RolStoppable said:
burninmylight said:
I'm glad that you went back and edited your email after learning more about the situation, but I'm still going to reply to a part of it while acknowledging your awareness of newfound information. It's one thing for someone, say a young adult, to have things they said as an adolescent/teenager/late teens or early 20s adult come to light, when their collection of life experiences can be chalked up to a lack of maturity, experience and worldly knowledge. You yourself have made a thread about how you were once racist not because you just plain hate black and brown people illogically, but because your life experiences growing up in Germany gave you a poor perception of such people via the media, and you hadn't really met anyone in real life to give you reason to reassess that until the Internet. Jon Gruden is a grown ass man in the 58th year of his life who has worked with women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community for decades. He has worked in and covered an organization where the primary work force consist of colored people that have made hims tens of millions of dollars. A decade ago, he was a grown ass 48-year-old man, not some knuckleheaded teen with his first Twitter account. He has had plenty of years on this Earth to figure out who he is and what he stands for and believes in. If that's the kind of things he says off-mic, not just one time in a moment of weakness but consciously over the course of years, then that's who he is. It's not someone found recordings of his drunk ramblings; these are emails that he had to consciously take the time to type and press Send. Typing an email should be given even more weight than shooting from the cuff with your mouth. TL:DR - You can sum it up in two old, but timeless phrases: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks", and "Character is who you are in the dark" |
It's not easy to piece things together from the initial writeups about this story. When it was just that one e-mail, Gruden could provide an excuse of being angry because of a lockout in the NFL, so with some goodwill he could be given the benefit of the doubt of having just a bad day and weak moment. But with more information surfacing, that benefit had to be revoked without question. Regardless, your point is correct; typing an e-mail is on a whole nother level than an outburst on Twitter or drunk ramblings. That not more tidbits of Gruden's e-mails have been made public might just be the result of him resigning. I am sure he knows the kinds of things he said and how often he did it, so his decision to resign can be seen as an act of self-defense, in the sense of keeping things under wraps instead of provoking a situation where all the beans get spilled until he eventually has to resign anyway. I am not German nor did I grow up in Germany, by the way. |
