• Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    He didn’t ‘do’ anything. He’s just another artist/entertainer who doubled down on magatry despite their career being built by a diversity of loyal fans. Just another famous idiot finding out after fucking around.

    Wayne Gretzky is still considered the greatest hockey player of all time… but as far as most Canadians are concerned his home ice is in Mara Lago now.

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      6 hours ago

      He didn’t ‘do’ anything.

      untrue. he spread and normalized hate speech and misinformation. he damaged lives with his platform and negligence. I would even go as far to say his anti-vaccine rhetoric killed at least one person, probably more.

      he labeled black Americans as a hate group which I’m certain normalized the racism in certain groups and only served to take away more opportunities away from POC.

      he also questioned the amount of deaths during the Holocaust, attempting to minimize the impact of the deaths.

      dude was more than a piece of shit. now he’s a slowly rotting corpse.

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        5 hours ago

        Agreed. That’s why I put “scare quotes” around the word “do” to imply that he actually did do something. I wasn’t defending them I was responding specifically to the comment above.

        Even the couple of links here don’t shed any light on the details of ‘why’.

        The why is simply that and entertain disrespecting the fans that supported their success is a recipe for failure.