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espn's Jemel Hill calls Trump a white supremacist. White House wants her fired
- Thread starter Elegant Weapon
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And what about that one reality show host from a few years back that kept insisting that Obama wasn't born in the United States?
Massive Duck. C.M.
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If you haven't been watching, how do you know she's awful
friskykillface
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The fuck
elrechazado
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Reading her articles? Hearing her on the radio? Seeing her Twitter feed?
dickroach
Member
haven't really done that either lately, but I'd watched her for yeeaars
Angelus Errare
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Outrageous, how is it that you have an animated avatar?
Mattlikewhoa
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...My sarcasm meter is defective...
So you don't even know what happened in that situation but you're qualified to call it stupid as fuck? Jlaw.gif
Man espn threads really bring out the crazies around here
GalacticToast
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From Wikipedia
Not a huge fan of hers but the "White House" is fucking ridiculous in demanding her fired for calling Trump what he is.
Jemele Hill said:
Not a huge fan of hers but the "White House" is fucking ridiculous in demanding her fired for calling Trump what he is.
I just stalked you and your profile says you're from Southern California. How could you disagree with her take on the Celtics?!?!?
Lil'DigiOp
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Edit: Whoa totally wrong thread lol, switching posts
How dare you suggest a 2006 account with a fraction of a post per day is s burner.
GalacticToast
Member
What a waste of a tagged account with an animated avatar.
deadass?
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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To be honest, I absolutely hate how political ESPN has gotten. I used to watch it all the time and all I got was sports with none of the political crap. Nowadays it seems like they always wanna talk about politics and sports on the side.
On this topic, it was her personal twitter account, so I personally don't give a shit. This, though, is a perfect example of when people tell you - even when you're not famous - to be careful what you post online and in social media. It can always bite you in the ass. Hill created this situation for herself. Worth the headache? Maybe it is to her, or maybe it isn't. I surely wouldn't want that kind of headache though. The WH calling for her to be fired seems overkill to me, but again I don't really care about this issue. Obviously right wingers are gonna want her gone the same way that left wingers would if the roles were reversed. I actually think Hill is horrible at her job and ESPN should replace her because of that, but that's a whole other conversation that I don't feel like having.
On this topic, it was her personal twitter account, so I personally don't give a shit. This, though, is a perfect example of when people tell you - even when you're not famous - to be careful what you post online and in social media. It can always bite you in the ass. Hill created this situation for herself. Worth the headache? Maybe it is to her, or maybe it isn't. I surely wouldn't want that kind of headache though. The WH calling for her to be fired seems overkill to me, but again I don't really care about this issue. Obviously right wingers are gonna want her gone the same way that left wingers would if the roles were reversed. I actually think Hill is horrible at her job and ESPN should replace her because of that, but that's a whole other conversation that I don't feel like having.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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lol you've said plenty
Ahhh the Massachusetts will always show! Just having a go at you lol
Bomani and Lebatard are always giving Boston so much shit on their shows and I agree about it making her take less inflammatory lol
Edit: lol at the espn has become about politics take, never fail someone always mentions that
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Well I started typing and just kept going hah
Lil'DigiOp
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What makes that whites killed by blacks number 15%?
Im intrigued.
Hired Gorka, Miller and Bannon. Miller as Richard Spencers Idol, Bannon is Britebart King, and Gorka is just shitty(Oh and hired Jeff Sessions fuckface ass)
Pardoned Joe Arpaio, Super Racist Extraordinaire
Hasnt spoken up about signing about unilateral hate crime doctrine
Thunder Monkey
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I mean...
She's right.
Anything else need be said?
She's right.
Anything else need be said?
UberTag
Member
Glad she didn't apologize for stating the truth yet was still happy to go on record to hopefully put this matter to bed.Jemele tweeted a statement
Hopefully the petty White House can go focus on some other distraction after tomorrow's Fox and Friends episode instead of harassing a woman and trying to ruin her livelihood.
Ummmmmmmm
Jemele tweeted a statement
This is a good statement.
manzoman96
Member
For real. This just highlights this administration's pettiness and insecurity.
GhostWriter24
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Whoops.
Randolph Freelander
Member
There's always a tweet.
Did you mean to post this hot take with your alt account?
Putting aside that she is 100% correct, the government trying to take action or calling for action to be taken against someone for what they said is an actual, egregious attack on free speech. I wonder how many "but mah free speech" people will stick up for her. I figure not many :/
If only there were some "free speech" rallies that could unite against this sort of injustice...
NullPointer
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If ESPN fired her I'd understand, as I'd understand that action coming from many businesses who don't want their hosts to get too partisan or controversial, even if whats spoken is the truth. I say this without knowing if or how ESPN has handled political issues from their other personalities though.
But my heart is with Carlos Danger is my Spirit Animal - one of the comments to the Deadspin article - on this:
This administration has absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to social media, making insults, or alleging the worst about people.
But my heart is with Carlos Danger is my Spirit Animal - one of the comments to the Deadspin article - on this:
This administration has absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to social media, making insults, or alleging the worst about people.
Trump has had many obvious fascist tendencies, like this one.
SapientWolf
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Qwerty does his own stunts.
ESPN has absolutely nothing to gain by firing Hill. By firing her they aren't going to all the sudden stop competitors and critics from piling on them for "pushing a liberal agenda". Those same cretins will laugh at Hill's plight and then, without skipping a beat, go back to shitting on ESPN at every turn. Meanwhile, firing Hill would be horrible optics to the people that follow and defend ESPN from said cretins and they would just end up making more enemies.
Also, that comment is spot-on: Over the past year the worst people in this country realized that their perceived penalties for mouthing off and/or lying didn't actually exist, and so now they understand they have carte blanche to say whatever they want and there's nothing anyone can do about it because they figured out they can combat logic and facts with more nonsense and by fueling their asinine battle of attrition with their never-ending stream of bullshit they'll never "lose".
This
Jemele tweeted a statement
I fully agree with and support everything she said but i don't see how she could say what she said in a public fashion and NOT have people instinctively (albeit erroneously) link it back to ESPN which suggests the only other alternative would have been not to say it at all.