(August 23, 2017 at 4:01 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 23, 2017 at 3:56 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: This is a big fat meh in my book. The dude is Asian with a surname 'Lee'. They didn't need to switch it, but they did. Once they decided to do it, they should have just switched it and not made an official announcement. Maybe they did that, because it seems they made the decision last week, right after the Charlottesville Nazi Rally. Sensationalized news has a way of getting out.
I refuse to get worked up about it. If they would have kept him there, meh. Now that they've moved him, meh.
For me, it's more about the fact that *anyone* would potentially be offended by an Asian guy who's name is Robert Lee. I just think that is absolutely assinine. I mean, Lee is an Asian name! Lol. Other than that, you are right that if it was a mutual decision between he and ESPN there is no reason for anyone to care either way.
You are not getting why they did that. I don't think they needed to switch his games but it wasn't because they thought his name was offensive, they were merely being sensitive to the events that just happened. It had nothing to do with ESPN thinking his name was bad.
Sensitivity, you know, like 45 has none of.
