A perfect encapsulation of why soccer is terrible.

So right. To whom else would the state of California turn to pay attention to them if not ESPN? So kind and thoughtful of them to include us.

This is the same as being trans. You’re born with white skin, biologically are a white person, decide you “identify” as black, and “transition” into an awkward caricature of a thing you’re not.

Not gonna lie - it is amazing reading through these comments and watching assholes snipe at each other over who is more oppressed.

It’s more like they are trying to balance their anti-straight man hatred with the anti-white hatred. Not white? Great, pass. But wait, still a dude who likes women? Hmmm....

Great. Everyone is a white supremacist! You got it. Apparently the learning for some from 2016 is the need to ramp up the race-based shaming of people and use even stronger terms.

You sre literally redefining this term. Up until like a month ago, “white supremacist” meant neo-nazi skinhead types, and wasn’t generally used for normal people who have done some racist stuff.

Whatever. Everyone is a white supremacist in your view.  You just run with that. Clearly the lesson of the last election is that the left wasn’t nearly forceful enough in calling everyone racist. Ramp it up! Let’s call everyone white supremacist Nazi Hitler. That is definitely the way to victory!

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Ok then. Run around calling everyone white supremacists. They’ll love it! It will totally make them see your side and change and be better people. This strategy of calling everyone and their brother racist in the last election clearly failed because you weren’t being insulting enough. I love it.

Honestly, most of the “facts” I’ve read are highly negative interpretations of his behavior. And I get it - there’s lots of reason to dislike him. But claiming the guy said “Mexicans are rapists” and that he was “convicted of discriminating against black people” in the 70s is simply false. I went through it thoroughly…

Yes, that is the defense. Watering down the term “white supremacist” to mean “anyone who holds some racist views” is ultimately not a good thing. As I said, almost everyone is racist in some way or another. Lumping them in with the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi skinheads and saying it’s all the same thing devalues the…

I appreciate your clearly rational take on this.

Watch out. That’s my argument, and I am now apparently a white supremacist and/or Nazi sympathizer or actual Nazi. It’s hard to know - the insults come in hot and heavy.  You’ll get to join the club soon!

LOL fantastic. I suppose I should have just called people I disagree with “morons” and told them to “fuck off”. That’s the way to win over people!

Solid addition to the discussion here. Glad you could stop by.

This claim that “Donald Trump is a white supremacist” is a “statement of fact” just completely disregards the meaning of the word “fact”. Just....stop. It makes you look so partisan and pathetic.

THIS. Don’t say things that make your customers angry. It’s not rocket science. She could have not said that and absolutely zero people would have been angry. She did, and now lots of people are angry. ESPN has every right to be pissed at her.

I figured you would say this. My Grandpa really did not like Japanese people because, you know, a bunch of them tried to murder him in WW2. It would come out inappropriately - I heard the world “Japs” a lot growing up.

No, you mostly made up things he never actually said.