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re: Cubs finish investigation of racist hand gesture on TV, ban fan from Wrigley

Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:42 pm to
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
20734 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:42 pm to
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team officials met and decided it was more likely the gesture was used in a “racist way.”


I would love to know how they came to that conclusion.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
52804 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:43 pm to
Oldman doing work in this thread

Didn’t know this was a thing til this. I’m confused to who gets credit/blame for it

If a bartender asks me if I’m sure I want a 9th beam and coke and I flash the ok sign am I a racist?
This post was edited on 5/8/19 at 11:45 pm
Posted by dupergreenie
Member since May 2014
10213 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:43 pm to
Well he is white so that's probably it.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45507 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:46 pm to
If someone could ask 4chan to make the cubs logo a symbol of white supremacy I’d appreciate it very much.
Posted by OldmanBeasley
Charlotte
Member since Jun 2014
11220 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:47 pm to
I feel like he should like definitely be charged with a hate crime. He’s like literally attacking that poor POC
Posted by Glorious
Mobile
Member since Aug 2014
26429 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:49 pm to
It’s physically painful how stupid some people are
Posted by CaptSpaulding
Member since Feb 2012
6980 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:51 pm to
It’s ok, he can just go back to being a Red Sox fan. If that doesn’t work out, his grandpa was a lifelong Astros fan.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
144660 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:52 pm to
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Flash it below your waist and you get to slap the person on the neck who looks at it.


It was a shot to the arm when we played it.

Hell, we were playing it at last high school reunion.
Posted by dupergreenie
Member since May 2014
10213 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:52 pm to
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It’s physically painful how stupid some people are


This.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38562 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:52 pm to
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If someone could ask 4chan to make the cubs logo a symbol of white supremacy I’d appreciate it very much.
I heard Cubs stands for Caucasians for Undermining Black Success.
Posted by OldmanBeasley
Charlotte
Member since Jun 2014
11220 posts
Posted on 5/8/19 at 11:55 pm to
Woah, the FBI totally needs to investigate this. This type of like white patriarchal bigotry must be stopped
Posted by dupergreenie
Member since May 2014
10213 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:01 am to
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heard Cubs stands for Caucasians for Undermining Black Success.





I work with a guy who believes in the illuminati and stuff even crazier than that and he has said that the media or "media" puts subliminal messages in advertising and what not. I thought he was just fascinated with 'they live' or other tales like that but no he really believes that stuff. Sometimes when bored we will get him started on vaccines and how the government is placing microchips in us.
Posted by BCLA
Bossier City
Member since Mar 2005
9292 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:03 am to
To be fair, those pics of Barry O he's doing the normal way, the guy who got banned was doing it upside down, which I learned today was racist.

For us it was a gotcha looking at my crotch moment if you got caught looking at it below the waist.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
52804 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:05 am to
Had to bring white people into it didn’t you

It’s Continue Undermining Black Success. We meet every other Tuesday at Chick fil a
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38562 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:07 am to
my bad
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
105146 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:08 am to
They’ll just have to sit on the apartment roofs across from the outfield next to the Bundys.
Posted by sealawyer
Coonassganistan
Member since Nov 2012
3145 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:13 am to
I spent a good 15 minutes trying to see if this was something from the onion.

Apparently it’s not.

America is done. Last one out turn off the lights.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10967 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:21 am to
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After a daylong investigation...that team officials met and decided it was more likely the gesture was used in a “racist way.”


They did such an exhaustive day long investigation to feel confident that there is at least a 51% chance that something most people would see as the ok sign or circle game was done by the person in a racist way and deserved a ban.

They are both covering themselves against the SWJ backlash and covering themselves against a potential lawsuit by not naming the person they are branding racist only using their in house sabermetrics findings on ok signs by white males that 51% of the time, it’s racist every time.

This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 12:27 am
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
61604 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:24 am to
It's not like the Cubs will have have their security on the lookout for this dude. He'll be able to go back to games. This just gives them an out to claim he is trespassing if he ever does anything that gains attention. It's PR move.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
30563 posts
Posted on 5/9/19 at 12:31 am to
I’d lawyer up. Show them some ancestry where you are 5% African or something. Throw it back at the Cubs.

No doubt they’ll settle.
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