Posted on 07/18/2018 10:52:56 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Racist, homophobic and misogynistic tweets that Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader sent in 2011 and 2012 surfaced as he pitched in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game at Nationals Park, turning his appearance into an embarrassing stain for Hader and a public-relations nightmare for Major League Baseball. After Hader surrendered a three-run homer in the eighth inning, several Twitter users — starting, it seems, with an account named MLB Insider Dinger — found and retweeted messages Hader sent as a 17-year-old. The tweets included numerous uses of the n-word and an allusion to “white power” next to an emoji of a closed fist. One tweet read only, “I hate gay people.” Another referenced wanting women only for sex, cooking and cleaning. “It’s just something that happened,” Hader, a former All-Met from Old Mill who grew up in Anne Arundel County, said after the game. “I was 17 years old. As a child, I was immature. I obviously said some things that were inexcusable. That doesn’t reflect on who I am as a person today. That’s just what it is.”
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What happens on the Internet, STAYS ON THE INTERNET!.................Don't ever forget that.....................
17 years old!!! Remember when Laura Ingraham was boycotted because she dared level criticism at a 17-year old “child” David Hogg??
He just needs to self-identify as a black Muslim lesbian.
After Hader surrendered a three-run homer in the eighth inning, several Twitter users -- starting, it seems, with an account named MLB Insider Dinger -- found and retweeted messages Hader sent as a 17-year-old.
If it were me, and it wound up costing me my job, I'd systematically hunt down and take care of the jackasses who dredged it back up. Thanks GuavaCheesePuff.
Words have gained tyrannical power.
So this just happens to come out when he is in the all star game? It just happens when he was actually playing in the game? How coincidental is that????
Unless you have amazing twitter-fu skills like Trump, stay off!
” Unless you have amazing twitter-fu skills like Trump, stay off!”
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wapo: let’s reprint what what your staff and editors said when they were 18. The news is this man has changed.
You said Russian. IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can take the boy out of Severna Park but you can’t take the Severna Park out of the boy. Just sayin’...
Not to be age discriminatory, but how did a 70+ guy become so good at Tweeting?
Twitter-fu is right.
Even at 17 he should have known better. But if he says he has changed I would take him at his word. What I find interesting is that we are supposed to go lightly on (in comparison to an full adult) a 17 year old if he murders somebody because of his stage of brain development but hang him from the yard-arm if stuff like this surfaces.
I am not a homophobe, as "phobia" describes an "unfounded or irrational fear." My revulsion to perverts is as natural as a man and a woman creating a family. Fear never enters the equation.
Its good there are so many without sin who can cast the first stones. Best wishes to him to overcome this. These are usually professional death penalties these days.
And whatever happened to Joy Reid?
Didn’t she post racist - homophobic blog posts?
Nothing happened?
She must be a liberal then...
It was probably set up by an angry Leftist.
Wonder what most of the professionals in the NBA were talking about when they were 17.....
Very true, the progressive/communists are very quick to condemn any manner of transgressions at the alter of thought control.
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