Leach Tweet
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So nobody on this board, nor the Clarion Ledger, nor ESPN, can provide any evidence that any player thought the Tweet was racist? Theres more anger on this thread alone at our players than supposed anger over this Tweet (which no one can find when prompted).
How many Six Pack Countermeltdowns will we have until we learn? Let's save our meltdowns for things that actually happen, not things that theoretically could but actually don't.
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Seems like this is everything now a days. Every different faction of the population is offended by something in today’s world.
The below image doesn’t prove they thought it was racist, but it does prove, they didn’t like it at least.
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Does it though? Aren't we reading a lot into a couple words, yet another Six Pack Tradition?
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********! No excuse! And trying to rationalize what someone else “might” perceive is milking the sensitivity. Let em eat cake! And drink a glass of milk. Oh hell! I stepped into it now. Milk is white.
But it only matters when particular groups get offended. Different rules for different groups, ya see. It must be miserable going through life obsessively looking for "racism" just so you can either be 1.) a victim, or 2.) a social justice "hero" trying to get a pat in the back for calling it out.
People clearly don’t use dictionaries anymore Bc the dictionary definition of racism is way different than what the softies use.
The only people "offended" here are 14 people (by my count) who are outraged by the idea that a black person might think a Tweet is racist
On the other hand, there is supposedly 1 sociology professor upset over it (haven't seen any evidence, but I believe it), and 2 football players with a total of 3 words that have been construed to mean they think it was racist too, but it's a big stretch.
So at best it's 14-3, and probably 14-1, and hundreds to 1 if you count everyone on Twitter having the same strong reactions. As basically always with these things, the counteroutrage is much larger, louder, and whinier than the "outrage" that inspired it.
You missed the note where the going way to think is that everything is about me or it is racist or etc, etc, etc.
I honestly even Jesus would have a tough time with our social media/media/SJW's.
Insensitive pricks are offended by any and everything these days.
17 all of those who are offended.
17 all of those who are offended.
he's got an athletic director that told him to delete it. You don't honestly think he actually believed that was a controversial tweet to begin with do you?
I don't think he would have deleted this if it really was this mythical racial brouhaha the Six Pack Reacreational Counteroutrage Mob (SPRCoM) alleges but somehow no one can back up with evidence. It's obviously not racist, virtually everyone agrees that it's not, and Leach isn't going to apologize when he's clearly not in the wrong.
Probably someone in the AD reminded him of De'Runnya and PJ (players that Leach presumably never met and had probably barely heard of), and Leach wisely decided it wasn't appropriate to have a suicide/murder meme up, even though I think most people agreed it was funny.
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Wow sounds like you’re offended that people get offended...so are you also telling yourself to 17 off
I tend to do this a lot. Try to treat people how I want to be treated and not how I am treated.
I don’t want anyone to treat me as a victim. I want to know where people stand so be up front with me.
You can be up front and honest and respectful.
I don’t want anyone to treat me as a victim. I want to know where people stand so be up front with me.
You can be up front and honest and respectful.
A national ESPN columnist wrote a story on it and the State newspaper did too. People are outraged that people with that type of viewership are perpetuating something this stupid.
Nothing in the ESPN article alleges any kind of racism, it just relies on Horka's article for everyone. Horka has always been an idiot, and he took a couple of players' one-word Tweets out of context to drum up a controversy over nothing.
Doesn't change the fact that there is more counter-outrage on this thread alone than actual outrage on the entire Internet that spawned it.
Kobe's Tweet is deleted by the way (assuming the ESPN article's links are correct). Thanks all you Bulldogs who bullied, raged, and attacked him over some fake motivation you made up for him.
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There's a whole thread on 247 with multiple people saying it was a racially insensitive tweet, context doesn't matter, a noose is a racially charged symbol and if you don't know that you're stupid or ignorant.
I don't think many people think Leach intended for it to be racist, but many think the tweet had racial undertones and was stupid for him to post. You're literally the only person I've seen go with the DeRunnya/PJ angle.
The sociology professor tagged many official MSU twitter handles with her comments, so I'm sure that along with the players' tweets caused Leach himself or someone to tell him to take it down. If you don't think the blow back from those offended (or offended for others) based on it being "racially insensitive" caused him to apologize, I don't know what to tell you. I'm just glad I wasn't the only one that didn't know a noose was an offensive symbol to some regardless of the context.
I would agree the "outrage" for him having to apologize now seems greater than the outrage over the tweet, but it was there nevertheless. And I'm not surprised more people are "outraged" over the apology because most people didn't see it as having racist implications in the first place.
We will not play any Football Games this year/season/or next two either and it will blow over in four years, when we start playing again.
"WTF" does not equal Leach did something to offend them. They may have been laughing saying "WTF".
Let's not assume our players thought the worst.
I have a feeling we wouldn't long have a team worth watching, if we took that approach.
This is by far the dumbest comment in this thread. In one instance you want someone to be able to say whatever they want on twitter (Leach) which I'm not complaining about but then in the very next instance you want someone else kicked off a football team for responding to the first person's tweet.
How many of those claiming there's too much political correctness and offended groups are still uptight about someone on The Weather Channel referring to a part of Mississippi as "the landmass" almost a decade ago?
PC is just like southern hospitality. Both are ways of treating others politely in line with "the golden rule," but both are considered stupid to those who don't know all "the rules."
Don't be hypocrites, be critical of those you respect, be considerate of those you don't understand, and suddenly life gets a lot easier and more enjoyable.
PC is just like southern hospitality. Both are ways of treating others politely in line with "the golden rule," but both are considered stupid to those who don't know all "the rules."
Don't be hypocrites, be critical of those you respect, be considerate of those you don't understand, and suddenly life gets a lot easier and more enjoyable.
First, In this day and age of hyper-sensitivity to words and/or symbols, why do so many high profile people post to social media? No win situation.
Second, if the woman in the meme displayed a knitted sword should I feel offended since my Sicilian ancestors and thousands like them were put to death by the sword by the Romans for being Christians? Every race, creed, ethnic group in the world has been dehumanized for one reason or another. We all need to learn from the past, but let's live for the present and future.
Second, if the woman in the meme displayed a knitted sword should I feel offended since my Sicilian ancestors and thousands like them were put to death by the sword by the Romans for being Christians? Every race, creed, ethnic group in the world has been dehumanized for one reason or another. We all need to learn from the past, but let's live for the present and future.
So a MSU Professor did this? Not the players?
LOL! That person should be fired for it.
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