America needs to chill out over Jon Gruden. Seriously, our country continues to overreact to something that has seemingly been resolved. This isn’t even a conservative or a liberal thing anymore. It is just a group of people reenacting the Rabble Rabble Rabble scene from South Park.
The Touchback Co-Founder Andrew Davis summed up Gruden’s best, “He was an ass, got fired. He has paid the right price. It’s over.”
Rabble Rabble Rabble.
Sorry, force of habit. What I meant to say is that it’s not over and America refuses to let this issue go. The most troublesome thing about this all is that you have a group of people who are trying to poorly camouflage clearly racist arguments under the guise of cancel culture.
Let’s start there. Clay Travis, Fox News and all those fear-mongering conservative pundits immediately began to compare Gruden’s situation to Antonio Brown and Deshaun Watson. On the surface, their argument is those two did something and haven’t been punished. However, what they are really saying is that it is unfair black players got away with something while a white man was fired.
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Deshaun Watson has been accused of sexually assaulting 24 different women. He is currently eligible to play in the NFL. Yet Jon Gruden was just forced to resign as a coach because of years old derogatory emails. Actions used to matter more than words. Now it’s the opposite.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 12, 2021
Firstly, Brown and Watson didn’t get away with anything. The latter’s case is ongoing while the former was suspended and went through the legal process. Secondly, all three situations are entirely different and shouldn’t be compared to one another. And finally, Gruden’s race had nothing to do with anything.
The NFL and Las Vegas Raiders didn’t make an example out of Gruden because he was white. It had everything to do with a pattern of unacceptable behavior over an extended period of time. End of story.
Rabble Rabble Rabble.
Apologies again, that is not the end of the story. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced that Jon Gruden is being removed from their Ring of Honor. This has driven America into a frenzy that has devolved into a major clusterfuck. Literally, no one on either side knows what is being argued here.
Both should be removed? Both should stay? Anyone who has ever done anything remotely wrong needs to be retroactively punished? Seriously, people don’t even have a point anymore. America just needs to chill out over Jon Gruden. He was wrong and is now dealing with the consequences. We should learn from this moment and try to make the country a better, more mindful place.
Let’s see what Twitter thinks of this entirely reasonable request:
Indeed, Rabble Rabble Rabble.
