I'm Jewish. What Myers Leonard said is very insulting. But guess, what? I'll get over it. We all say stupid shit. We have all used words that we should not have used. What happened to forgiveness? Why is everyone's skin so damn thin these days? Why are someone's hurt feelings more important than just about anything else now? For the record, I am not talking about sexual harassment. I'm talking about people like Chris Harrison (The Bachelor) or Kathy Griffin. Or Myers. He said something stupid. OK, so what? I never need to hear from him ever again? The punishment so does not fit the crime. I don't get cancelling people people they were dumb, or boorish, or rude, or insensitive. We can think they are an idiot, fine. Or not buy whatever it is they sell. But to just write them off completely is just wrong imo.
I'm ok with cancelling someone like Meyers. Dude said some stupid shit and now he shouldn't get to be a pro athlete making millions of dollars. What bothers me is when the same rules aren't applied to everyone. If Meyers is cut and never plays again, why were all the pro black athletes or celebs who came out with the anti-semitic shit during the summer cancelled?
DeSean Jackson https://theundefeated.com/features/...tinue-long-history-of-tension-over-farrakhan/ Nick Cannon https://www.npr.org/sections/live-u...mments-nick-cannon-wants-wild-n-out-ownership He was fired and then they brought him back because...... reasons. Dwyane Wade https://sports.yahoo.com/dwyane-wad...fired-for-anti-semitic-remarks-210322735.html Stephen Jackson https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...aking-truth-adds-anti-semitic-claims-his-own/ Technically Wade didn't say anything, but he came out in support of Cannon.
Oh shit I missed one Ice Cube https://www.billboard.com/articles/...cized-anti-semitic-images-conspiracy-theories
This is a common argument with artists and musicians.....Picasso was an asshole on steroids but if cancelled when young, the art wouldn't be hangin around for the world to savor. Jerry Lee Lewis , "the Killer" married to his cousin, genius rock and roll pianist.....humans are more often than not flawed and sometimes really rude and ignorant...if the great artists who were jerks in their private lives were cancelled by society...that art dies a quick death. The great wonders of the world were mostly built by slaves whipped into submission.... Conundrum....yet hate speech in 2020 -21 is pretty hard to tolerate after the year we've all just been through. Meyers doesn't fit this narrative by any stretch...he's not even great at what he does.....
some bullshit needs to be cancelled and the sooner the better....hate speech being one of those things...violent abuse...yeah...let's cancel that shit too
Why? Why should he have to give up his entire career because he said something stupid? Have you never said anything ignorant? Should you have to give up your livelihood because you did?
He doesn't necessarily have to give up his career...he has a clothing line, he can play basketball if he can find somebody who doesn't give a shit...overseas, etc....people have been media blacklisted for a lot less than Meyers ignorant anti Semite rant. He has to make this right in his life...not us...time will tell that tale. He doesn't need to work a day in his life with 70 mill in the bank...he's going to get fined 50K tops.....suspended for one game but probably dumped by the Heat to never return. His good guy brand won't survive it but he might embrace being a bad boy..who knows
Definitely a terrible thing to say. I would warn everyone not to play online games because that isnt close to being the worst thing being bandied about during online gaming. We don't want that to be cancelled.
