The Seattle Mariners of Fascism-vania (political correctness is an insidious form of fascism) today decided to suspend injured back up catcher Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the season without pay for tweets he made in regards to the black lives matter inspired protests in North Carolina.
i can not abide by this. The tweets he made were supposedly in response to the riots turning more violent and a white man being beaten by black protesters.
The suspension for these comments is completely unwarranted. Nobody would confuse professional athletes for geniuses and his comments were inarticulate. However, the "meat" of the comments held true. Let's clean it up a little to what i think he meant to say.
1) The protesters are acting in an uncivilized manner (kind of like, i don' t know, animals).
2) The violent protesters should be held accountable for their actions (like maybe incarceration).
3) There is somewhat of a double standard regarding the black lives matter group (a group where at least 140,000 people petitioned to be listed as a terrorist group - and by some definitions they should be).
i am supremely disappointed in the Seattle Mariners exercising a fascist response to relatively innocuous free speech (which was not inherently racist). i am so tired of people looking for any "racist" connotations in everything said or written.and the double standard in racism. (people in glass houses should not throw stones).
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