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The Bachelor host Chris Harrison stands down from TV special and says he is 'deeply remorseful' for 'excusing historical racism' after he defended contestant who attended a plantation-themed ball
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 13, 2021 | Rachel Sharp

Posted on 02/14/2021 5:05:29 AM PST by C19fan

The Bachelor host Chris Harrison has announced he will no longer appear in the TV special and said he is 'deeply remorseful' for 'excusing historical racism' after he defended a contestant who attended a plantation-themed ball.

Harrison, who has hosted the ABC reality television dating show since 2002, issued a statement on his Instagram Saturday saying he is 'ashamed' of the 'pain' he has caused to people of color and that he is committed to 'evolve and be a better man.'

He will also be 'stepping aside' from the show and will not feature in the After the Final Rose special due to air after the season finale, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: abc; blackkk; cancelculture; chrisharrison; thebachelor; woke
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Considering for the Woke every historical period in Western Civilization is "racist" I guess having an interest and cos-playing is "excusing historical racism" too? We can only celebrate Year 0.
1 posted on 02/14/2021 5:05:30 AM PST by C19fan
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Before you know it... Plantations, the Civil War and Lincoln will be myths from the past. Oh... And the DemocRAT party will be the party the ended slavery, instead of supporting its existence... Not the Republican party.


2 posted on 02/14/2021 5:10:38 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: C19fan

Time to add reruns of “Designing Women” to the list of TV shows no longer allowed to air, alongside “Dukes of Hazzard?”


3 posted on 02/14/2021 5:10:45 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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We have gone insane.


4 posted on 02/14/2021 5:14:34 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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I don’t watch stupid crap like that anyway so who gives a hoot?


5 posted on 02/14/2021 5:19:22 AM PST by HighSierra5
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How far does our society have to continue down this never-ending road to nowhere? We’ve collectively fallen into the trap of trying to appease that, which can *never* be appeased. History teaches us that the *only* way this ends is with massive bloodshed.


6 posted on 02/14/2021 5:19:25 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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So his career is ruined because he defended a contestant who had attended a plantation themed ball. This is beyond madness; it is terrorism to the destruction of civilization and everything it had ever been. Reality is only what the terrorists say it is today.
7 posted on 02/14/2021 5:19:32 AM PST by Truth29
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Completely ridiculous. He didn’t himself attend more did he himself put “like” on any racist flags. It was a contestant and he just defended her. So now punishment for other people vile behavior now? Great. What a future for the country. Be careful on social media. Those pictures from 2010 may come back and haunt you. I know in 10 years, they will go after people with an alcoholic beverage in their hand. It’s going in that direction.


8 posted on 02/14/2021 5:20:12 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: Yo-Yo

Rodeos will be banned soon along with NFL, NASCAR and Golf.Soon basketball will be the only option.


9 posted on 02/14/2021 5:22:22 AM PST by cnsmom
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After VW chose the name “Touareg” for its SUV they were attacked for being racially insensitive. (Or, some such blather.) Touareg means “Free Folk.” I suppose they thought that somebody calling themselves free folk and being black and Muslim would be a big winner with the liberals who buy VW’s. The attack took them by surprise. (Turns out the Touareg were slave holders among other things.) The German CEO had the right response as he said something along the lines of pi$$ off. (Presumably he said it in German which sounds a lot meaner than in English.) I think the “controversy” died then as I never heard another word. And, I think that’s the correct answer every time for everybody. If that was always the answer, rather than the stumbling apologies, cancel culture would die. I went searching for that incident so I could quote it exactly but couldn’t find it. Instead, I found this...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/03/is-vw-regretting-the-name-of-its-signature-suv/


10 posted on 02/14/2021 5:22:31 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: HighSierra5

Next up swamp people, now?


11 posted on 02/14/2021 5:23:14 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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And the DemocRAT party will be the party the ended slavery, instead of supporting its existence... Not the Republican party.


For most people that is already a truism.


12 posted on 02/14/2021 5:25:15 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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I’m sooo glad my tv is off 90% of the time and when it’s on it’s mostly old, bw movies, or jeopardy


13 posted on 02/14/2021 5:25:29 AM PST by The Louiswu (....................................................................................................)
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https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-prison-labor-african-americans-arkansas-622209


14 posted on 02/14/2021 5:25:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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There are millions of sad hateful Leftists whose greatest satisfaction is to ruin a more successful person’s life.


15 posted on 02/14/2021 5:27:06 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Well it’s a good thing there doesn’t exist a high school yearbook photo of him in Black Face alongside a person in a KKK robe. That would have been the end of...

Oh, wait a minute!!!


16 posted on 02/14/2021 5:28:13 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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Oh, brother.


17 posted on 02/14/2021 5:28:28 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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This garbage needs to stop.

Plantation weddings are NOT RACIST nor even supportive of “racist history” whatever that’s supposed to mean.


18 posted on 02/14/2021 5:30:35 AM PST by Skywise
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Cultural Genocide - everything in America’s past could be painted in a negative way and so if the left gets their way the entire history of America will be erased and replaced with a new more woke history.


19 posted on 02/14/2021 5:31:05 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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“Deeply remorseful” etc is standard verbiage for these snowflakes. Is there some CCP “head of propaganda” writing them?


20 posted on 02/14/2021 5:35:31 AM PST by albie
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