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Whitlock: The NFL canceled Jon Gruden for sins against wokeism
https://www.theblaze.com ^ | October 12, 2021 | Jason Whitlock

Posted on 10/12/2021 3:22:05 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

Based on New York Times reporting, Jon Gruden broke at least seven of the woke religion's 10 commandments. His damnation to unemployment and disgrace was inevitable. He's a sinner cast into the fiery hell of cancel culture. The woke religion disavows forgiveness and mercy. The woke cult prefers retribution for thought crimes.

Gruden is a high-profile symbol of the consequences of disobedience to the woke.

Monday night he resigned from his position as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. He resigned amid an investigation into private emails he wrote while working for ESPN as its lead broadcaster on "Monday Night Football." Gruden frequently emailed Bruce Allen, an executive with the Washington Football Team at the time. The NFL has been investigating owner Dan Snyder's football team for a couple of years. During the course of its review of emails of Washington employees, the league discovered Gruden's emails to Allen. The emails were written over the course of about 10 years and seemingly stopped in 2018 when Gruden left the broadcast booth to become head coach of the Raiders.

Late last week, while DeMaurice Smith faced a vote regarding the future of his tenure as executive director of the NFLPA, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gruden wrote an email to Allen that called Smith dumb and ridiculed Smith's big lips. Corporate media quickly framed Gruden's lip comment as racist. Smith just as quickly framed himself as a victim of a race crime and garnered the necessary votes to stave off removal as executive director.

But let's review the seven woke commandments Gruden violated with his emails, according to the New York Times.

1) Thou shalt not disparage Barack Obama. The Times revealed Gruden criticized President Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign. This is an explosive revelation. A U.S. citizen criticized a presidential candidate.

2) Thou shalt not push back against the Big Lips Matter movement. Big Lips Matter is the DeMaurice Smith faction of the Black Lives Matter movement. Many white women, particularly Instagram models and the actress Angelina Jolie, passionately support Big Lips Matter.

3) Thou shalt not question hiring practices based on sexual and gender identity. Gruden apparently felt NFL commissioner Roger Goodell overstepped his authority when he pressured former Rams coach Jeff Fisher to draft Missouri defensive end Michael Sam because Sam is queer. Gruden also isn't a fan of the NFL's policy of fast-tracking women through the referee process so the league can have more female refs.

4) Thou shalt not disagree with national anthem protesters. Gruden said that Eric Reid, a prominent anthem protester, should be fired.

5) Thou shalt not look fondly upon bare female breasts. Gruden and his male friends exchanged pictures of topless women via email. Most men do this via text string. At least that's what I've been told.

6) Thou shalt not speak honestly about Joe Biden. Gruden called Biden a "nervous clueless p---y." Seems a bit harsh. President Biden never seems nervous to me. He seems sedated.

7) Thou shalt not defend football. Gruden complained that Goodell's safety policies were an overreaction and made mothers fear allowing their sons to play football.

The hypocrisy of the people cheering Gruden's cancellation is breathtaking. These same people were quiet when actor Michael Rappaport aired out NBA star Kevin Durant's homophobic, profane, misogynistic, and threatening direct messages.

I'm consistent on all of this stuff. Durant and Gruden have a right to privacy and the right to express opinions polite society finds abhorrent. Durant apologized, the NBA fined Durant $50,000, and everyone moved on. That's what should have happened to Jon Gruden. But Gruden is white and held to a much higher standard of accountability. This is racist. The woke religion allows for and promotes racism. It also loves double standards.

The NFL recently announced that rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Enimem will star in the league's Super Bowl halftime show. Dre, Snoop, and Em have a catalogue of music that makes Gruden's emails sound like a Sunday school lesson.

Gruden's private emails make him unfit to work on the NFL's platform. Meanwhile, a collection of pornographic and profane rappers are the perfect choice to showcase on popular culture's largest platform.

The NFL's lack of self-awareness is stunning. Roger Goodell is the worst commissioner in the history of professional sports. The NFL has no guiding principles and no moral compass. It's led by the woke cult and social media.

If you remove the crass words and interpret the message, that's what Jon Gruden was really complaining about in his emails — the NFL's lack of leadership and direction.

It will be interesting to see if Gruden bends his knee and converts to the woke religion. Will he join all the other closeted men in modern America? That closet is filled with millions of heterosexual, Christian men who now live in shame of their values and beliefs because the Alphabet Mafia will damn them to hell on earth.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: whocares; wtfisthisonfr

1 posted on 10/12/2021 3:22:05 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

That’s a pretty good list!


2 posted on 10/12/2021 3:27:27 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: NKP_Vet

Offending the Woke for Fun …

… is fun.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 3:32:17 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: aynrandfreak

ESPN is already saying white owners and coaches should have their emails made public because they know white owners and coaches talk like Gruden all the time. Stephen A. Smith came out today and basically said 50% of coach’s and any other job in professional sports should go to somebody with a black face.


4 posted on 10/12/2021 3:33:54 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: Rurudyne
“Offending the Woke”

Is why the NFL leaked John's emails. They reviewed over 600,000 while investigating the Redskins. Only John's were leaked. Let's have all of them. Let's see the crap others have said. In 600k emails I am sure there is a lot more. The NFL and that piece of crap commissioner disgust me.

That said, John is a dumbass.

5 posted on 10/12/2021 3:43:06 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: MPJackal

I’d rather support dumbasses than tolerate the woke, politically correct or other Cultural Marxists.


6 posted on 10/12/2021 3:49:29 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: NKP_Vet

I like Gruden now…


7 posted on 10/12/2021 3:49:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: NKP_Vet

I think the NFL should release black players until it’s only 12% black.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 3:50:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: NKP_Vet
Gruden is white. A black stating the same gets a pass.
9 posted on 10/12/2021 4:10:09 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: NKP_Vet
My questions are -

Why did they go solely after Gruden? Supposedly they have hundreds of thousands of emails and only a half dozen from Gruden are problematic (problematic for the Wokesters)?

And.... who the f*** cares?

10 posted on 10/12/2021 4:12:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: NKP_Vet

Or did the Raiders regret giving Gruden that ten-year contract and used this as a lever to force him out?


11 posted on 10/12/2021 4:15:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: NKP_Vet
Maybe we should make the recordings of what's said in the games public.

While we're at it, let's make public the songs players listen to...what they call each other...what's in their emails...etc.

Gruden should not have apologize or resigned. Make them fire you.

13 posted on 10/12/2021 4:58:41 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: NKP_Vet

*** It will be interesting to see if Gruden bends his knee and converts to the woke religion. Will he join all the other closeted men in modern America? ***

I hope not.

Also, what happened to him regarding snooping on private emails, can happen to any one of us. We have no privacy any more. This is egregious.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 5:49:44 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: ealgeone

I’m all for that. Let’s cancel everybody, because every single person has at least one skeleton in his/her closet. We are all human.

One day cancel culture is going to have its own reckoning. I bet you there’s a skeleton there too. Count on it.


15 posted on 10/12/2021 5:53:09 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: NKP_Vet

Pussies.


16 posted on 10/12/2021 7:40:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: MPJackal

ESPN salivating over a story this morning that the Redskins will release all emails and get rid of all the white “racists” in the NFL.


17 posted on 10/13/2021 6:15:12 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

They want an all black all libtard league with a few token whites. Almost there. 🤪


18 posted on 10/13/2021 1:49:00 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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