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Harrison Butker is a placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was apparently chosen to give a commencement speech at a Catholic school in the area near Kansas City (of note, he went to school in Georgia). The speech was politically charged.
https://archive.ph/pKCoQ
Butker ripped President Biden and his hypocritical stance on abortion, took an unveiled shot at Pride Month, unmasked some of the lies born during the Covid crisis, addressed the "tyranny" of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and lifted women as mothers, wives and homemakers to counter the "diabolical lies" they've been fed by society.
He also discussed men's and women's roles in the household. Notably, he encouraged embracing the role of a homemaker.
This set off a firestorm in the press and online.
Several thousand signatures have been collected in multiple petitions on change.org to have him fired from his team.
https://archive.ph/vK03a
Numerous news outlets have published stories on the "controversial" speech, many misrepresenting it.
https://archive.ph/Jf6ZO
https://archive.ph/OjaMy
The NFL has decried the views expressed in the speech.
https://archive.ph/hbcyw
The current cherry on top is that the Twitter account for the city of Kansas City tweeted out the city that Butker lives in.
https://archive.ph/pB8Bd
Whether that is really a doxx is questionable (at least to me), but the point remains that a city publicly singled out a person for his views to at least distance itself from him. The twxtter account also apparently liked some approving responses before deleting the tweet and apologies-ing for it being 'shared.'
Man, Yahoo has multiple stories disparaging Butker, everything from disavowment, to teammates calling him a weird loner, and the chef's kiss article a claim from some chic on tiktok claiming he fucked a male cheerleader in college.
So the woke response is either slander/defamation or shaming gay men? Oh boy, I hope that one gets picked up by all the dumbest people rallying behind this story because the backlash by their pets would be glorious.
No they are just calling the kicker a hypocrite and saying anybody who disagrees with them is closeted.
Given an article I saw this week that says there is a women-only social media site where they make up fake stories to slander men, including one case where someone uploaded an AI-generated face and they still made all these fake claims about the "guy" in question, it's pretty clear that this is the modus operandi these days...
Character assassination libel isn't exactly a new thing, but it is crazy how much that plays into cancel culture, at this point...