Re: Don Cherry no longer with Coach's Corner
Originally Posted by
rataylor22
I personally believe more/all Canadians should wear poppies.
I also believe it's not my decision whether people wear poppies or not, and it is each person's choice to do so. I also think it's getting harder to do, as poppy donation boxes are harder to find and fewer people carry cash/change around.
I believe Cherry's specific message is that immigrants are the ones not wearing poppies. I believe (based on his own words, both on Saturday night and in interviews since) his specific intention was to single out and target immigrants (of any race) and blame them for the issue. I believe this (along with many other things he said) absolutely were a fireable offense.
If his message was "everyone in Canada needs to put more thought towards veterans and wear poppies", that's a fine message. However he's openly admitted that was not his message.
Yes but one of my main pet peeves is when people get out the pitchforks about these kind of things, is they often don't add any substance to the conversation. They simply just want to remove what they view as the problem as fast as they can and carry on. Was there some truth in what Cherry said? I am not sure because I don't have the definitive statistics to back it up. Making what he said an opinion, much like a lot of the arguments on this very thread are, opinions. Instead and it might be happening out there already , go run an unbiased survey to see who buys poppy's, who feels it's important etc... Than challenge Cherry's view. The result would or should be more people wearing poppy's, more people honoring our troops and more people remembering why we all have the freedoms to have this conversation in the first place. A positive comes out of this. Instead of two negatives. Can we not all agree on that? Instead too many people just want to say I'm offended and have everyone rush to their defense.
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