The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(10-09-2021, 10:49 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-23-2021, 06:45 AM)taramarie Wrote: You know what? The non extremist right wingers have a point. Watch this and i would say watch the whole video before commenting as it is vital to hear a North Korean defector's POV of the state of America and I will say it extends to other countries as well, especially now. It is very important to watch with an open mind and take in her concerns that the country that she is in now, is starting to remind her of where she ran away from. There are the beginnings of a communist regime beginning to take form which concerns her. Now, I am a left winger from New Zealand. But after learning some things along the way through life recently, I am beginning to agree with her, that there are some major issues within the left wing that i listen to not only from New Zealand but especially in the USA and i have friends there and i used to agree with them. Now i consider them in some ways very extremist, and this video will explain why. Now as i do not like cancel culture nor the foolish woke culture, I am open for a discussion on this. I hope our right wingers come back and chime in also as i am very curious to hear from them as well as the left wingers here.

Enjoy this very insightful video.

You're not telling me anything that I haven't known for many years. I'm glad to see that you've been enlightened (wised up) so to speak. Woke Culture hasn't really tangled with American Culture yet. It's mainly tangling with the American Left right now. I predict that when it does, there will be no Woke survivors. You see, American Cancel Culture is actually more dangerous than them. American Cancel Culture can and will destroy them. ( I'm a product of REAL American Culture). The bulk of the people you see are products of academia or Facebook or Twitter. It didn't take REAL American Culture very long to undermine, weaken and eliminate the quasi socialist regime that controlled the old forum before you began posting. I should know, I played a significant role in it's demise.

Prejudice and unequal opportunity are realities in America.  It is impossible to be black, Hispanic, First Peoples, or LGBT to not recognize that reality.The more mature parts of American society know this. Nobody needs excuse any bad behavior that one uses "wokeness" for a sordid rationale. Bad behavior is simply bad. 

Cancel culture is a different matter: people lose their privilege for doing something disgraceful. I recall FoX Sports "canceling" the contrast of sportscaster Steve Lyons for insinuating that Hispanics are heavily car thieves. FoX Sports was right to end that career.

Here's something more recent:

Quote:On August 19, 2020, while providing commentary on Fox Sports Ohio, for the first game of an away doubleheader between the Reds and the Kansas City Royals, Brennaman was caught on a hot mic referring to an undisclosed location as "one of the fag capitals of the world."[4][5] The Reds pulled him off the air during the second game, with studio host Jim Day taking over play-by-play after the top of the fifth inning. Before leaving the booth, Brennaman apologized for his earlier anti-gay slur, saying that he was "deeply ashamed" if he "hurt anyone out there." He also hinted that his broadcasting future was in doubt, saying, "I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again."[6][7]

Many people noted the awkwardness of the apology; as a red-faced Brennaman rushed to inform viewers that "I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith", he suddenly paused to call a home run by Nick Castellanos.[8] He went on to state that he apologizes to "the people who sign my paycheck", and asserted, "That is not who I am, and never has been. And I'd like to think that maybe I could have some people that, uh, that could back that up." Many social media users remarked that these were extremely unusual and strange comments to make during a baseball game, and suggested that Brennaman should not have chosen to make an on-air apology at all, rather than spontaneously trying to come up with something off the cuff that made his situation even worse.
Later that night, the Reds announced that Brennaman had been suspended indefinitely pending an internal review.[6] The following day, Fox Sports announced that Brennaman would not be part of its NFL broadcast roster in 2020.[9]

Brennaman wrote a longer apology for The Cincinnati Enquirer the next day, after speaking to openly gay MLB inclusion ambassador Billy Bean. He also called WCPO-TV anchor Evan Millward, who posted an editorial on his station's website criticizing his FS Ohio statement as a non-apology apology, and said he would reach out to the LGBTQ+ organization PFLAG to make further amends.[10][11] Almost a month later, Brennaman officially resigned from the Reds and Fox Sports Ohio.[12] However, the Reds had already informed Brennaman that he would not return for the 2021 season. Brennaman himself told USA Today that he realized his remark "hurt a lot of people" and that he will "have to live with it for the rest of my life."[13]

Brennaman was replaced by John Sadak for Reds games, and Kevin Kugler for NFL games on Fox.

Let me suggest that three  basic rules rules apply to life:

1. All snakes should be considered venomous until you know otherwise.
2. All guns should be assumed to be loaded.
3. All microphones should be considered live; any phone off the hook can catch any sound, and any camera may be running

A live microphone can be as deadly to a career as can a venomous snake to be to a body. If I were in a place with microphones I might be tempted to call microphones "snakes". A live mike can kill a career. To be sure, Thom Brennaman bungled the aftermath badly. He used the play-by-play to issue a pathetic exculpation of himself rather than paying attention to the game. I saw the video. He had saving his evaporating career as his focus instead of the game.

A welder's career can come from a welding torch whose flame touches his skin.