Kentaro Kobayashi, the Director of the Tokyo Games Opening Ceremony, has been fired from his job mere days before the big event due to a off hand one liner joke he made in 1998 while hosting some television show.
Director of Olympics opening ceremony sacked over past Holocaust joke
The new scandal is a further drag on public enthusiasm toward the Games, which have already drawn strong opposition amid concerns about coronavirus infection risks.www.japantimes.co.jp
Kentaro Kobayashi of course, already apologized for the joke and stated that he's progressed in his humor and entertainment since then, but that didn't matter.
This is the third high profile person cancelled from these Olympics due to various kerfuffles. Keigo Oyamada, a 52 year musician who created a four minute composition that was to be performed at the Olympic Ceremonies, stepped down from the Olympics when his admission that he had severely bullied a disabled classmate resurfaced, albeit this happened when he was a teenager.
A month before that, Yoshiro Mori, an Organizing Committee President, resigned after stating Women speak too much at meetings.
Carrie Underwood made the mistake of liking the above tweet and is getting canceled.
Ilya Shapiro Tweet said:Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identify politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn't fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy so we'll get lesser black woman. Thank heaven for small favors?
Because Biden said he's only consider[ing] black women for SCOTUS, his nominee will always have an asterisk attached. Fitting that the Court takes up affirmative action next term.
Ilya Shapiro Apology said:I sincerely and deeply apologize for some poorly drafted tweets I posted late Wednesday night. Issues of race are of course quite sensitive, and debates over affirmative action are always fraught. My intent was to convey my opinion that excluding potential Supreme Court candidates, most notably Chief Judge Srinivasan, simply because of their race or gender, was wrong and harmful to the long term reputation of the Court. It was not to cast aspersions on the qualifications of a whole group of people, let alone question their worth as human beings. A person's dignity and worth simply do not, and should not, depend on any immutable characteristic. Those who know me know that I am sincere about these sentiments, and I would be more than happy to meet with any of you who have doubts about the quality of my heart.
In seeking to join the Georgetown community, I wanted to contribute to your worthy mission to educate students, inform the public, and engage in the battle of legal ideas that lead to justice and fairness. I still want to do that. Recklessly framed tweets like this week's obviously don't advance that mission, for which I am also truly sorry. Regardless of whether anyone agrees or disagrees with me on a host of legal and policy issues, I can and will do better with regard to how I communicate my positions.
Kneeler.Georgetown University is apparently re-considering hiring Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute for a position in the Georgetown School of Law because Ilya Shapiro tweeted this:
In response to this Georgetown Universitys 'Black Law Students Association' demanded his firing and an internet outrage mob is attempting to put pressure on the University to do just that. Ilya Shapiro already deleted the tweet and issued an apology, but strangely its done little to douse the outrage against him.
Don’t Fire Ilya Shapiro | National Review
If Georgetown allows itself to be bullied, it will be perpetrating an outlandish injustice and trampling the values of open speech.www.nationalreview.com
Georgetown Should Not Fire Ilya Shapiro for a Bad Tweet
Georgetown University's Black Law Students Association is demanding the firing of Ilya Shapiro, a director of constitutional studies at the…reason.com
And I'm shocked. Shocked!In response to this Georgetown Universitys 'Black Law Students Association' demanded his firing and an internet outrage mob is attempting to put pressure on the University to do just that. Ilya Shapiro already deleted the tweet and issued an apology, but strangely its done little to douse the outrage against him.
The Federalist said:When Baron and his readers try to post links to the comic or media appearances on Reddit, they often find the posts banned. When a reader tried to link to my interview with Baron on the largest comics’ social media page on the net, the r/comics subreddit, the post was removed by moderators for “misinformation and racism.”
According to the subreddit’s rules, the post should have been in the clear. A user tried to get an explanation from the moderators: “Please point out the ‘racism’ or misinformation’ in the post that merely shared a link about Mike Baron’s Thin Blue Line graphic novel.” In return, he was muted.
The Federalist said:Update, Jan. 30: Late Friday evening, following the publication of this article, Facebook allowed an ad to start running for Mike Baron’s Facebook page. Facebook ads authorization had not been given previously. The ad started running as if Thin Blue Line had been wrongly categorized to begin with. In addition, the Thin Blue Line Facebook Page learned it had been temporarily locked out of Facebook Messenger for three days following the original ad denial. Frustratingly, but typically, there has been no explanation from Facebook nor even a notification as to why the ad change happened nor why they were blocked in the first place.
And I'm shocked. Shocked!
Well, maybe not that shocked.
It just seems like every fucking racist thing to come out of universities these days are from Blacks' affirmative action groups, or have come from Whites that have bought into the whole "White Guilt" bullshit.
smh They're really not helping Black Americans' collective image/the stereotype people have formed of them, here.
Amusingly enough (in a darkly humoured way), a 4chan post said it best. Yes, bloody 4chan.
As a (paraphrased) tl;dr:
We [Americans] were the least racist generation for decades, and even then what little racism remained was on a steady decline on the whole in society.
We have Black idols in the forms of singers, actors/actresses, celebrities, politicians, rappers, and prominent public figures.
We lowered our guards, embraced Blacks as just Americans and our friends/family without seeing the colour of their skin, and we judged them as people/their character as we would anyone else... and then they collectively stabbed us all in the back.
On the whole, they proved the stereotypes that our racist great-grandparents used to rave on about around the Thanksgiving Table, the people we used to roll our eyes at and put up with as they had diatribes, completely correct.
Those relatives are probably eating crow, right now.
And now they're wondering why racism against Black people is again rising dramatically; why people are now viewing Black people on the whole so negatively as they were decades on decades ago, despite supporting hypocritical groups like Burn, Loot, and Murder as they go utterly apeshit in cities; questioning why there's such a wide divide growing again, despite their "attempts" at forcing "equality" (aka anti-White racism).
They're like toddlers who stick their hands on a burning coal, scream in pain, and then stick their hands back onto the coal, confused as to why they're burnt/in pain.
Cry about it, you freakshows.Singer Adele criticized at gender neutral Awards event for stating she "loves being a Woman."
Adele criticized over Brits award speech after saying she loves 'being a woman'
Adele was criticized for saying she “loves being a woman” while accepting the first gender-neutral artist of the year award at the 2022 Brits awards on Tuesday.www.foxnews.com
Because people like him are born and brainwashed to kneel.*sighs* Never. Apologize.
Why can't people grasp that simple strategy. It's literally all they need to persevere in this fight.