Posted on 07/14/2018 4:43:35 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Papa John’s pizza founder John Schnatter resigned Wednesday as chairman of the board after he apologized for using a racial slur during a conference call in May. After news of Schnatter’s use of the N-word during a training call, Major League Baseball indefinitely suspended its Papa Slam promotion with Papa John’s, Yahoo Sports reported.
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OK - help me here. I have not really been following this story. I gather he used the “n” word. Once, twice, a million times? In what context? Why not just strip him naked and march him thru the streets?
What makes him, and HIS use of the word, so special?
His public flogging is pending....
Give the whack job libs time.
The N word was used to dehumanize and denigrate black people during slavery.
It’s a bad word.
Papa John’s used it during a conference call comparing the N word to something..
He then received controversy.
I believe most people don’t see these phony, holier than thou hypocrites as courageous heroes-—merely self-serving cowards who hope to make a buck off appealing to persons of color and ignorant Millenials (actually all Millenials are ignorant. Sorry.)
I’m familiar with the term, having heard it before. I also know it can, depending on the context and the speaker, be hateful. Is he a known racist? What was the comparison? Who will be next?
Even more scary is that within 24 hours he resigned. He left in shame.
What else do these promoters want ? They want him hung in the town square ?
He’s fired - gone. Lost a huge amount of money and will never work again. They still want to pull from the company ?
I don’t get what else they want Papa Johns to do. I know what I want them to do .
Make an edible pizza for a change. Yech.
All concert venues must immediately ban every rapper who has used the word.
It’s a setup. this call in May was a human resources/public relations thing to “correct” the situation after his comments about the NFL protests awhile back.
He said it in reference to someone else’s use of “the word”. When the Knights of Ni are going to persecute people for saying “it” but not tell them what “it is”, they are playing word games.
Someone else on the conference call was triggered by him recalling racist crimes against black people being in the news while he was growing up in Indiana.
Look at his political support and not what he says, that is why he is being shunned. Anything else is just the rope to use to hang him.
It was the same with the Mozilla founder. He donated money to the prop 8 campaign (which passed by popular public vote). Someone at the IRS leaked the donors names and he was fired.
Nothing he said, nothing he illegally did.
Political purging of corporatist America by the far left.
He merely quoted someone else using the term. That’s it. Total savagery of overreaction.
The rats are sending a clear message: support Trump and/or his policies and pay a price. They are very successful at destoying people to accomplish their goals.
Schnatter mentioned in a conference call that KFC Colonel Sanders used the n-word all the time and never paid the price, yet he (Schnatter) had merely mentioned that Papa John's sales were down because of the anti-American NFL anthem kneeling and he's crucified in the press.
Schnatter didn't call anybody the n-word nor did he condone its use. The teams that are dumping Papa John's are doing so because they have rat owners or because they fear rat backlash if they don't. Either way, the rats win because the right is intimidated into silence. The rats never win on ideas, they win through lying, cheating, intimidation and crime.
The 27-67 Royals don’t need pizza, they need pitching.
He should have just started singing a rap song tribute.
Either all words are all for everyone or no words are for everyone.
I believe it was a set up so some people could express their false outrage. He merely said something to the fact that Col. Sanders said “n” often. He used it in the context that Col. Sanders said the “n” word. Ridiculous.
Who makes up these rules regarding what we are forbidden to say? I recall long ago somebody losing his job because he mentioned fried chicken.
What is unfair and totally Orwellian is that we are often not told in advance what we are not allowed to say. The "laws"are sprung on us afterward.
The exact context has not been reported.
Essentially he was in “sensitivity training” for disagreeing with the NFL kneelers and saying that it was affecting pizza sales as well and this had caused a PR backlash at the company.
There was some discussion as to PR blunders and what things not to say and do and Papa John said “Colonel Sanders called people n—— and he kept his job” (more or less)
For this he was and is crucified because the only thing anyone is hearing is “he said the n word!”
Because it’s a “#FakeOutrage” that imbeciles can relate to
Bright guy. Or not.
+1.
Yes, count the Washington Nationals in that group.
Doesn’t really ‘bother’ me one way or the other because I DROPPED Papa Johns when the ‘board’ chastised him for questioning the NFL motives while I figured PAPA JOHNS should have cut ties with the NFL.
Would really rather the MLB had cut PJ ties over their acceptance of the NFL stance on demonstrations.
Another reason (Johns ouster) why you should ALWAYS keep .50000000000000000000000000000000001% of your business so the rest can’t rise up against you (INCLUDING family).
When you go an ‘RCH’ under 50% ownership, you no longer own the entity.
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