joe galiba
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Honestly not sure which one is funnier.
is this a tweet from the Onion?
Honestly not sure which one is funnier.
Honestly not sure which one is funnier.
The p-word was a suspension from last season, they are different incidents.Article with quote from agent
According to the above link, his agent said it was mennonite. They could be related. Mennonite preach peace and non-violence. He could have called him a p^$$% and a mennonite. Calling him a mennonite would actually fit that situation, and is derogatory toward those beliefs implying their passivity cowardice and not belief.
I don't think he actually got the boot from the game, he was suspended afterwards. It falls under racist and religious insults/slurs. Which, I don't exactly fault the league for not wanting to deal with any backlash from having to determine what sort of slurs are worse.He probably didn’t get tossed for that specifically and solely. Probably was running his mouth for a bit before the refs got tired of it and sent him packing. Not sure why it warrants 5 games but if i had to guess there’s probably a more reasonable explanation. That bring said, if anyone calls me a Unitarian, you are getting 5. GDTs.
He fell into a crevasse and is currently missing somewhere under the arena.I could have missed it but has there been any update on the Jiricek injury?
check with the guys whose names end in vowels, they usually know, if they are talking, at leastHe fell into a crevasse and is currently missing somewhere under the arena.
check with the guys whose names end in vowels, they usually know, if they are talking, at least
Both can be true.He was suspended for calling someone a p**** too. You can say other shitty people ruined it, but the way they apply the rules are also silly.
Or, you could actually look at the truth and realize that Landon Sim using that word doesn’t make him a “bad person”. It doesn’t even mean he’s anti-semantic or racist at all. People say a lot of things on the ice (and in all sports) that they don’t even mean. They’ll say anything just to get under someone’s skin. Guys threaten to kill each other. Does that mean they’re future murderers?I feel like it’s obvious but maybe it isn’t…
The reason you can’t call someone a Mennonite is anti-semitism. I forget who it was but there was a big hubbub a few seasons back about a player using an anti-semitic slur against another player. Welp, this is a youth league so we can’t have that. And you can’t just ban calling someone a hard-J, you have to make it general or else you’re just favoring one class of people. So it’s not anti-semitic speech, it’s any speech which denigrates someone’s religious beliefs. So, the people you really ought to be mad at are the racists and anti-semites of the world, for whom these rules exist in the first place. It’s not “wokism gone wild,” it’s bad people ruining what other people can/can’t do.
@MortiestOfMortys didn't call Sim a bad person.Or, you could actually look at the truth and realize that Landon Sim using that word doesn’t make him a “bad person”. It doesn’t even mean he’s anti-semantic or racist at all. People say a lot of things on the ice (and in all sports) that they don’t even mean. They’ll say anything just to get under someone’s skin. Guys threaten to kill each other. Does that mean they’re future murderers?
Pretty judgmental of you to automatically rule everyone like that as “bad people”, and quite honestly, if you get that easily offended over trash talk then you are very weak-minded.
This is fine, but he was suspended last year for calling someone a p***y, that isn't@MortiestOfMortys didn't call Sim a bad person.
But trying to police this type of stuff under the standard of 'is the person who said the thing a good or bad person' isn't feasible. This is a situation where I understand a 'no tolerance' policy. It is not realistic to expect a league to tier the 'badness' of words or to try and figure out which religions you can make fun of, which you can't, and then which words you can and can't use when making fun of the religions that you can make fun of.
"Don't shit talk someone based on their religious beliefs" is a pretty reasonable rule for a league to have in place and having that apply equally to all religions is a much better standard than trying to create different tiers/classes of religions/terms that can be targeted. Creating a system where some religious beliefs are off limits but some are acceptable is just not remotely something that the league should be doing.
Pretty sure we have all called someone worse than a Mennonite. I am not sure it is suspension worthy. If you call someone a name then answer for it on the ice not off.
Self policing was a good part of hockey that I always thought was an important part of the game.