For decades Ron co-hosted Coach's Corner, the most popular 8 minutes in Canadian TV with hockey legend Don Cherry. 4 hrs ago Don lamented that hardly anyone wears a poppy, the symbol of remembrance for war dead. He specifically called out immigrants (no mention of race) for coming here and not supporting veterans by paying a couple bucks for a poppy pin. The woke left mob, which had been going after Cherry for years, finally got their point of flesh as Don was fired. Ron did nothing to defend him.
A few days ago Ron decided to become a free speech champion. No, he didn't apologize to Don and say his employers should re-hire him. No he didn't come out defended vax skeptics, the Freedom Convoy supporters who had their bank accounts frozen, the pastors who were jailed for holding church during covid or peacefully protesting drag time story hours, Trudeau's multiple censorship bills, etc
No, the issue that Ron felt was unacceptable to be restricted was...rainbow hockey tape.
Op-ed- "NHL, NHLPA Pride-tape ban misses the point" https://archive.ph/DGpQP
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Not only that, he compares it to Jackie Robinson...no I'm not kidding:
However powerful the IOC thought itself to be, Tommie Smith and John Carlos wearing Black Power gloves on the medal podium in Mexico City 1968 stood for something far greater than a medal or an anthem or an Olympic Games. They stood for their rights. Like Jackie Robinson, who marched in the name of civil rights in 1958. Roberto Clemente and the Pittsburgh Pirates, who missed opening day to attend the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. Like Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Colin Kaepernick, Luke Prokop ... an unbroken line of unbroken promises. A promise by these athletes not to let bad leadership bully the truth.
Rebel News covered this, it's behind a paywall but the audio is available for free along with a small summary: https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_october_18_2023
https://www.rebelnews.com/ron_macleans_free_speech_rant_misses_the_mark
Ron actually did reply to their request for comment. I screenshotted both the questions and answers: https://imgur.com/a/S0ihX8g
tl;dr It's not hypocritical because what Don said wasn't true (it was) and that Don saying "you people" "promotes hatred".
This is always their “reasoning” when we do it, it’s to stop hate, when you do it, it’s to harm others. Not only is this just “no bad tactics, only bad targets” but it’s so morally bankrupt that they will force a sexual ideology on children without a second thought.
How is it that reasonable people don’t understand that constantly shoving a small percentage of the population into everything gets annoying very fast.
We must accelerate this process to get normies as fed up as we are.
Every waking moment must be spent celebrating sodomites and other sexually disoriented people.
Dumb as fuck.
Of course the NHL, like Rogers/Sportsnet, are private companies and you don't have free speech for paid work. The difference is Cherry was a money maker for Rogers and the gay shit was hurting business for the NHL.
Also to note this rainbow tape ban doesn't apply to non-NHL events and players are free to participate in pride events off-ice https://archive.ph/VvBgn
when did everything in the west become about faggotry? when was the moment?
The balance tipped for good when gay marriage was legalized federally. I couldn't give you an accurate timeline for the buildup to that moment, but the legalization with Obergefell in 2015 made it permanent.
When Bruce Jenner killed that woman and got away with it by not calling his lawyer but by putting on a dress.
What a faggot.
What's Don Cherry up to these days?
Still doing the podcast he started after getting fired.
Sounds like the kind of asshole people need to harass incessantly and throw rainbow colored paint on in public in minecraft.
The funny thing about Prokop is people think he deserves to be in the NHL. Basically he's a project that's far behind the development curve of most plugs.
He has a shot because he's 6'6 and can skate, so all he really has to do is be passable defensively.
How does this happen to a man?