ESPN Fires Curt Schilling after Facebook Post

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years ago to Culture
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I wonder what Ayn Rand/John Galt would think about this silliness.


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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds to me like ESPN needs one of these popular PC "safe spaces" where they can all go and not be offended by people who have some common sense.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago
    Curt thinking like a decent heterosexual (if not just rational) man, who I'm certain wants to protect women and little girls from pervs who'd use a transgender excuse to walk in on them, has become PC extinct. I've had it!
    What kind of enabling screwed up mentally sick namby pamby bizarro madhouse environment do libtards expect us to live in anyway?
    Oh, never mind. Just figured out my answer by looking at my question. Stared at what I wrote.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Another old fashioned rule I would add is don't look at, think about, or concern yourself with other people's private parts in the bathroom.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago
    "I wonder what Ayn Rand/John Galt would think about this silliness."
    In the time of AS, media was limited. Now anyone can start website, blog, video channel, or podcast.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years ago
    Take off your hats and bow your heads to the PC Police.
    We are devolving into a race of idiots, are we not?
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    Posted by mccannon01 9 years ago
    I may be old fashioned and I don't care whether or not you're religious, but IMHO there is a simple four-step process that can be used to sort this all out:

    1) In the privacy of your home strip naked.
    2) Stand before a mirror.
    3) Objectively observe the configuration between your legs.
    4) If you see a penis, use the men's room. If you see a vagina, use the lady's room.

    If for some reason (and I don't care what it is) you have a vagina and you think you're Napoleon or if you have a penis and you think you're Josephine see step 4 for what to do.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago
    I think Ayn would say that both Kurt and ESPN are entitled to their opinions and freedom of actions, and be fully responsible for the consequences. However, I doubt she would personally support transgender silliness.

    Hypothetically, the reverse set of positions would generate the opposite consequences. Imagine a person supporting transgender bathrooms being fired. The result would be a lawsuit and government intervention SUPPORTING the employee! This is a real problem!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago
    I am so happy to say this. Along with TV I have zero zip nada contact with social media. ESPN I know what is a Kurt Schilling? Never mind it's rhetorical humor.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years ago
    I fire ESPN for their full exclusion of freedom of speech and expression. I am hurt and offended by the total lack of individual rights afforded to a human being by them. I hope they keep losing money for Disney with that management.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years ago
    There is nothing anywhere that guarantees "transgender restroom rights."
    Time for Curt to start his own fishing and hunting show. Then he can take a sports market away from the a$$es at ESPN.
    This reminds me of the firing of Howard Costell for racism for an innocent remark made while commenting during a football game. Cosell had spent his career being equally insulting to all races.
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