Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
What-about-ism is a bad hill to not do anything on. It is a fair critique that both Gruden and several others should be gone. Dan Snyder absolutely should not be walking the streets a free man. But him walking free doesn't mean Gruden gets a free pass either.

If your point is the cancel culture mad dog should be aimed at Snyder and several others next, I agree. If your point is that it's not fair that the cancel culture mad dog should have aimed at others first, you're not necessarily wrong, but unfortunately we don't live in a utopia where policing people goes in order from the top down. It's unfortunately super randomly aimed. So it drives conversation nowhere to have whataboutism. Ideally, yes, Snyder should fall first. Tyreek Hill and Kareem Hunt should probably never play a snap again. But arguing that point in defense of Gruden and saying Gruden shouldn't have been cut out until they were because the standard is unfair is somewhat equivalent to saying you can't punish a rapist until you punish the murderer. Just seems like you're arguing in bad faith and aligning yourself with someone who by all purposes is a dipshit to put that in writing.
My problem is the way his emails have been portrayed. People are calling his email about the NFLPU rep racist without any solid evidence. The guys lips are massive. It's a little juvenile to make fun of somebody's appearance, but the fact that some racists like to stereotype a particular physical feature shouldn't damn somebody making a comment on an individual. A coworker of mine got lip injections and she looked awful, and I certainly thought, even if I didn't say it, that her lips looked huge. If she had been african american, I don't think it would have occurred to me that it was somehow racist to notice that her lips were abnormally large. Gruden certainly could be a racist, but I don't think him criticizing an individual african american's looks really justifies calling him that without some supporting evidence.

On referring to Michael Sams as queer, I'm sure Gruden didn't mean it in a nice way, but that's not exactly a verboten word. Lots of people identify as queer and use it in a non-derogatory way (and did so in the 2000's).

I'm guessing that his emails probably have worse in them, and that's whey he is resigning and he's hoping they won't become public, but that's just a guess. I certainly wouldnt' trust the people reviewing them to portray them accurately.