What was wrong with Curt Schilling’s Nazi/Muslim tweet?
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I admit that before I became a republican I had no use for Curt Schilling. He made a living in baseball that most could only dream of not only because of his talent, but because the Baseball Union fought for free agency and negotiating rights so players could enjoy the financial rewards commensurate with their talents.
Curt is a righty and hates unions and government and all the other stuff I hate now even though Curt pitched in publically financed stadiums that helped republican owners make millions of taxpayer largess.
All that aside, Curt sent out a tweet recently comparing extremist Muslims with Nazis. He was then banned from being a commentator at the Little League World Series.
My reaction is when the hell did extremist Muslims and Nazis become taboo subjects worthy of defense by the politically correct crowd? As far as I’m concerned Nazis and extremist Muslims are no good pricks and deserve to be lumped together as no good pricks. If anyone is offended by the calling of no good pricks no good pricks then tough turkeys to you.
I take my hat off to Curt Schilling and only wish he’d have taken the Donald Trump route and doubled down with some vitriol towards extremist Muslims and Nazis rather than apologize. He wasn’t afraid to pitch inside but now he’s afraid of some sissy liberals who are afraid to hurt the feelings of Nazis and terrorists?
If he gets banned from broadcasting I’d have more respect for him for telling the pansies to piss off rather than apologizing for the truth about hate mongering terrorists and murderers. I guess things haven’t changed about Curt from my point of view even though it’s republican now. I still have no respect for Curt Schilling.
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ESPN decided to suspend Law’s Twitter account. ESPN commented that “Keith’s Twitter suspension had absolutely nothing to do with his opinions on the subject,” but it remains unclear what other motivation is behind the act, since the conversation between Schilling and Law reportedly “never really turned hostile”, with many reading the details feeling that his suspension was “ridiculous”.
Personally I think today’s Muslims Fundamentalists might be worse than Germany’s Nazis.
When I heard he go canned for this, I was incredulous. Is ESPN/ABC worried about losing the advertising support of Muslim extremists and Nazis? Seriously? You’re right: he should have doubled down and said that at least the Nazis stole valuable art/antiquities rather than destroying them.
I agree, and I didn’t know he got canned. I heard he was disciplined but not fired over this bullshit.
He was not fired. Suspended from commenting on the little league series is all that happened to him. He’s an idiot anyway, same guy that goes on and on about big gubbmint got handouts for his gaming company that sucked at putting out games. Oh and Joe, I changed my avatar just for you because voting and thinking is very hard for us borned with the not to be spoken of girly bits.
I didn’t think he was fired. Too bad. He’s a dick.
All this being said I still dislike Nazis and Muslim extremists. My personal go to slur has always been “shithead.” In defense of shitheads not all shitheads are Nazis or Muslim extremists but they are shitheads.
So I looked it up. The German people seem to have fallen in line pretty readily after the Nazi’s came to power. Peaked at 8.5 million members. Good Nazi members? Forced or coerced or felt they had to be to survive? We will never know. But 8.5 million has got to be WAY over 7 per cent. And by the way how come everybody feels they have to call someone they don’t like a Nazi? I’ve heard this comparison so many times the last few years it’s getting to be a joke. I’ve even heard Obama called a Nazi. A Black intellectual muslim Nazi. Now there’s a mind bender. I thought those wound up in concentration camps.
Ignorance is what makes people think all things they don’t like “Nazis” primarily because they understand at some baser level that being a “Nazi” is somehow a bad thing, therefore all bad things are “Nazis.” People who do this have no understanding or knowledge of history.
Joe I don’t think the numbers are correct here, at least not for Nazi Germany. While National Socialism was just a political party, much like our wacky Republicans, but with a sprinkle of nationalism thrown in, I think there might have been more than 7%.
Historically it’s proved impossible to tell how many Germans were actually Nazis in reality. Many certainly joined the party out of fear and pretended to be.
There was a study done many moons ago – I forget when and couldn’t be bothered Googling – that suggested around 7% of Germans in the 30’s actually genuinely supported the Nazis.
No idea if this is true though.