smiling knowing that he will be on the receiving end of a few hundred thousand dollar settlement from ESPN
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