Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes
Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes
The host of the event had to issue an apology. Schneider was roundly booed during his performance, which ended much earlier than planned."
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- “Schneider is a known transphobe and anti-vaxxer”
- “a Canadian medical nonprofit”
- 🤨
- just how many red flags did they ignore?
Yeah, I think Schneider is a dipshit and a bigot, but this one is on the organizers. Were they expecting "makin' copieees" and shit?
Is this what happens when you choose from "entertainers" list by sorting by "price - low to high"? Is this really a surprise when you shop from the clearance rack?
Were these organizers looking at the list and saying "Hmm, Carrot Top is a bit too 'high brow' for our engagement. Who else do we have?"
They still could have taken five minutes to check him out on YouTube or just look him up on Wikipedia or something.
I wonder if this was a case of someone seeing a "big name" but being clueless about his history and thinking, "I recognize his name, must mean he's popular." Then they hired him without vetting because he had a recognizable name and they believed he was therefore popular and "cool". I mean, I know who Rob Schneider is because I've heard his name get thrown around a lot, but I had no idea he was a bigoted piece of shit because I've never (knowingly) watched any of his movies, nor do I keep up with celebrity gossip.
That said, it's really stupid to hire people without vetting them in this day and age because people have become so insane and brainless that you have no clue what they might say when they get up on stage; but 10 years ago I could see you being able to get away with not vetting celebrities. As such, the person/people who approved him might have been +10 years out of touch and/or lazy.
Trust me when I say that since this was in Saskatchewan, it's likely nobody checked because it never even crossed their minds that they should.
Truth, Saskatchewan tends to echo a lot of the transphobic legislation of the States. They passed a law requiring parents to give consent to use requested pronouns in schools. The place isn't what one would call "trans issue forward". I could totally see some ass backwards planning committee thinking it would be great before belatedly remembering the sort of people who attend these sorts of charity events actually tend to be fairly empathetic to their fellow humans...
Guess they learned that lesson the hard way then.
Yeah to be fair I love a lot of movies he’s in and reading about this makes me so disappointed. I’m sure there’s other actors and celebrities that I would also be disappointed about too.
Don’t sleep, Schneider is also:
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Noooo, I genuinely had no idea he was a pos. Man that sucks I liked his shitty movies and now I can't watch them for a nostalgic feel any more :( I am legit bummed.
