Reread the post you are referring to.
âPerformative outrage. Absolutely not. He genuinely means everything he saysâ
coupled with
ââŚhe is producing a podcast so the hyperbole is clearly for entertainment purposes.â
Square that one for me, would you? He genuinely wishes death/injury on people, or itâs hyperbole for entertainment purposes. They canât both be the case.
âThere is a difference between an outdated joke and hyperbole used to illustrate a point and being racist. One former are insensitive but lack intent, the latter does not.â
Again, racism is not a zero sum game. You donât collect enough points and earn a ânot a racistâ badge. Iâm not solely referring to this one comment either, here is Jim recently when it was suggested he watch NJPW:
âWhy donât you watch New Japan, because âweâ donât want a bunch of fuckinâ interchangeable Japanese guys who we canât understand what the fuck words are cominâ out of their mouthsâŚâ
Now, you can argue that he doesnât want to watch a show with promos etc. in another language, but interchangeable? Come onâŚ
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Easy. He genuinely hates those people but doesnât actually want to boil anyone in oil to make soap or sodomise anyone with a rusty fishing knife. I would expect that to be obvious. He used the hyperbolic actions to emphasise his dislike.
Iâm not saying I approve of his language as I donât, but again he is using hyperbole to illustrate a point that the casual wrestling audience doesnât care about Japanese wrestlers who canât cut a promo in English.
I did read it here is what you said. That you comment based on what you hear from second had sources and viral Twitter clips. Not actual consumption of the product in question. Which I find amusing based on the frequency which you comment. To me it is one thing to see/hear these reviews and say âyeah that is not for me.â And another to write essays about how bad something is based on other peopleâs opinions and out of context clips (which depending on what pages you follow, apparently AEW botches will give you a very different picture of the product)
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I meant the comment where I listed in detail the issues I had with Dynamite.
https://forum.postwrestling.com/t/feedback-aew-dynamite-3-10-21/12216/21
The casual wrestling audience also doesnât care about Jim CornetteâŚsooo. Is the dude the worst racist/sexist/homophobic guy ever no.
Does he at the very least play into those zones to please his target audience absolutely.
The guy is absolutely racist, he isnât a member of the KKK level of racist, but he certainly speaks in a racially insensitive manner and propagates stereotypes on the regular.
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I had no problem with that but it isnât as if you havenât commented on the program outside of that 2 week window.
As I said I have no issue with âI listen to podcasts and the show sounds bad to me so I donât watch it.â Followed by âI checked it out and I was right, it isnât for me, here is why.â
But the 6+ months of posts in between seem like overboard.
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To be fair, the things I commented on in the past were based on my experience of already having seen the product which werenât affected by not having watched it recently (e.g. matches being spot-fests, obvious cooperation spots, etc.) and things that didnât need viewing to comment on (e.g. angles not making sense, inconsistent and illogical booking, etc.).
To be fair the former doesnât need to be restated constantly if everyone already knows how you feel unless you actually watched and are breaking down a match.
The latter I have no issues with, though if you are not watching the project Iâm not sure why you would care terribly much about the angles and booking. I donât watch much WWE at the moment but I also donât comment much on the booking or angles. I think lots is bad but I just choose to not watch. I also fell off AEW and NXT for a long while, and have just recently started watching AEW again the last 2 weeks. I just didnât have the time or desire to watch wrestling for a while.
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This thread is the exact reason why I chose to just troll the shit out of this guy and get him to block my posts. I really donât understand why some of you get into the same debates with him over and over and over again.
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If we didnât argue endlessly on Internet forums we might have to adapt to modern society and start doing Tik Tok dances to get our social media fix. Unacceptable.
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He blocked me as well, he accused me of calling him racist or sexist (which I actually never did once) and now he no longer responds to my posts. Oh well lol, Iâm not loosing any sleep over it. I have zero desire to have the same argument on repeat like itâs Groundhog Day.
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