ESPN has proven that the campaign to erase our history is driven by mass hysteria

Aug 24, 2017 by Jill

by Matt Walsh, The Blaze:

By now you’ve likely heard that ESPN pulled an Asian-American announcer from their University of Virginia football broadcast because his name is Robert Lee.

They were worried that people might be offended because announcer Robert Lee shares a name with Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Perhaps some viewers may have even confused the two. Sure, most of us can tell them apart because the Asian one is Asian, and also alive, but you never know. The other day I met a guy named Alex and I immediately assumed that I was talking to the ancient Greek conqueror Alexander the Great. I must say he looked pretty good for being 2,300 years old. Anyway, he cleared up the confusion, and I paid for my pizza. The point is that these kinds of mistakes happen. I mean, they only happen if you’re insane or you have an IQ of negative 12, but they happen.

Incidentally, I couldn’t help but notice that the president of ESPN is named John Skipper. As you know, the Postmaster General of the Confederate government was named John Reagan. I think it goes without saying that John Skipper must step down effective immediately, lest his first name bring back traumatic memories of the dastardly John Reagan and his traitorous postal service. In fact, it has just come to my attention (because I Googled it) that the CEO of Disney, ESPN’s parent company, is named Robert A. Iger. He not only has the same first name as Robert E. Lee, but he also uses his middle initial, just as Lee did, and his initial is only four letters removed from Lee’s. Is it a coincidence that four is also the number of states that seceded from the Union in the spring and fall of 1861? The similarities are uncanny and extremely offensive. Robert A. Iger should be ashamed. The wounds of the Civil War can never heal until he steps down and leaves the country forever.

I’m trying to make a joke about this but it doesn’t really work, does it? Parodying something requires taking it to its most absurd extreme. But reality has already reached the most absurd extreme.

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