Posted on 04/21/2016 4:47:04 AM PDT by mykroar
Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday, a day after he drew intense criticism for promoting offensive commentary on social media.
Schilling, who had worked for the network since 2010 and most recently offered analysis on "Monday Night Baseball," was dismissed after sharing a Facebook post this week that appeared to respond to the North Carolina law that bars transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not correspond with their birth genders.
The post showed an overweight man wearing a wig and women's clothing with parts of the T-shirt cut out to expose his breasts. It says: "LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die."
To that, Schilling added: "A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don't care what they are, who they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."
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There was nothing “offensive” about it.
He simply should have known that no one’s allowed to tell the truth anymore.
I’m going online to buyou a Schilling jersey today before they are yanked offline.
Funny, isn’t it, how “offense” is a one-way street with liberals.
In the last three years, the ESPN “Courage Award has been given to Robin Roberts, Bruce Jenner, and Michael Sam. ESPN has demonstrated that their agenda no longer has anything to do with sports.
He should sue for wrongful dismissal but would he win? Freedom of speech? Only if it says what is “right”.
I guess they are right, there are so many transgender athletes that such disregard for their feelings, especially on a sports network, shouldn’t be tolerated. /s
There is no freedom of thought to the perpetually offended.
Pray America wakes
He should sue for wrongful dismissal but would he win? Freedom of speech? Only if it says what is “right”.
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Your Freedom of Speech can only be abridged by the government. Employers in most Conservative states have the right to fire you for wearing the wrong color shirt to work (as it should be) let alone what you might say that’s contrary to company policy. Unfortunately with social media anything you do or say is carried over from your personal life to your professional life. Something you might have said 20 years ago to your neighbor is now flashed across the world on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever other garbage site people glom on to. Rather than boycott ESPN (which I don’t watch anyway) everyone should be boycotting Facebook. Let’s get back to talking to our friends versus hundreds of strangers that are called “friends.”
We need bathroom monitors at ALL bathrooms to check each person’s penis or lack there of.
Drop trou, show me your penis, or show me that you don’t have one.
I wonder what they would do if a man turned woman entered a woman’s sport event on national TV.
If you are paying for ESPN, you are paying for the destruction of your freedom.
Go streaming.
Hunt to be offended…
APRIL 19, 2016
by Curt Schilling
is likely the easiest way to address all of you out there who are just dying to be offended so you can create some sort of faux cause to rally behind.
Let’s make one thing clear right up front. If you get offended by ANYTHING in this post, that’s your fault, all yours.
And for you people too dense to understand this one very important thing. My opinion, 100% mine, and only mine. I don’t represent anyone but myself here, on facebook, on twitter, anywhere.
The meme the world decided to rally behind that I posted months ago. The meme that some of you clowns and more of you spineless looking to be offended folks turned into something it was not. Every one of you gutless cowards, when ‘calling me out’ or calling me a racist, every one of you left out the only word in that entire meme that mattered. You had to, otherwise you’d have had to go elsewhere to find offense and create something out of nothing. Let me help you now. All of you fraudulent media folks, you lazy ass “don’t actually want to work for a story” clowns. The word you left out? the ONLY word that mattered? EXTREMIST. That word being omitted creates two completely different posts with two very different meanings. I don’t dislike or hate Muslims, or people of the Islamic faith. Ask my friends that are both. But then again you all knew that, but when you omit the word extremist you create a person that doesn’t exist and have a story with traction, even if it is a complete lie.
This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious. I didn’t post that ugly looking picture. I made a comment about the basic functionality of mens and womens restrooms, period.
See here’s the thing. I do NOT care what color you are, what race, what sex, who you sleep with, what you wear. I don’t care and I never have. I have opinions, but they’re just that, opinions. And opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they usually stink.
You know how I know you ‘offended’ people are full of crap? Because I’m not even close to any of the things you so desperately want me to be, so you can whine.
I’m loud, I talk too much, I think I know more than I do, those and a billion other issues I know I have. Like everyone one of you I have flaws, but I’m ok with my flaws, they’re what make me, me. I thank the Lord for the life I’ve been given. A life interspersed and occupied by men and women who are gay, by people of all races and religions, by men and women who dress as the other, by men and women who’ve changed to women and men. Not one decision I’ve ever made about a person has anything to do with those things I just mentioned, nor will it ever.
You frauds out there ranting and screaming about my ‘opinions’ (even if it isn’t) and comments are screaming for “tolerance” and “acceptance” while you refuse to do and be either.
YOU’RE the ones making it the issue. I don’t care, if you ask me about any of the topics it’s likely (much to the chagrin of many) I’ll answer with my opinion.
There are things I have deeply held beliefs in, things I have that are core to who I am, things I am passionate about. If you ask me about them it’s likely I’ll give you a passionate answer, whether you like that answer or not is completely up to you. I am not going to give you answers to make sure you like what I say, let the rest of the insecure world do that.
But let me reiterate, I don’t care who, what, where or why you are who you are. I care about people and how they treat others. You will NEVER in your lives find a single person who’s met me/knows me who would ever say I treated them as anything other than a human. None.
Wouldn’t you assume that all of you offended folks would have heard of me treating people the way you needed me to treat them, to be what you so desperately want me to be?
If people want to create stories or impressions where there are none, and you want/need to get offended by them that’s on you.
But for now, if you want to be offended and have that offense be by something you THINK you interpreted or you THINK you heard, go for it.
But for the love of God stop making crap up, it’s boring and it’s stupid and there are actual causes that need attention such as homeless veterans and our archaic education system.
Two benefits of this I didn’t forsee. 1) Twitter has made their “Block” far easier to use 2) You find out who your friends are when folks create crisis about you, that actually aren’t.
Hope Curt lands on his feet.
Very true, the answer is to drop facebook, twitter, google, and all the other social media sites.
At the very least, train yourself not to expose personal views when you are seen to represent your Employer. A Tv personality has to follow the Company line. The Companies are under EXTEME pressure from our Community Organizer, 0bama.
Shilling should have posted the picture under a private alias, its a great picture!!!
And Facebook claims another one. When will people learn?
Thwrefore, the Olympics are homophobic racist pigs
I can’t boycott them since I don’t have TV.
You people that watch or listen to ESPN, need to BOYCOTT them.
Send their ratings to the basement.
I can’t think of anything more ridiculous than this STUPID transgender bathroom issue.
Wherever this idea first came up, the WHOLE ROOM should have burst out in laughter.
What has this country come to when we don’t know that the men’s room is for boys and the women’s room is for girls?
Now don’t laugh. What is next, allow Muslim refugees to rape our women because that’s just their culture and we have to be tolerant of their alternative lifestyle? It’s already happening in Europe. Instead of “flash” mobs, they have “rape” mobs.
Oh and by the way, there is no such thing as a legitimate “transgender” person. Not even <.1%.
It is a MENTAL ILLNESS.
These people are SICK! They need help. By help, I don’t mean an addadicktome operation, I mean serious mental health help.
Just look at Bruce Jenner. Either he is faking it for publicity/money or he is COO COO! NUTS! (yes I think Caitlyn still has those).
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