An organization is pulling sponsorship of a NASCAR driver over an “insensitive” remark. Also, that remark was reportedly made over 30 years ago and wasn’t even said by the driver, but rather his father:
Lilly Diabetes has pulled its sponsorship of Conor Daly’s No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing a racially insensitive remark made by the driver’s father in the 1980s that surfaced this week. https://t.co/TbJeb1jCu5
— RTV6 Indianapolis (@rtv6) August 25, 2018
From The Indy Channel:
In a statement, Daly said he admitted to using a racial slur for African-Americans during a radio interview in the early 1980s. Daly, who had just moved to the United States then, said the term had a different meaning and connotation in his native Ireland.
Daly said he was “mortified’” when he learned how the term was used in the United States and has never used it since then. Conor Daly, 26, wasn’t born when his father made the comment.
And that comment has cost somebody who wasn’t even born at the time a NASCAR sponsorship. Cue the facepalms:
I'll take 'Liberal Insanity' for a $1,000 Alex.
SMH
— Deb?2019-The Year The Wall Built (@debster7301) August 25, 2018
Wait… hold up.
So a guy loses sponsorship because of a bad remark a family member said 30 years ago and before he was even born?? What the shit is this?
We are living in criminally stupid times. https://t.co/PXlvY6j2ID
— hey baby it’s woke outside (@MatlockFletcher) August 25, 2018
This is crazy. Connor not even born. Why is he held responsible for what his dad said?
— Julie Gray (@juleanngray) August 25, 2018
Out: A five year old tweet gets you fired.
In: A forty year old remark by your dad costs you a sponsorship. https://t.co/SqtPzu6xzb
— Dan ?? (@danieltobin) August 25, 2018
Absolutely ridiculous ?
— Kim Whittaker (@Kimmerbim) August 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1033193786766176262
Are we really digging stuff up from 30 years ago and then holding the children responsible for their parents actions? Sounds like the work of millenials
— Bob Cook (@BobPerfectcolts) August 25, 2018
Amazing how quickly we've gone from holding people responsible for things they said when they were kids to holding kids responsible for things their parents said before they were born. https://t.co/szo06wxgiT
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) August 25, 2018
I got diabetes reading this.
— Anthony E. Ghazel (@anthony_ghazel) August 25, 2018
That's peak stupidity
— ougrad (@ougrad2001) August 25, 2018
This driver wasn’t even born yet
Give me a break, @LillyDiabetes https://t.co/s3aSloojLP
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 25, 2018
We live in a time where a vile racist gets a job with the New York Times and Hollywood A-listers demand that a guy who tweeted about pedophilia get his job back
Your actions here are insane, @LillyDiabetes
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 25, 2018
We do live in strange times.
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