[New York Rangers] Statement
twitter.com/nyrangers/status/1270381611163570...Posted Jun 9, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC
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What a pathetic statement. Fucking embarrassing.
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I'm so disappointed in this team, even if it was mostly Dolan's doing. My loyalty is definitely going to take many steps back as a result.
Two weeks for this BS? After what happened to K'Andre? This is messed up
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The struggle to 'separate art from the artist' is an impossible ask sometimes. I've felt forced to rethink my financial support of these out of touch billionaire owners who do so much more harm than good in society.
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You mean out-of-touch, old-school thinking, probably intolerant, old white men who only see the $$$ and nothing else? (not trying to group every single person out there, of course, some billionaires are genuinely good people.)
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not really tbh. no one makes a billion dollars, they take a billion dollars.
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As you question your loyalty, I'm just gonna throw this in here to plug another, more successful, local team (also just proud of the team and think it's worth a read):
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Look, it acts like it helps to contribute to teams when it’s just a fan.
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This is just sad.
You took the time to go through my comment history, and this is the best chirp you can come up with? On a jokey sports comment no less?
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One sentence per week. Must’ve taken a lot of patience crafting the perfect statement.
Idk where it went tho
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Their PR head didn't have auto-save on and the computer crashed. What they originally wrote could've been the beginning of the next great American novel and the impetus for watershed change in this country. Now we're left with this trash piece and wondering what could have been.
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James Dolan is truly a renaissance man.
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The dog ate my homework.
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My expectations couldn’t have been lower and I’m still disappointed. Embarrassing for a franchise of this size to be this bad at this, even more so right on the heels of what happened to K’Andre.
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The New York Rangers have used more words to promote the “uncensored” podcast of a player that has been previously suspended for using what Larry Brooks describes as “race-based language.”
Let that sink in.
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In their defense, I think they have done basically everything as wrong as possible in the last month, but I don’t think this is a fair example. The podcast tweet was probably done by just the social person and the team told them to delete it, whereas this comes from the team.
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While that’s right, I still don’t really think that excuses it given that people who run the social media accounts of multi-million dollar organizations are well paid professionals not the unpaid interns they are stereotyped as (not saying that what you’re saying FYI). But you are right they aren’t from the exact same source messenger
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As a content writer, I can definitely see why this took 2 weeks to come up with.
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what a masterpiece at saying exactly none of the following words: 'black' 'george' 'floyd' 'protest' 'action' 'here's what we plan on doing' 'blacklivesmatter' 'blm' 'addressing organisational issues' 'doing better' 'training on how to be better'
somehow they managed to do even worse than a cookie cutter PR statement, and that requires skills.
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it's really hard to put forward an anti-racism message that is more pathetic than just saying nothing, but they did it
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'Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world ... But unlike a team of supervillains, they cant be halted with a punch or a zap. The only way to destroy them is to expose them - to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are' Stan Lee in 1968
Stan put that in a comic book during a time when he was truly risking his material well being and probably earned some death threats from the chuds. Compare that bit of bravery to the weak dishwater some of these teams have put out in 2020. Silence is complicity and this is little better than silence.
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Hockey rivalry aside... What the hell man
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Straight clownery.
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The phrase "day late and a dollar short" just popped into my head for some reason. I wonder why?
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Damn I forgot they hadn’t even put one out yet. After reading it I wish they hadn’t.
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I really hate that I'm a rangers fan. Fuck dolan so fucking much. Fuck that guy.
Fiyuck. Thiyat. Giyuy.
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It's the slow kid in the class that hands the assignment in late and does a really half-assed job.
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Oof ouch owie, that's a weak statement...
I mean, how could your statement be worse than Ottawa's, which was essentially "Racism is bad, m'kay?"
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Clown-ass ownership. Fuck Dolan.
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the bar is in hell and this statement still stumbles over it
I know this isn't really on the teams but if this is the best you can put out, you're not much better off than if you said nothing at all
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finally, someone fucked up their statement worse than ours
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Right? Reading this gave me the strangest feeling of disgust and relief at the same time lol.
At least we have Anders and he's not going anywhere :)
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Guys guys Dolan really needed to practice for the next JD and the Straight Shot concert which is why it took so long for them to put out the statement.
Fuck Dolan
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FWIW, this is the exact same statement/image the Knicks put out.
Dolan can go kick rocks. I don't blame the teams at all for the pathetic excuse of a statement after two weeks of not saying anything.
I get faulting him for such a shitty statement but I’m not at all concerned with it being the same as the Knicks. It’s the same owners, many of the same management, and in the same location. It makes sense the statement would be the same when it’s one company.
I'm not faulting them at all for having the same statements.