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KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Why?

A lot of people wanted a fun celebrity. They instead got this guy.

Mike Richards, who was named the new host of “Jeopardy!” last week, is abruptly leaving the role as the beloved game show after a report this week resurfaced offensive and sexist comments he made on a podcast several years ago.

Mr. Richards, who as the show’s executive producer helped oversee the search for Alex Trebek’s replacement — before he himself was named to the position — said on Friday in a staff memo that the controversy had made “clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show.”

“As such, I will be stepping down as host effective immediately,” Mr. Richards wrote.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, which produces and distributes “Jeopardy!”, had announced Mr. Richards’s new role with great fanfare, calling him a “great talent.”

But a report in The Ringer this week unearthed past offensive comments made by Mr. Richards on a podcast that led to denunciations from critics including the Anti-Defamation League.

No I was disappointed we didn't get a celebrity host. Did you read the article about long article on him, the process, and the complaints?

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2021/8/18/ … t-comments

This affects you. If you read the article you will see that the now canceled host used to be executive producer and had plans to take the show into a new direction.

Disclaimer that I am not a huge Jeopardy fanatic.

Growing pains for many industries, people realizing that certain behaviors in the workplace are probably unprofessional and belong in the past. The guy had multiple lawsuits against him? How much trawling through archives does that dirt really require? We know beyond allegedlies that some of the stuff he said was kind of gross even for the year. What is the boundary where too little to matter becomes significant enough to acknowledge, really?

Maybe he's not Bill Cosby, but do we need a jerk as a host when there are other options?

Fans made a big deal about various candidates they wanted, and there were candidates who wanted it. Then this guy gets promoted from within. It's like that meme of Obama putting a medal on Obama.

Point of trivia, Mayo Clinic says there is no evidence that growing hurts. That they may be psychological or linked to a lower pain threshold.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Disclaimer that I am not a huge Jeopardy fanatic.

Growing pains for many industries, people realizing that certain behaviors in the workplace are probably unprofessional and belong in the past. The guy had multiple lawsuits against him? How much trawling through archives does that dirt really require? We know beyond allegedlies that some of the stuff he said was kind of gross even for the year. What is the boundary where too little to matter becomes significant enough to acknowledge, really?

Maybe he's not Bill Cosby, but do we need a jerk as a host when there are other options?

Fans made a big deal about various candidates they wanted, and there were candidates who wanted it. Then this guy gets promoted from within. It's like that meme of Obama putting a medal on Obama.

Point of trivia, Mayo Clinic says there is no evidence that growing hurts. That they may be psychological or linked to a lower pain threshold.

Everyone I explained the hiring process to also agreed that it was a screwed up system. It's really hard to find anyone excited about the guy considering there were so many celebrities to pick from.

There's two issues with what he said. The first issue is that he was putting that stuff out there with his name attached to it as a professional project. He bought a domain to host the podcast. It's not like he was making poor jokes at a private dinner. Rarely does anyone get cancelled because of somebody leaking audio from a dinner party. The second issue is that his job is basically to read off questions, joke with the guest, and have a good time. He has to deal with fat people, slutty people, Jews, etc. as part of his job. It's not like he is an artillery officer or some other role where nobody sees him.

Finally, cancelling average people because they said something bad at a Walgreens pharmacy is definitely wrong. Media people getting cancelled for doing dumb stuff in the media is very much "dying by the sword". I can be awful online anonymously but I am total pussy cat 🐈😺 at work and on Facebook where things actually matter.

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Just think Mac, this could be you!

Maybe when the Omega variant of COVID combines with a bad batch of Indian COVID vaccines I will finally get my chance to become the epic bat man I was always meant to be.

This is why you need to concealed carry. You never know when some guy in a truck will give you the opportunity to end a life.

I ran across this article about a tiki bar reopening and also clicked on some of the embedded links about how the history of such things are "problematic". While I'm liable to agree with the various points made about colonialism, it seems a very niche and weird thing to devote time to and differentiate between "tropical drinks" and "tiki drinks". Decent rage-read, though.

Europe should remain European like Japan should remain Japanese. North America, South America, Australia, and New Zealand should sort of be "for everyone".

The whole debate about cultural appropriation is more complex than young people who read the definition in their sociology class thinks. It's also more complex than the people who live on Fox News think too.

I like the idea of people finding cultural things from other groups, and then modifying or improving upon them. Tale as old as time. When cultural appropriation takes place added with the exclusion of the original maker's group then it is problematic. Like white teens liking rap music but hating black people is bad cultural appropriation. A white guy discovering Buddhism and converting is cool.

Being angry about white people going nuts over Taco Tuesday is silly. White people opening a taco place and then mistreating the Mexicans who come in is problematic.

I think the vast majority of people aren't bothered by cultural appropriation anyhow. Kids love to have diversity events where they get to bring platters of food to introduce people to their ancestor's food for instance. Most normal people like other people going nuts for their stuff.

You can do better than that, dilbert.