Posted on 05/19/2024 11:53:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The city of Kansas City’s X account has apologized and deleted a post that shared the location of the suburb where Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker lives after his commencement speech at a Catholic college sparked controversy on the political Left.
The account for the Missouri city “doxxed” the three-time Super Bowl-winning kicker on X on Wednesday, offering followers a “reminder” of where he lives. After receiving pushback online, the account apologized and removed the post, claiming it was published “in error.”
“We apologies for our previous tweet,” the account posted. “It was shared in error.”
The apology was met with more backlash as more than 2,000 replied or retweeted the post, with one popular Chiefs fan account responding, “I hate when I accidentally type out a tweet and post it in error. Happens all the time.”
There is also a Change.org petition circulating with more than 90,000 signatures for the Chiefs to release Butker from the team over what some perceive as “derogatory” remarks made at the commencement ceremony. Butker is widely regarded as one of the best kickers in the league.
Many online were quick to point out that in the NFL, a league that features prominent figures accused of domestic violence, sexual misconduct, or, in the case of Butker’s Chiefs teammate Rashee Rice, endangering lives by recklessly driving at 119 miles per hour, resulting in a crash, there is not the same level of outrage as there is over Butker sharing his opinions.
One popular NFL account posted, “Yet no petition demanding Chiefs to release Rashee Rice.”
Kansas City radio host Pete Mundo pointed out that people are “more offended by Harrison Butker saying we should put God and family as priorities before career than they are Rashee Rice driving 120 mph on a freeway and putting dozens of people in immediate physical danger.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is “demanding accountability” for the Kansas City X account doxxing Butker. “I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion,” he said.
The controversy began when Butker gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic college, last week. He shared his opinions, as a Catholic, on abortion, gender ideology, masculinity, and the “deadly sin” of pride, which he says is propagated during Pride Month.
He has been slammed as sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic for his views by many prominent figures on the political Left, including the wife of his former teammate Mitchell Schwartz.
They’re sorry they were caught being religious bigots
The Dallas Felons. (Oh wait, that was BASEketball)
And the punishment should be decades behind bars.
That Guy, way back, who said, If the world hates you, remember it hated Me first.
Was glad to see the KC owner’s wife and daughter showing their class when they defended Butker.
Eubonics?
I’m happy Gracie Hunt backed Butker, but her father hasn’t said a word. Nothing so far from the Chiefs, only the left loving NFL have commented.
The Attorney General is demanding that the mayor turn over all emails from that office. It’s ironic that the mayor was offended by someone who said marriage and family was important given that he’s never met his father. That wasn’t his fault but as an adult he never married his girlfriend until she was ready to give birth.
For BSG fans, that's redundant.
Tell it to the State Attorney General who has sent a request for names of who has access to the account and posted the info. They broke the law when they used state resources to look up Butker’s address. Posting it is another crime in itself.
Commenting on this petition, Trace Gallagher of FoxNews made the observation that saying "Kill the Jews" is perfectly fine, but speaking publicly Catholic orthodoxy is a fireable offense.
First, I assume by ‘X’ account they mean Twitter.
I would bet that everyone who accesses that account already knows who it is.
My guess would be that the person who posted the ‘apologies’ reply is the same person (along with the mouse in their pocket) who posted the original statement on X.
Ebonics.
Eubonics would be the opposite of Maibonics.
(You have to laugh at something, to keep from massive rage. I need to remember what they did to Christ when he stood for such things, and how He took it.)
They don’t need to name names ,but they need to disclose that they summarily fired the person, and will cooperate in the AG’s investigation
As a native Texan, no.
The NFL already had a “Texan” team, and it’s not in Southern Oklahoma (aka Dallas).
I disagree. I wouldn’t trust them if they said they had fired the person, if the firing couldn’t be verified. And the responsible person couldn’t be verified.
Yup, agree. However, I recall reading somewhere awhile back that Jerry/Cowboys has franchise protection from the NFL for the DFW area. Meaning that there won’t be a second team in the area unless Jerry agrees to it. Don’t know if it’s true or not but he has been very public with the mayor and others that there won’t be another team in the DFW market on his watch.
What’s the name and address of the doxxer?
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