Posted on 06/09/2020 7:37:22 PM PDT by BeauBo
Embattled CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman is resigning after he sparked outrage over his response to nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality.
In a statement Tuesday, Glassman said he decided to retire after he "created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members."...
Glassman that day criticized a statement from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation calling racism a public health issue by responding "Floyd-19." In a follow-up tweet, Glassman said the health research institute's coronavirus model "failed," and he criticized it for modeling a "solution to racism."
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Diversity of thought is forbidden.
If you don’t bleat what the rest of the sheep mob bleats, its ‘controversial’ or worse.
“CrossFit has been embroiled in controversy for the past week — first because gym owners said they were dismayed by the company’s failure to quickly put out a statement expressing solidarity with protesters or support for black athletes, as dozens of corporations did in the days following George Floyd’s death.”
LOL
There are going to be very few unscathed by the end of 2020. I just hope enough aren’t so guilt-ridden as to vote against Trump.
I would consider it a motivating force.
This guy is just the next head on a pike. There will be dozens more. It’s going to make the Salem witch trials look like a day at the beach.
At first I was upset about this - but this is the guy that threw his Chief Knowledge Officer under the bus for not supporting Pride Month 2 years ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/crossfit-embroiled-lgbtq-pride-controversy-n880931
You might be wrong. I give you 2008. White guilt put that bastard Obama in the White House.
There going to be many scathed for the racist pandering to hate groups like BLM and Antifa.
6 police officers were murdered by rioters last week. Ordinary Americans, unlike the professional political machine and it toadies in the Fake News, are noticing the racist behavior by both coroprate, and poltical, groups.
As usual the political Left has wildly screwed up the optics here.
Boy I hope we don’t end up waiting until it’s too late like those poor Jewish people in Germany circa 1930s
They were only 1 percent of the population and had no guns.
But if they take us apart piecemeal it can be done.
Not today or next week or maybe even next year.
But some day they will come for us
The thing is that these folks cave because they do not want feral folks to burn down businesses and maim or kill people. They think it will go away if they bow and put out statements saying how horrid they are because they are not black. They have a rude awakening.
Too bad that Americans decided money and stuff were more important than God.
Comrade needs to get his head adjusted.
“Winston, how many fingers am I hold up?”
Lot of that going around.
IMO the basis is that
advertising marketers want the most manipulable, least rational, people. And will pay for them.
So rational thought is forbidden from the media -which is our ‘public square’- by basic economics.
I remember when marketeers sold American products on TV, now they sell international products- but the media is still protected by the First Amendment.
Which was never intended to protect foreign propagandists.
You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind! (Hosea 8:7)
I think that the Sponsor (Reebok), is the reason for Glassman’s departure. They signed a ten year sponsorship deal, with significant money involved.
They may have some public relations/behavior/misconduct provisions.
I feel like that poor old man in "Cabaret" while everyone else around him was singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".
God money I’ll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don’t want everything he wants it all.
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take it
No you can’t take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I’d rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re going to get what you deserve.
-Nine Inch Nails
Not sure they have to go to the trouble to round us up and shoot us. What we are witnessing is astounding in my view. Of course we have been watching public and business propaganda and conditioning for years. But it has now ratcheted up like a step function to a whole new level.
They will bully and brainwash the public into agreeing with them on everything and then shunning and isolating us into extinction. Trump had four years to deal with social media monopolies and yet nothing has been done. Maybe a Barr Hail Mary pass is coming but I won’t hold my breath.
Revolution is coming. I won’t call it a civil war because I don’t think they will need to fire many bullets.
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