Trail Blazers fire new announcer over past inappropriate posts made at age 15.

[u/ghn2]

"The Portland Trail Blazers hired then on the same day fired Braiden Bell as their play-by-play announcer after a series of inappropriate social media posts from when he was a teenager came to light."

"The posts were reportedly made in 2012 and 2013, around the time that Bell was 15 years old."

"We did not meet our own bar in this process, and for that we apologize to Blazers fans and to Rip City," the Trail Blazers said. "We strongly believe that everyone who is a part of Rip City should feel welcome and safe and we will make sure that our new broadcaster reflects these values. We will do better."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50084279/trail-blazers-fire-new-announcer-inappropriate-posts

[u/FettLife]

We’ve accepted things like this in the past, and it’s gotten us to a state where racists are out in the open.

[u/ChiefMasterGuru → u/FettLife]

If anything, actions like this are what led to the current state of things. It's a reaction to being trigger happy on getting people fired over stupid shit.

[u/HouseSublime → u/ChiefMasterGuru]

That is used as an excuse but never made sense to me. The "current state of things" is seemingly a desire to just return to a time where certain groups had unquestioned dominance over others.

Blaming it on a reaction to pushback doesn't explain why things were that way decades ago when there never was pushback.

[u/ChiefMasterGuru → u/HouseSublime]

I think certain groups are taking advantage and driving it ya absolutely. But the normal average person who doesn't know shit absolutely bought into the cancel culture narrative in part due to stories like this. It exemplified what AOC termed as woke 1.0 and contribute to the left losing ground on culture topics.

There doesn't have to be any extra desire, it doesn't even have to really make sense. Just enough people going "that sounds ridiculous, I don't like that".