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Louisville Removes Papa John's Name From Football Stadium, Business School...
Deadspin ^ | 7/13/18 | David Roth

Posted on 07/14/2018 3:36:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A week that began with reports that Papa John’s founder Papa “John” Schnatter somehow worked an overt hard-r racial slur into a conference call with a marketing company is ending with the removal of Schnatter’s name from virtually everything on which it had previously been emblazoned. There are only so many of these left at this point, but the University of Louisville announced on Friday that it would begin the work of prying Papa’s brand off their football stadium and, uh, The John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at the Louisville College of Business. He had already withdrawn from the school’s board of trustees on Wednesday, and had stepped down from the school’s Athletic Association back in April.

After Wednesday’s rash of slur-driven disassociations—MLB’s “Papa Slam” promotion and Schnatter’s status as his own company’s chairman of the board were...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: doublestandard; johnschnatter; language; overreaction; papajohns; pizza; race; schnatter
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I am open to different opinions, but is this overkill? The guy states a fact of history and he is now no longer a part of society?

I heard a report on local Miami media today that said the company this man founded is attempting to eradicate his presence from their history....or something in a similar vein.

Am I alone in thinking this is absurd? The N word is used ALL THE TIME without punishment by "artists". Does John hate black people?? Or did he merely make an accurate observation about KFC's founder?

And why is KFC getting a pass if this kind of language is now deserving of being banished? And what about the "artists" who use it constantly?

Please tell me what I am missing.

I tell you if I were a multimillionaire, I would be VERY reluctant to donate to a school if it were susceptible to erasing my contribution to the institution.

While we're at it, you know Louisville Kentucky was named after Louis XVI of France. Maybe a little research would unveil some horrible racist attitudes of this French monarch and the school would drop its name and call itself the University of Obama. I am half serious.

1 posted on 07/14/2018 3:36:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Can’t be overkill. It’s gotta be off with the head-no less.


2 posted on 07/14/2018 3:40:13 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m sure there are plenty of fools that would have all the schools and colleges named b.o. institution of learning #_______.


3 posted on 07/14/2018 3:42:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This social purge is being fueled by Cultural Marxism. Wait until this becomes conventional tactics. We will wish we were living in the old Soviet Union when this goes full monty (or zero monty when you are castrated).


4 posted on 07/14/2018 3:42:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (/)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

We are past entering troubled waters.


5 posted on 07/14/2018 3:42:18 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: SoFloFreeper

He should seek to get his money back.


6 posted on 07/14/2018 3:43:28 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I hope they refunded all of the money he donated if they were so offended by him.


7 posted on 07/14/2018 3:43:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Make Atlantis Great Again.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is over nothing except leftist extremism.


8 posted on 07/14/2018 3:44:47 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: BipolarBob

This david roth sounds like a real left wing parasite dirtbag.


9 posted on 07/14/2018 3:44:50 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: SoFloFreeper

I think it’s over-kill just like everything else today- protest, wipe away history.

I am still waiting for former KKK member, Sen. Byrd’s name to be wiped off every library, street and building.

If I was Poppa John, that is what I would say in a news conference.

I love Poppa John’s sandwiches and will continue to eat there.


10 posted on 07/14/2018 3:45:28 PM PDT by Engedi (The)
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To: Jonty30

Pull everything back bought with that money if at all possible.


11 posted on 07/14/2018 3:46:44 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So I guess Robert Byrd’s name is being scrubbed with the same vigor.


12 posted on 07/14/2018 3:46:49 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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These phony holier than thou hypocrites wait for someone, somewhere to look like a white supremacist domineering Nazi and they will create one from a humble man in order to destroy him in public for political gain.


13 posted on 07/14/2018 3:46:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You take my name off of a building I sponsored I want the money back.


14 posted on 07/14/2018 3:47:12 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SoFloFreeper

They’re just using the paula Deen method of Erasure.


15 posted on 07/14/2018 3:47:33 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Okeydoker

Note to self: if I am able fortunate enough to donate big bucks to any institution make certain to include a refund clause if they ever disavow me.


16 posted on 07/14/2018 3:48:15 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

A liberal dim leader is immune, living or dead.


17 posted on 07/14/2018 3:48:44 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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I think he said our newest franchiser is here.

18 posted on 07/14/2018 3:49:43 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Mouton

If said institution balks, move on.

A good litmus test.


19 posted on 07/14/2018 3:50:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is why it is folly to name any structure after a living person or corporation.

The situation is too fluid and people are fallible and corporations go after profits.

I don’t know how many times the Titian’s home stadium has change while Neyland stadium(The Tn Vols home) has remained.

Folly.


20 posted on 07/14/2018 3:51:48 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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