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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 4, 2019 17:40:10 GMT -5
A lot of rich old guys are kinda racist, And so is Ric Flair. *ba boom disssssh* |
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Post by agent817 on Feb 4, 2019 19:10:12 GMT -5
This whole thing isn't that much different than what Kevin Hart went through on Twitter about finding some old tweets or jokes he made about gay people. You're just digging up some old stuff that have little relevance anymore and when it surfaces, the person is now looked at as scum.
As for Scarface, why is he doing this? I have respect for the guy as an artist and do enjoy some of his work, but what does he have to do with Flair?
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Post by romanstylesiii on Feb 4, 2019 19:51:05 GMT -5
Identity Politics are so 2018
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Feb 4, 2019 20:09:15 GMT -5
You can dig up dirt on just about any wrestler. I’d bet money that when the Freebirds were confronted by a black fan that got into the ring with a loaded gun pointed at them after they did the angle blinding Junk Yard Dog that they didn’t say “That poor mentally ill black man!” They probably threw some racial remarks around and I’d bet the rest of the locker room did that night too. I’m not trying to drift into whataboutism here but it really was a different time. People weren’t as socially conscious. Go back to the 90s and you could walk into any book store and find joke books dedicated to making fun of Italians or Polish people. I’m sure we all know someone that said something racist about people from the Middle East after the events of Sept. 11. It’s nice to see the world improving but we can’t expect everyone to have a spotless reputation. That’s just unrealistic. I don’t doubt Teddy Long’s story but I can’t be surprised or outraged. Hulk Hogan is clearly recorded saying worse and there are plenty of people that are willing to overlook it. Outrage culture has become so common that even with evidence it’s hard to make something out of the past stick unless the person has committed a sexual assault or has a high paying gig on the line at the time.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 4, 2019 20:40:32 GMT -5
Keep in mind, Flair was still calling Asians "Japs" on live TV into the 90s and got into trouble late in his WCW career for threatening to "Jap slap" someone during a promo.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Feb 4, 2019 20:56:20 GMT -5
Flair is older than this earth that we inhabit, so I am not shocked. A lot of rich old guys are kinda racist, lets just hope we never get a recording like with Hogan lol. Hogan isn’t white, he’s orange |
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