I guarantee you a good chunk of why Colin said what he did is precisely to get more attention on him since he's making the move.
Now we have Charles Haley telling black players to act like white players and not get in trouble or arrested.......
The only thing that has changed is that now everything is recorded. Everyone on Earth has a portable camera and audio recorder in his or her pocket. I'm sure if the National Enquirer had gotten ahold of a tape of Hulkster dropping mad n-bombs back in 1987, it would have also been a problem for him. But now, thanks to modern technology, there is actual footage of Ariana Grande saying she hates America and Americans, because there is footage of everything. That ain't about to change, so complain all you want. But unless you're alone in a locked room that you're certain has no recording devices in it, watch what the **** you say out loud, because your mom, your boss and your pastor might hear it. This goes quintuple if your job is dependent on people loving you. Privacy is over, and not in the wrestling sense.
So you want someone to be punished for what they say? You might want to pack up and move to Iran. Are you being serious here? These interest groups have people by the balls, if they feel offended by any way they will try to end your career. Just ask the so many people who have been the victim of this new PC America.
He did, but there was enough equivocating and self deprecation to reflect the depth and complexity that validates both the public's response and his defense. Furthermore this is a completely private moment, I have no idea how we can expect people to reflect their best or most socially functional self in those settings. I hate everything about professional wrestling's inputs, process and the influence its commercial output has on local entertainment options and the economics of television broadcasting, but Hogan even excepting this appears to be the only sane or functioning adult of his entire generation.
In the old, "non-PC" America, entire groups of people used not even get careers to begin with, to say nothing of the educational or apprenticing opportunities that would facilitate them in the first place. That the problem still persists to some extent makes gatekeepers' guilt and paranoia regarding intolerant speech a bit more understandable.
You seem to not understand how free speech works. Hogan is not being arrested for what he said. He's not going to jail for it. His punishment comes at the hands of his employer. What do you want? For the government to force the WWE to keep Hogan on contract? It makes sense. WWE has a handful of black wrestlers. They have black viewers and they don't want to promote someone that said the things he just said. I think they went a little too far by removing him from their Hall Of Fame and I wonder if that will hold but meh, it's their decision.
The person that was reply to seemed like he wants people like Hogan to be punished by the law. Btw I have no problem with WWE firing hogan.
I thought only white hicks or children watched wrestling anyway. Seems like this wouldn't drive away their demographic.
Yeah, you'd be wrong by that. One of their biggest superstars ever was a Black-Samoan guy named The Rock after all. He used to be in a group called the Nation of Domination...anyways... The thing is, WWE tries to appeal to each demographic. They usually have wrestlers in each demographic.
That's completely incorrect. Nobody watches live theater and concerts are expensive and overbooked, so wrestling has played a pretty major role in both weekend or nighttime options for young males and minorities. They pretty much subsidize arenas in mid-sized cities without pro sports franchises in all four seasons.
It could be a work that allows for a racial therapy story line ending with a hyped up reinstatement; like a call back to Akeem's origin story.
The '80s were trauma counseling for the '70s; the first Rambo film was an anti-authority film about homeless vets and social work.
There have been rumors of WWE re-doing the black stable again. It certainly looks like it's what they could be doing. I guess the "New Day" could be, one of their wrestlers already had some tweets about it... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I'm not 8 feet tall, tho... <a href="http://t.co/W8LIJGkLO6">pic.twitter.com/W8LIJGkLO6</a></p>— Epsilon (@WWEBigE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBigE/status/624671775406714880">July 24, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Appropriate a culture, pilfer from its dialect, profit wildly from it, and regard its people as subhuman. Makes sense...</p>— Epsilon (@WWEBigE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBigE/status/624673729511993344">July 24, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> I don't think it's a work, but it would not be the first time WWE has used real life drama or even tragedy to advance a storyline. I mean they had a Muhammad Hassan who was an " Arab-American wrestler wanting relief from the increased prejudice and stereotypes created by the 9/11 attacks, as he enters professional wrestling." and would have been pretty big but I guess his character was far too controversial.
Sorry, GlendDice, but Freedom of Speech has worked. Yay for America! The govt. in no way limited or punished Hulk Hogan. Hulk said something that was racially offensive and faced the consequences. If you like the idea the of people not facing consequences for their actions, then perhaps the USA isn't for you. If you don't like the consequence given by the WWE, then you are free to not patronize them, or use your freedom of speech to organize a protest or boycott of the WWE. Surely all of the supposed victims of the new PC America you talked about will join you. I'll support your right to do that. It's how freedom of speech works. You could always man-up and support the idea of people actually facing consequences for their actions. I'm sick of weak-willed Americans thinking people should be allowed to do anything at all and never face any consequences.
