So the idea is, it's OK to think (and truly believe) negative and insulting things about people so long as, when you speak, you say the exact opposite of what you think. That makes sense. And seems very healthy for the community and culture.
Read above. If you have nothing nice to say - we don’t want to hear it. Being a bully isn’t ideal.
But aren't we assuming Wertheim actually thinks and believes the comments he said?
You seem to only be worried about the fact that he said what he believed. Not that he believes it. Am I misunderstanding you?
Apparently Wertheim missed the memo. Lucky there was a mob around to remind him
He's a scum-bag. What comes around goes around.
Actually, we now appear to live in a world in which the slightest disciplinary action directed at any public personage (especially if he's a man) is mischaracterized as being "cancelled." Come back in a year and see how Wertheim is faring. I doubt that we'll find him on skid row.
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How do you figure? He had multiple issues (calling WTA players beached whales) that never got addressed and they did nothing until after he got arrested. Do that at your job and see what happens? You won't get canceled, you get FIRED and in some states you can be sued personally for harassment. In the state I am from, you might get punched in the mouth.JW situation has zero in common with the JG situation. You should run the new Cancel Commission in the Harris administration.
Dodged a few swings in the process.
The Zen of Jon Wertheim's Forehead
This whole episode is absurd. The world has lost its mind in so many ways and from every side. Someone please tell me the last ten years have been a hallucination, or wake me up and tell me it has all been a weird dream.
No, I am saying they had to take some sort of action for an employee or contractor joking about a contractors looks because of how they handled incidents int he past. I don't think either is an appropriate way to act at a job.
In 10 years you'll be longing for the "sanity" of 2025.The Zen of Jon Wertheim's Forehead
This whole episode is absurd. The world has lost its mind in so many ways and from every side. Someone please tell me the last ten years have been a hallucination, or wake me up and tell me it has all been a weird dream.
See, @Mike Bulgakov, just "business as usual". Nothing to see here.
Someone said they linked it at the beginning of this thread it the other. I searched for his name plus krejcikova and the clip popped up.What was the exact quote for which he was suspended? It is not even mentioned in this thread. Is it forbidden to repeat the quote a public news story?
Or are TTW readers once again opining without knowledge of the facts at hand?
www.nbcnews.com
Who cares? Commentators are worthless anyway. They arnt doing or creating anything productive. Just giving their two cents about people who actually have value. I certainly don’t need to hear his opinions about anything
Why can't we simply post the actual quote here? In the very thread that is purportedly discussing the quote that has never been cited.
Google results are still very vague about the quote. Only generally describes it as "inappropriate".
It is like pulling teeth trying to get the actual quote. This is counterproductive as it leaves it to the reader's imagination as to what was actually said.
Therein lies the problem with Cancel Culture/DEI. Extremist ideologues will inevitably eat their own.
So now even private off-air comments are grounds for cancelation. Cancel Culture run amok.
No beautiful/ugly people. No smart/dumb people. There is no spectrum. None. Everyone is the same.
The nation resoundingly rejected this extremism on Nov 5.
Tennis Channel removes Jon Wertheim for 'inappropriate' remark about Barbora Krejčíková
"I made some deeply regrettable comments off-air. I acknowledge them. I apologize for them. I reached out immediately and apologized to the player,” Wertheim wrote on X.
lol rejected the extremism but yet embraced the absolute worst liar bully demagogue racist fascist felon narcissist. Sounds about right.Why can't we simply post the actual quote here? In the very thread that is purportedly discussing the quote that has never been cited.
Google results are still very vague about the quote. Only generally describes it as "inappropriate".
It is like pulling teeth trying to get the actual quote. This is counterproductive as it leaves it to the reader's imagination as to what was actually said.
Therein lies the problem with Cancel Culture/DEI. Extremist ideologues will inevitably eat their own.
So now even private off-air comments are grounds for cancelation. Cancel Culture run amok.
No beautiful/ugly people. No smart/dumb people. There is no spectrum. None. Everyone is the same.
The nation resoundingly rejected this extremism on Nov 5.
Tennis Channel removes Jon Wertheim for 'inappropriate' remark about Barbora Krejčíková
"I made some deeply regrettable comments off-air. I acknowledge them. I apologize for them. I reached out immediately and apologized to the player,” Wertheim wrote on X.
I don't think it's a matter of not typing it out. I couldn't remember exactly what was said, and someone said they heard zheng's name, too, which I didn't catch. He was kind of mumbling to himself, while nobody was paying any attention.Why can't we simply post the actual quote here? In the very thread that is purportedly discussing the quote that has never been cited.
Google results are still very vague about the quote. Only generally describes it as "inappropriate".
It is like pulling teeth trying to get the actual quote. This is counterproductive as it leaves it to the reader's imagination as to what was actually said.
Therein lies the problem with Cancel Culture/DEI. Extremist ideologues will inevitably eat their own.
So now even private off-air comments are grounds for cancelation. Cancel Culture run amok.
No beautiful/ugly people. No smart/dumb people. There is no spectrum. None. Everyone is the same.
The nation resoundingly rejected this extremism on Nov 5.
Tennis Channel removes Jon Wertheim for 'inappropriate' remark about Barbora Krejčíková
"I made some deeply regrettable comments off-air. I acknowledge them. I apologize for them. I reached out immediately and apologized to the player,” Wertheim wrote on X.
This is Krejcikova's statement (posted on Twitter). She's not calling for his career to be "aborted", she's just expressing her disappointment in a fairly civil tone.
This casual off-air remark would not have even been a story 10 years ago. It would have been laughed off.
The response has been hugely disproportionate to the offense.
No need to be disingenuous. Professional standards did not change. The political climate however did very much change.
You know which way the wind blows. Don't be a climate-change denialist.
Wertheim said "Who do you think I am, huh? Barbora Krejickova? Look at the forehead, when Krejickova and Zheng take the court. Eight-head"
Dude thinks he’s Brad Pitt. Lol But, I don’t think Brad Pitt would make a juvenile comment like that.
If Brad Pitt made a comment like that, his flunkies wouldn’t dare make it public. If anything it would be edited to have him saying something that would endear him more to his fans. It’s good to be the king
But if it's someone they want to keep around at TC, then I doubt this goes public. It didn't get released by accident (nothing happens by accident).
CALM DOWN???!!! How can you possibly expect people to stay calm when Jon Wertheim is not talking about tennis on TC?! I’m now on my was to this afternoon’s “Justice for Jon” protest in Golden Gate Park.
