{"id":47786,"date":"2021-03-29T19:48:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47786"},"modified":"2021-04-05T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:48:51","slug":"this-is-where-the-you-sold-out-chants-would-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47786","title":{"rendered":"This is where the \u2018You Sold Out\u2019 chants would start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSRUJ9XQC-o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The funny thing is most people weren&#8217;t aware how close Greg Valentine and JYD were in real life, in spite of this horrifically racist promo from 1985<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">That is, if the WWE actually had live crowds anymore.\u00a0 The inspiration of this post comes from news that NBC\u2019s <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Peacock<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> streaming service, which acquired the entire WWE Network library and has formally liquidated it as of a few days ago, has <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2021\/03\/peacock-scrubs-racist-wwe-matches-from-new-wrestling-catalog.html\">begun going through their archives<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and scrubbing all sorts of perceived racist content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019ll be the first to admit that professional wrestling has a long history of having done some racist shit during its existence; but that can be said about absolutely everything that\u2019s been around as long as the business has.\u00a0 If Dr. Seuss, the freaking godfather of children\u2019s literature was found out to have made some racist illustrations way back in the day, it should be no surprise when Triple H had a feud with Booker T with some severely racist undertones not so way back in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Racist shit is all pretty bad stuff, but it happened, will always happen, and in spite of all the rah-rah rhetoric that\u2019s thrown around left and right these days, I unfortunately wouldn\u2019t wager a single penny that it\u2019s ever going to go away any time soon.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad to admit that, but would you rather I lie about how I feel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But one consistent opinion I have is that I am absolutely not a fan of any sort of revising of history, no matter what it is that\u2019s trying to be canceled, censored, hidden or deleted from the past.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45191\">confederate statues<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> or <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46981\">episodes of <em>Community<\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, I abhor the idea of anything that\u2019s been created being deleted because they\u2019re perceived as offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Personally, it\u2019s not so much it\u2019s because I\u2019m callous and fucked up and want racist shit to exist in plain sight of everyone, as much as I firmly believe that creators of these things need to own that this shit has happened, but most importantly, that they\u2019ve (hopefully) learned something over the passage of time, and that such opinions and thoughts might not be their actual beliefs today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The mistakes of the past are lessons for the present, of things that should be avoided, should be corrected, and should be worked towards improving upon, and not buried in the closet, stashed in a plastic Publix bag and hidden inside of an Amazon Prime cardboard box behind a larger box that was never unpacked from the last time you moved homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">NBC going through the WWE video library and trying to scrub out racist content is no exception to these opinions of mine, and I wince and look at NBC with disgust at their cowardly attempt to hide the past instead of trying to learn from it.\u00a0 When this stuff was all on the WWE Network, the WWE just slapped a disclaimer on all old content, succinctly explaining the content of these programs reflect their original air date\u2019s time and ideals, and that not everything is applicable to modern times.\u00a0 But NBC being so lily white homogenized, just would rather delete it from existence, to where, as Winston Churchill once said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Imagine one or more of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon\u2019s kids; if the WWE Network still existed when they\u2019re old enough to watch some of the old content, they\u2019d eventually come across the aforementioned HHH vs. Booker T feud.\u00a0 Daddy could easily get in front of the topic, and explain to his kids the implications of the storyline, that they were wrong, that he was just acting, but to not replicate that sort of behavior or thinking.\u00a0 It could be an actual teachable moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But in the Peacock world we\u2019re living in now, his kids will never see that daddy portrayed an arrogant racist in a storyline, and one day, someone will find a clip on YouTube of daddy saying \u201cyou people\u201d to a black man, and Hunter\u2019s kids will come to their own conclusions and realize that daddy is racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He\u2019s also into necrophilia when he was feuding with Kane, but for some reason, NBC seems to think that racist content is just a little bit more offensive, and his kids would be able to see that regardless of the platform but anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The point is, I really dislike that NBC is doing what they\u2019re doing, but frankly I\u2019m disappointed that the WWE liquidated their fantastic network in the first place to sell to NBC.\u00a0 I know coronavirus really put the hurt on the industry, due to the complete tanking of live events and all the revenue that comes with that, but this shit will pass, but what\u2019s done is done, and WWE sold their shit out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I don\u2019t know if they ever knew just how influential they were to the world we\u2019re in now, where damn near every media company has an app now, and as much as none of them really would want to admit it, almost everyone\u2019s eyes were on the WWE Network when they launched, and it was through them, most realized that they could survive and thrive on that model too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But now they\u2019re a tiny cog in a larger machine, that\u2019s also going through their hallowed libraries and censoring all of their old shit that they think might hurt someone\u2019s feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">You-Sold-Out!\u00a0 You-Sold-Out!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff The funny thing is most people weren&#8217;t aware how close Greg Valentine and JYD were in real life, in spite of this horrifically racist promo from 1985 That is, if the WWE actually had live crowds anymore.\u00a0 The inspiration of this post comes from news that NBC\u2019s Peacock streaming service, which acquired the entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is where the \u2018You Sold Out\u2019 chants would start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,129,83,89,69,54,55],"class_list":["post-47786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-hypocrisy","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47787,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47786\/revisions\/47787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}