ESPN pulls Robert Lee

[Neo-Scholastic]

Does this make any sense to any reasonable person? Someone please tell me this is a hoax or parody site. From the linked article:

ESPN confirmed Tuesday night that it had decided to pull an announcer from calling a University of Virginia football game because his name is Robert Lee. This Robert Lee is Asian.

Washington Times

[TheBeardedDude]

It makes perfect sense to me. Especially since Robert Lee was totally okay with it and was given the option of staying on anyways.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday....592458001/

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/media/es...index.html


I give ESPN credit for trying to protect their broadcast and their anchors from the vitriol that was sure to come. But no good deed goes unpunished as the white snowflakes have now been triggered

[Minimalist]

The Washington Times is a Moonie shitrag, however the report has been covered by more reputable sources as well.

Bizarre, to say the least.

[FFaith]

Does this make any sense to any reasonable person? Someone please tell me this is a hoax or parody site. From the linked article:

ESPN confirmed Tuesday night that it had decided to pull an announcer from calling a University of Virginia football game because his name is Robert Lee. This Robert Lee is Asian.

Washington Times

I can definitely see why ESPN would think the SJW fags would be triggered by the man's name. The SJWs have been making videos recently about how it's horrible to call a woman a girl and about how racist it is for a white guy to use a Michael Jackson laughing popcorn gif, calling it digital blackface. This all sounds too ridiculous to be true, but it's only going to get ten times worse from here.

[Catholic_Lady]

Saw it on the news. Ridiculous.

[FFaith]

Sadly it's not all that surprising that EPSN thought the SJW fags would be triggered by the name. SJWs have been offended by less, making videos recently about how it's horrible to call women girls, and how it's racist for white folks to use Michael Jackson popcorn laughing gifs because that's 'digital blackface'. This all may sound hard to believe, but it's only going to be getting ten times worse.

[Divinity]

Sadly it's not all that surprising that EPSN thought the SJW fags would be triggered by the name. SJWs have been offended by less, making videos recently about how it's horrible to call women girls, and how it's racist for white folks to use Michael Jackson popcorn laughing gifs because that's 'digital blackface'. This all may sound hard to believe, but it's only going to be getting ten times worse.

Aren't you edgy using 'fag' as an insult in literal fucking 2017.

[Brian37]

Um yea, as much as I hate the KKK AND Nazis, I do find it absurd to move this poor guy.

[FatAndFaithless]

Sadly it's not all that surprising that EPSN thought the SJW fags would be triggered by the name. SJWs have been offended by less, making videos recently about how it's horrible to call women girls, and how it's racist for white folks to use Michael Jackson popcorn laughing gifs because that's 'digital blackface'. This all may sound hard to believe, but it's only going to be getting ten times worse.

Really?  It reeks to me of ESPN trying to jump on a publicity bandwagon in a desperate attempt to maintain their quickly-waning relevance.  Really seems like corporate grasping, not ESPN caving to 'triggered' 'SJW fags'.  I haven't seen any of the news stories on this topic even say that anyone wanted Robert Lee removed - it's just more clickbait desperation.  In the CNN article it even says that the decision was made by ESPN execs and Robert Lee, not driven by some public outcry.

And why does it seem that the ones complaining the most about "SJW fags" are always the most asshole-ish that get upset that other people don't want to listen to their shit?

[Neo-Scholastic]

The interesting thing about this to me is that apparently multiple people of authority at a major media outlet made this decision. This wasn't the impulsive action of some fire-brand or spineless bowing to public pressure. Apparently, they decided to do this on their own without prompting. IMHO it reflects contempt for their audience.