RHODEY wrote:stuporman wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:
Then can you imagine what it must've been like to work with her? Yikes.
I don't recall the verbiage she used at this point but I seem to recall that the resentment of a young and upcoming Black female doing the sideline reporting came across as unseemly with racial undertones. And Rachel came across as a complete B. In a business, especially reporting on NBA basketball for millions of viewers on the biggest stage, relationships are appearances mean a lot. Honestly, this result doesn't surprise me.
I just listened to it again today, of course I'm still unsure if I have heard the whole recording but if this is it, it's pretty innocuous. She said nothing about race, she said nothing about quotas, she only alluded to a crappy record on diversity while suggesting she had first hand experience with.
It sounded like someone who was aware of her precarious situation and concerned she was in the process of being replaced. Then she said something kind of in a gray area of 'offensive' if someone squinted real hard with an already existing bias of seeing it that way which gave them the easy out.
Seems like she's getting painted as saying something racist when she just was self serving wanting to protect her own job which she lost anyway. I feel people are playing up the race part of it when what I heard didn't really sound it, more like someone worried about a younger woman taking her job.
Maybe but its hard to serarate it all out because there was a possible perceived racial aspect to her conversation. ESPN is on the fake woke crusade so its probably safer for their image if they just dump her and the show...
Fake woke? You mean how there are entrenched sexism and racism in the society and system that conservatives deny exists at all, liberals pay lip service to and corporations make public gestures at instead of real changes while they offer up individuals as sacrificial lambs to the alter of their profits hiding their true complicity and perpetuation of the systematic discrimination?
Progressives are the ones who fight for the 'progress' of changing economic and social inequities and yet they get painted as deluded radical extremists by conservatives, liberals and the media. Both conservatives and liberals want to continue the system of things that they have benefited from while conservatives do it explicitly liberals do it implicitly but both don't want it to fundamentally change.
Social media mobs from all corners of the political spectrum isn't the way to get real change, it's how to get performative acts to satiate the mob for a moment while the anger and vitriol is amped up higher, higher and higher waiting for the next incident to descend upon the person or group that dares to offend their personal peeves.
