Well there you have it, Curt Schilling finally got himself fired by ESPN.
After a series of controversial social media posts that included a questionable view on Muslims as well as comments that made many do a double-take it was a Facebook image post and subsequent followup that finally got the former MLB pitcher canned by the four-letter network.
So what was the post? First it was an image that disparaged transgender people followed by a comment that further disparaged a group of people who already get their fair share of shit from society.
Schilling followed the picture with this:
“A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.”
ESPN also released the following statement in the wake of firing Schilling:
ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.
I’m not going to go off and call Schilling ‘racist’, a ‘bigot’ or ‘unloving’ as the meme suggest.
Is Schilling ‘narrow-minded’ and ‘judgmental’ though?
Yeah probably…
To think any transgender person is using a bathroom (whether it be a men’s or women’s) for the sole purpose of scoping out someone relieving themselves in a stall sounds pretty judgmental to me. It’s also that same type of narrow-minded thinking that prevents individuals from being comfortable enough to live their life in a way that’s true to themselves.
Curt Schilling can say whatever the hell he feels on his own social media pages. Quite frankly I’m sure the majority of the LGBT community couldn’t give two shits what he thinks. ESPN however has the right not to have their network represented by some judgmental, narrow-minded fool.
Whoops… it looks like I’m just another victim of some meme’s anecdotal evidence.
