After anti-gay and Racist remarks, should Duck Dynasty be cancelled?

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outlawauron said:

curl-6 said:

If an employee says something that could detrimentally impact the bottom line of their company, said company has every right to pull the plug. It's called running a business.

This would be similar to Nintendo cancelling all sales of Mario because one of the developers said something controverisal. That isn't how you run a business.

That's not even close to the same thing.  It would only be similar if Nintendo distanced themselves from the actual developer by either firing them or suspending them.  This would happen in almost any workplace. 

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If Mario went on a rant that offended a wide swath of people, and Nintendo decided to distance themselves from him by replacing him with Luigi.  They never cancelled DD, they just suspended the guy that was running his mouth.  This is not unusual (see: Paula Dean).