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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 27, 2019 14:04:40 GMT -5
I'm not sure if going to social media first is the best thing... There has to be a person he could have called about that . Putting your place of employment on blast with charges of racism over something that might be a honest mistake, to me is a bit questionable. He very clearly did not go to social media first. The fact that it’s been about a month since the shirt’s release makes it easy to infer that he’s been getting radio silence about the issue, and is fed up with it.
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Oct 27, 2019 14:14:55 GMT -5
f***ing hell, WWE, get your shit together.
I feel like they've reached heretofore-unattainable levels of bad decisions in a single year.
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Post by joeiscool on Oct 27, 2019 14:25:51 GMT -5
I'm not sure if going to social media first is the best thing... There has to be a person he could have called about that . Putting your place of employment on blast with charges of racism over something that might be a honest mistake, to me is a bit questionable. He very clearly did not go to social media first. The fact that it’s been about a month since the shirt’s release makes it easy to infer that he’s been getting radio silence about the issue, and is fed up with it. there's something missing here IF that is true. If the shirts been taken down for a month and he told them about it, why is he talking about it now?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 14:27:57 GMT -5
He very clearly did not go to social media first. The fact that it’s been about a month since the shirt’s release makes it easy to infer that he’s been getting radio silence about the issue, and is fed up with it. there's something missing here IF that is true. If the shirts been taken down for a month and he told them about it, why is he talking about it now? Did everyone just work themselves into a shoot?
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Post by XIII on Oct 27, 2019 14:48:39 GMT -5
That would have been offensive about 40 years ago, what the hell are they thinking in 2019 with that? WWE is hilária-bad.
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Post by Starshine on Oct 27, 2019 14:55:04 GMT -5
It’s also shaped like a watermelon. There’s really no positive spin on this one.
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Post by capri on Oct 27, 2019 15:06:30 GMT -5
This seems very much like a work.
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Post by eJm on Oct 27, 2019 15:11:57 GMT -5
This seems very much like a work. ...for what means? If anything, WWE very rarely acknowledges this stuff from Twitter on its shows which makes everything that’s happened recently more asinine.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 27, 2019 15:24:01 GMT -5
He very clearly did not go to social media first. The fact that it’s been about a month since the shirt’s release makes it easy to infer that he’s been getting radio silence about the issue, and is fed up with it. there's something missing here IF that is true. If the shirts been taken down for a month and he told them about it, why is he talking about it now? Because I assume he wants a bit more than just the shirt being taken down. Some sort of discussion involving him getting input into future designs, and some form of assurance this doesn’t happen again. It’s great he got the shirt taken down, but that doesn’t deal with the underlying problems that allowed the shirt to make it to the online store.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Oct 27, 2019 15:25:43 GMT -5
there's something missing here IF that is true. If the shirts been taken down for a month and he told them about it, why is he talking about it now? Because I assume he wants a bit more than just the shirt being taken down. Some sort of discussion involving him getting input into future designs, and some form of assurance this doesn’t happen again. It’s great he got the shirt taken down, but that doesn’t deal with the underlying problems that allowed the shirt to make it to the online store. Nah. He's out for something a lot bigger than that. twitter.com/GoGoMyles/status/1188297337392828417
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Post by FinalGwen on Oct 27, 2019 15:27:03 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the benefit of a work would be with "WWE has a lot of underlying racism in its structure" as the central point. Really, this is just... Disappointing but not surprising.
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Post by joeiscool on Oct 27, 2019 15:27:19 GMT -5
there's something missing here IF that is true. If the shirts been taken down for a month and he told them about it, why is he talking about it now? Because I assume he wants a bit more than just the shirt being taken down. Some sort of discussion involving him getting input into future designs, and some form of assurance this doesn’t happen again. It’s great he got the shirt taken down, but that doesn’t deal with the underlying problems that allowed the shirt to make it to the online store. And he couldn't talk to them about that?
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Oct 27, 2019 15:27:32 GMT -5
This current generation must be driving Vince insane. Younger folks are a lot less forgiving of casual discrimination. Vince is still used to being able to ask black wrestlers to play Saba Simba.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 27, 2019 15:31:16 GMT -5
Because I assume he wants a bit more than just the shirt being taken down. Some sort of discussion involving him getting input into future designs, and some form of assurance this doesn’t happen again. It’s great he got the shirt taken down, but that doesn’t deal with the underlying problems that allowed the shirt to make it to the online store. And he couldn't talk to them about that? Apparently not, hence the tweet.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Oct 27, 2019 15:49:52 GMT -5
His next shirt is gonna say, "Jordan Myles: The best pure athlete in the WWE!"
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Post by hbkid718 on Oct 27, 2019 15:56:20 GMT -5
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Post by bearned on Oct 27, 2019 16:01:36 GMT -5
I'm not sure if going to social media first is the best thing... There has to be a person he could have called about that . Putting your place of employment on blast with charges of racism over something that might be a honest mistake, to me is a bit questionable. I’m assuming he got a response from someone but it wasn’t sufficient - so he’s decided to post about it. The more I look at that shirt the more I can’t believe it was a honest mistake - I’m not surprised he’s pissed.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Oct 27, 2019 16:46:32 GMT -5
The black and white profile pictures across wrestling twitter are being done to support and bring attention to ACH's message here. I think this is going to blow up.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Oct 27, 2019 16:58:18 GMT -5
When he flat out says "They're going to regret this", it's pretty clear he probably doesn't plan on working for that company ever again.
Well, other than that he hasn't changed his name back yet.
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Oct 27, 2019 17:27:35 GMT -5
At first glance I was willing to accept that it might have been a (still inexcusable) oversight while rushing to release a gazillion NXT shirts, none of which likely had much time put into the designs, nor much effort spent on quality control.
Looking at it again, though, that's not an out-of-the-box font. The top line of text has the upper half rounded and the lower half flat, while it's reversed for the bottom text. Someone went out of their way to make it look like a gumline and teeth.
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