OT: What Is Wrong With Mark Jones From ESPN aka Paul Jones Brother?

[WorldChamp]

America is a pretty good place to live if you have money and employer-paid healthcare. No problem with him liking it there, but he comes across as a clown with the crap he posts on Twitter.

There are a ton of good places to live if you have Money and Healthcare...just saying.

[artsncrafts]

I am more upset about his use of the term "bro" than I am about his anti-Canada tweets.

[Dino-Might]

It's his life. None of our business anyway.

You're right that it is his life.

But if he chooses to be a public figure and then post idiotic things on twitter for public consumption, it's fair game for us to ridicule him for it.

[WorldChamp]

I am more upset about his use of the term "bro" than I am about his anti-Canada tweets.

What tweets were anti-canada? All I saw was some guy who was born to Jamaican parents in Canada who has lived in the US for the past 26 years and married an American talking about the country he has lived in for the past 26 years. Its weird that he goes out of his way to avoid discussing his Canadian roots but I figure its because he's a huge capitalist a**hole who doesn't have much to live for outside of his money.

[Mister Ze]

This dudes def not worth the attention but has done a great job in pissing us all off. If he's comfortable taking jabs like this on his public twitter imagine what he says off the record about Canada.

I'd rather listen to an American idiot bash Canada than a former Canadian turned American wanna be anyday.

[RandomRaptorfan]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/status/24694681190[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/status/696877345140039680[/tweet]
[tweet]https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/status/696879479537430528[/tweet]

He's fishing for attention with that one. Anyone who travels as much as he does knows it's 2am all over the U.S. except for a select few places. Conclusion don't feed the troll (lowkey would be hilarious if Trump became president and rained on his American flag humping parade)

[Kevin Willis]

Why do people care so much about this. That Arcade Fire dude who was talking **** about America during his mvp Speech. He is actually American and he lives in Canada. So its the same thing. Stop giving this dummy Mark Jonas attention

Not the same thing Arcade Fire guy made "one" comment and not in a malicious way. Mark Jones goes out of his way
to "prove" he is American and trash Toronto. Arcade Fire guy says "I'm an American who's lived in Montreal for 15 years"

Mark Jones WANTS you to believe he is American and goes out of his way to try and "prove" it to everybody. I also
think he tries to hard to act black.

He has some kind of complex in his personality that obsesses the way he wants people to perceive him. He is
not comfortable in his own skin or who he is even at his old age.

[Canada_7]

Has anyone tweeted Paul Jones about this and ever got a response back? Interesting to see if he'd ever respond (probably not).

[RotR]

I read like 4 pages. Do y'all not recognize a troll?

[Gang of Four]

It's kinda odd how strong the nationalism is in US, the pressure to conform to other people's identity and forget one's own. It's just obnoxious. You can see that embodied not only in Mark Jones tweets here, but also in Ted Cruz's renouncing his Canadian citizenship. That is probably one of the most significant diferences between Canada and US. I don't think we really have such obnoxious nationalism in Canada.

Having multiple identities is not considered a bad thing here. If anything Canada prides itself in its multiple identities, it's multiculturalism, recognizing that there are not discrete, objective boundaries between cultures, and that cultures did not develop in isolation of one another, and therefore each culture is itself a combination of other cultures. So there no question in Canada about whether an immigrant should renounce their roots, because it is all part of what defines Canadian identity regardless. Because you can't reasonably expect immigrants to assimilate into their host culture if you don't allow them to contribute to that culure.

[720]

It's kinda odd how strong the nationalism is in US, the pressure to conform to other people's identity and forget one's own. It's just obnoxious. You can see that embodied not only in Mark Jones tweets here, but also in Ted Cruz's renouncing his Canadian citizenship. That is probably one of the most significant diferences between Canada and US. I don't think we really have such obnoxious nationalism in Canada.

Having multiple identities is not considered a bad thing here. If anything Canada prides itself in its multiple identities, it's multiculturalism, recognizing that there are not discrete, objective boundaries between cultures, and that cultures did not develop in isolation of one another, and therefore each culture is itself a combination of other cultures. So there no question in Canada about whether an immigrant should renounce their roots, because it is all part of what defines Canadian identity regardless. Because you can't reasonably expect immigrants to assimilate into their host culture if you don't allow them to contribute to that culure.

The thing is I wouldn't mind if he lived in America for most of his life like Cruz did and then made these comments but the guy was born/ lived here for 30 plus years. It's just odd.

[Kevin Willis]

I was going to flame him but it's not really worth it.

All I can say is that he talks like a lot of middle age white americans talk with his touch of slang. He has not only seperated from Canadian culture but from his black roots as well. He talks about being Jamaican but nothing about him suggests he's Jamaican. Nothing. He's trying to hard to fit in but acknowledging who he is would help him fit in more.

If he goes to some of the poorer areas of the states talking the way he does he won't be so anti-Canadian.

[C Court]

I stopped following Mark Jones on Twitter a couple of years ago when he was visiting Toronto and all he did was bitch about the lack of hip hop on radio stations and just about everything else in the Six.

[jeeves123]

It's really weird how he never puts a space after a period.like.where.did this guy.learn to.write?

Interesting that he liked this tweet though:

https://twitter.com/Ont_LOVE/status/699602125744160768

[ddx19]

Love how he hates Toronto but alway ends up calling any Raps ESPN games since he's on the D team behind Breen/Tirico/Pasch.

[V]

It's really weird how he never puts a space after a period.like.where.did this guy.learn to.write?

Interesting that he liked this tweet though:

https://twitter.com/Ont_LOVE/status/699602125744160768

Because all he read was "A+".

[V]

Love how he hates Toronto but alway ends up calling any Raps ESPN games since he's on the D team behind Breen/Tirico/Pasch.

Maybe that is where his disdain for Toronto comes from. He is sick and tired only calling our games for ESPN.

[NeoDragonKnight]

Whatever, we have the good Jones brother, let them keep the bad one, Paul is a class act.

[LastNameEver]

All it will take is landing a superstar and advancing far in the playoffs, every gripe about the city will become secondary.

[OvOh]

It brings me joy to see how unpopular this scrub is on Twitter.