On August 25 2015, Major League Baseball star Curt Schilling posted the Tweet below, which he deleted after approximately ten minutes and for which he apologized:
Because Schilling posted the above, ESPN pulled Schilling from the network's Little League World Series assignment.
Additional reading...Curt Schilling and the Death of Free Speech: He told the truth. He apologized. It still wasn’t enough.
He shouldn't have apologized. He should have told them to stuff their friggin' job. I know, easy for me to say and I sure hope I live up to the standards I set for others when my turn comes. But this sort of conduct just reinforces and emboldens the totalitarians.
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ReplyDeleteI agree.
There's also "First They Came" to consider.