Cenk Uygur
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ESPN Fires Curt Schilling For Anti-Trans Memes
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8:01Now PlayingFormer World Series champion Curt Schilling is now also a former ESPN baseball analyst. The network fired Schilling after he posted anti-trans memes online, disparaging an entire group of people. How long before he’s “Schilling” for Fox News? Cenk Uygur and Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“ESPN announced Wednesday night that it was firing former World Series champion Curt Schilling from his role as a baseball analyst after he posted several anti-transgender memes to his public Facebook profile.
“ESPN is an inclusive company,” ESPN said in a statement. “Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.”
The memes Schilling posted on Monday appeared to support a recent spate of legislation in various states requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with their birth sex. After facing intensive criticism online, Schilling doubled down in a lengthy public blog post calling his detractors people “just dying to be offended.”
After taking a day to assess the impact of his posts, ESPN dismissed Schilling.””*
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