Re: Don Cherry no longer with Coach's Corner
Originally Posted by
Canucks_fan18
I don't think he is referring to the ones who dies in World War 2, I think he's referring to the modern day one's who in his view don't wear Poppy's showing support for veteran's and remembrance day. Really Ron, should of piped up and said "Yes Cherry, that may be the case or may not but I see just as many millennials of all nationality not wearing Poppy's, the real issue is that people are forgetting about how important remembrance day actually is" Then and this is hypothetical, if Cherry said "No I mean only those people", than we can officially label him guilty. I would of liked to see a proper rebuttal from the PC police, with statistics on poppy buyers and surveys and challenge Cherry to a debate. Instead were offended (by in my opinion something pretty minor) and Cherry needs to pay!
Hell, we wouldn't need to make all these guesses as to his motive if Cherry had just said, "everybody should wear a poppy". Poof. Then none of this would have ever happened. Unfortunately he didn't do that. Why he singled out immigrants as the biggest offenders, only Don Cherry will ever know for sure. Is he xenophobic? Confused? Oblivious? Who knows? All we know is that it was considered offensive by enough people that Rogers decided that it was time to part ways with him. Was it offensive? Well I guess that is the million dollar question. It appears most who felt the brunt of Cherry's 'you people who come here' rant were hurt by his comments. I can't really blame them.
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