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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jul 9, 2020 10:16:06 GMT -5
What's the other side of this tale? The company turned a blind eye to the extra-curricular debauchery by the talent (drugs, booze, partying, sleeping around) for the longest time, but THIS was the reason for denying employment??? Wait, why is sleeping around being lumped in with drugs and booze? If I’m a grown adult, how is f***ing other consenting adults on the same level as crushing JD and snorting rails? Just the relative moral high ground I suppose. A married man like Bret Hart sleeping around with women of all races and nationalities, even consensual, surely is a reason moreso to not hire someone or sack someone rather than not hire someone who is in a steadymixed race relationship?
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Post by Muskrat on Jul 9, 2020 10:19:01 GMT -5
Wait, why is sleeping around being lumped in with drugs and booze? If I’m a grown adult, how is f***ing other consenting adults on the same level as crushing JD and snorting rails? Just the relative moral high ground I suppose. A married man like Bret Hart sleeping around with women of all races and nationalities, even consensual, surely is a reason moreso to not hire someone or sack someone rather than not hire someone who is in a steadymixed race relationship? As long as it’s not a kid, who I’m f***ing regardless of race, gender or nationality should not factor into my employability one bit
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jul 9, 2020 10:20:42 GMT -5
Just the relative moral high ground I suppose. A married man like Bret Hart sleeping around with women of all races and nationalities, even consensual, surely is a reason moreso to not hire someone or sack someone rather than not hire someone who is in a steadymixed race relationship? As long as it’s not a kid, who I’m f***ing regardless of race, gender or nationality should not factor into my employability one bit Precisely. So why single out April and ignore others, unless there's more to the story?
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Post by Muskrat on Jul 9, 2020 10:23:40 GMT -5
As long as it’s not a kid, who I’m f***ing regardless of race, gender or nationality should not factor into my employability one bit Precisely. So why single out April and ignore others, unless there's more to the story? Totally thought this was the Matt Riddle thread. Was on a different train of thought. My bad. If April legitimately didn’t get hired because she was dating a black dude, that’s f***ed up.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jul 9, 2020 11:30:37 GMT -5
As long as it’s not a kid, who I’m f***ing regardless of race, gender or nationality should not factor into my employability one bit Precisely. So why single out April and ignore others, unless there's more to the story? The whole issue is that we don't know if there is more to the story, especially because the boyfriend in question was blackballed from major promotions for being violent and abusive. He only got arrested for it after the timeline Hunter is describing, but a dude with Wagner's size, charisma, and ties to Killer Kowalski being persona-non-grata after 2002 is a major red flag in itself
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jul 9, 2020 11:47:02 GMT -5
What's the other side of this tale? The company turned a blind eye to the extra-curricular debauchery by the talent (drugs, booze, partying, sleeping around) for the longest time, but THIS was the reason for denying employment??? I mean, nothing really works that way. You're trying to apply the idea of moral consistency to an accusation of bigotry. Someone who doesn't think that that is right will absolutely weigh what they see as a moral and societal wrong like that over somebody drinking and partying. Especially when those sorts of things are already deeply embedded into the culture of the business and seen as something everyone will do. During this period, WWE was focusing much of its recruitments onto college athletes way more intensely than they do today, stuff like partying was never going to be a blanket rejection because they'd be losing out on a lot of hot prospects who could go take a stab at their respective sport for way more money and glamour. There may be reasons in this story to feel like it's not all on the up and up, but this doesn't track as one of them.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 9, 2020 12:21:45 GMT -5
What's the other side of this tale? The company turned a blind eye to the extra-curricular debauchery by the talent (drugs, booze, partying, sleeping around) for the longest time, but THIS was the reason for denying employment??? I mean, nothing really works that way. You're trying to apply the idea of moral consistency to an accusation of bigotry. Someone who doesn't think that that is right will absolutely weigh what they see as a moral and societal wrong like that over somebody drinking and partying. Especially when those sorts of things are already deeply embedded into the culture of the business and seen as something everyone will do. During this period, WWE was focusing much of its recruitments onto college athletes way more intensely than they do today, stuff like partying was never going to be a blanket rejection because they'd be losing out on a lot of hot prospects who could go take a stab at their respective sport for way more money and glamour. There may be reasons in this story to feel like it's not all on the up and up, but this doesn't track as one of them. FCW was the DUI/DWI factory for the f***ing longest.
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Post by bob on Jul 11, 2020 9:19:03 GMT -5
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jul 11, 2020 9:40:02 GMT -5
Wasn't the Mark Henry: Sex Guy angle done to try and force him to quit because they didn't want to honour the big contract they signed him to? I think he was making 250k a year guaranteed when that was way more than most of them made, yeah. I don't know if anyone has ever confirmed it or if Mark has weighed in on if he believes it, but credit to him, he also seemed to try to be a team player and didn't half-ass it. And to his credit he also turned it around when given a chance to run with it and was one of the better stars of the company for a couple years
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 10:25:12 GMT -5
I think he was making 250k a year guaranteed when that was way more than most of them made, yeah. I don't know if anyone has ever confirmed it or if Mark has weighed in on if he believes it, but credit to him, he also seemed to try to be a team player and didn't half-ass it. And to his credit he also turned it around when given a chance to run with it and was one of the better stars of the company for a couple years That's what he does!
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Jul 13, 2020 19:54:52 GMT -5
I swear I remember these allegations coming up at the time they happened, and someone said it's most likely April Hunter got declined because she'd done fetish stuff and a little bit of hard porn. The SWB stuff came afterwards.
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