Leach Tweet
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Sure, I may have nailed it or I may have gone full Charlie. Either way, there are a dozen posts on this thread alone getting outraged at our players over some Tweets that are probably taken out of context and gone now anyway. That's a shame.
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This is the one I've seen floating around the past few days:
https://i2.wp.com/www.bookwormroom....s-quarantine-wife-knits-noose.jpg?fit=848,936
Some black people were burned, some shot, some knifed to death, some dragged behind cars or run over. Shall we also make it "racially insenstive" to make jokes that, though they don't include black people, do include cars, guns, knives & fire?
How about crosses, since so many of them were used by being torched in the yards of black people decades ago, should we stop using crosses in public messages?
Or maybe...just maybe some people need to stop looking for any excuse to claim victimization,, racism, racial insensitivity, etc., especially when it is crystal clear something had absolutely nothing to do with race.
How about crosses, since so many of them were used by being torched in the yards of black people decades ago, should we stop using crosses in public messages?
Or maybe...just maybe some people need to stop looking for any excuse to claim victimization,, racism, racial insensitivity, etc., especially when it is crystal clear something had absolutely nothing to do with race.
Haven’t seen it, but one of my coworkers, from Connecticut none the less, brought it to my attention, and basically said, ‘people need to get a sense of humor’.. all I know,
The outrage is that 2 major news organizations and a professor with a semi large following are trying to make a mountain out of Something that should not even be news. I'm sorry that you can't comprehend that. It is a big deal when idiots that buy the ink by the barrel and paper by the roll try to insinuate that a harmless joke by our head coach has racial undertones. The 800 or so replies to the ESPN article largely agree that this is entirely ridiculous and stupid. When your head coach is in the news for being "racially insensitive" when he recruits 90% black players it's not a good thing.
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If you've followed fabo 54 on twitter, you know his political leanings from past tweets. I unfollowed him quickly.
No, people are saying the Bloomberg publication is taking shots at the south while NY is the epicenter of the virus with tons of people dying.
Americans (or maybe journalists and twitter heroes) just can't let things end
Something about our culture these days where we have to amplify every scenario to its most extreme implications. Why can't we just be happy with this:
1) guy posts a meme funny to many in a certain context
2) guy is informed it is offensive to many in a different context
3) guy says "you're right, I didn't consider that, I'm sorry" and takes meme down
4) everyone moves on
Why is this apparently not acceptable?
Something about our culture these days where we have to amplify every scenario to its most extreme implications. Why can't we just be happy with this:
1) guy posts a meme funny to many in a certain context
2) guy is informed it is offensive to many in a different context
3) guy says "you're right, I didn't consider that, I'm sorry" and takes meme down
4) everyone moves on
Why is this apparently not acceptable?
We truly don't deserve Leach. The man's been coaching 33 years and until now
he's not once been accused of anything racial. His most controversial moment involved a white player. From a prominent family no less. Quite frankly, if Erroll paid as much attention to his meal plan as he does playing victim on twitter, he might live up to his NFL potential. I have no question the very guys bitching also are the ones bitching about the new off season workouts. You know, the ones where you actually have to workout.
he's not once been accused of anything racial. His most controversial moment involved a white player. From a prominent family no less. Quite frankly, if Erroll paid as much attention to his meal plan as he does playing victim on twitter, he might live up to his NFL potential. I have no question the very guys bitching also are the ones bitching about the new off season workouts. You know, the ones where you actually have to workout.
It should be the way it works. There's an unfortunate trend now where the media runs a story with about how someone posted something on social media and "everyone is outraged". When you actually look at the post, there are sometimes less than 5 negative replies.
You know, I get offended by a lot of s*** I see on twitter, FB, TikTok, whatever. It seems to me, it all depends on who's getting offended that the other party is forced to issue a statement of apology. I don't see that many celebrity athletes issuing apologies when they put something out there that my 11 year old daughter, or anyone else with morals has any business viewing. But yet it's ok, because they are "keeping it real" or it's "real talk".
Well let's see. One case is a direct insult with intent and example #200 million of similar triggered sufferers of TDS, while the other is completely innocent, clearly with no intent toward to idiots who claim "racial sensitivity".
If their posted reaction was due to being offended by Coach's tweet, I say, "Don't let the door to the transfer portal hit you in the *** on the way out!".
The joke is NOT "...the wife knitting a scarf...". The joke is very clearly about a husband and wife spending to much time together. I've seen nearly the same thing with the wife digging a grave, or the text of the meme indicating that the husband had already been buried, etc. Every single one had the exact same theme. Couples are getting on each other's nerves because of time spent together during this crisis. The person who looks at that and finds racism is just looking to be offended and that gets old, really quickly.
Anyone who would find offense in that is just as small minded as the person who would actually use a noose to create fear or racial strife. They just line up on the PC/virtue signalling side of things and hide behind a culture that allows, and treats as normal, any perceived offense. It's incredibly old hat and disheartening.
It was a quarantine craziness meme. It most assuredly had nothing to do with suicide so remove that from your narrative. And it really had nothing to do with murder. It was a joke about too much time spent together. Surely anyone functioning above K5 grade level could understand that, right? I mean our illustrious offended Sociology professor not included of course. If that is who started this, that person should be dismissed. <-not kidding
Our ***** *** fan base doesn’t deserve you...have you considered going back to Africa?
Bigger problem: Too many people believe that what they feel is the truth and live that way. Your feelings will lie to you. Just because you feel it doesn't give it credibility other than you needing to figure out how to deal with it. This idea that everyone's feelings must be honored and sovereign, is a complete lie. Your feelings are not the voice of God. Nor are mine.
I am NOT talking about people who run roughshod over others and mistreat them. I'm talking about this culture of made up offenses that would completely burn someone to the ground for insulting someone else's feelings, whether intentional or not.
I am NOT talking about people who run roughshod over others and mistreat them. I'm talking about this culture of made up offenses that would completely burn someone to the ground for insulting someone else's feelings, whether intentional or not.
The fact that Leach is a Trump supporter isn't gonna go over well with A LOT of our team members. That is just a fact.
It would be the most MSU thing ever if he never coached a single game due to global pandemic/insensitive tweets and disgruntled football players.
And horse thieves, Murderers, bank robbers, train robbers, stage coach robbers. I could go on, but I understand that today, the “hangman’s noose” only represents one thing and we better be sensitive or else.
There were evil white people who abused black peoples just because of their skin color. We all studied history. But history shows us there were atrocities against ALL races. Know anyone who had family members gassed to death in Germany, man, woman, and child? Millions; and then thrown into a single grave. How about modern day Middle East? Millions.
How about the Jews in Egypt?
Humans have a propensity to be evil to one another, without a Moral Compass.
I’m done talking about this. Coach owes no other response.
There were evil white people who abused black peoples just because of their skin color. We all studied history. But history shows us there were atrocities against ALL races. Know anyone who had family members gassed to death in Germany, man, woman, and child? Millions; and then thrown into a single grave. How about modern day Middle East? Millions.
How about the Jews in Egypt?
Humans have a propensity to be evil to one another, without a Moral Compass.
I’m done talking about this. Coach owes no other response.
They're acting like giant babies over a silly article. We have a certain segment of fans that act like little girls anytime they read something negative about Mississippi State or the South. They clutch their pearls and cry because someone they don't know hurt their feelings by saying words they don't like.
Leach's political views are the same as Mullen's and a whole bunch of other coaches. It's not a big deal.
I mean, Mullen was explicitly tweeting pics of his wife and #MAGA signs back in 2016 and we all survived.
And literally the only reason they'd be disgruntled is because someone told them
that they should be.
that they should be.
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