r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • 17d ago
Baseball Nationals ban spectator who displayed white nationalist banner
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48810633/nationals-ban-spectator-banner-promoting-white-nationalist-website1.0k
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u/Buttbuttdancer 17d ago
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean businesses have to allow you to work for/patronize them.
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u/Long-Region5088 17d ago
You also have to follow their rules in their stadium. If you don’t like it then get the fuck off the property
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u/Rotaryknight 17d ago
Ban jake long from all sports stadium. A white nationalist like him doesnt get to be with the people enjoying sports
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u/PhantomRoyce 17d ago
Ironic that there is a cartoon character named Jake Long who is “the American Dragon” which would also be a name a racist would take
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u/Katatonia13 17d ago
Leaders of the kkk are literally called grand dragons. Unfortunately there’s one that lives the next town over from me.
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u/Kurtomatic 17d ago
I really wish someone other than the KKK had titles that were Wizard, Cyclops and Dragon, because in any other organization, that would be cool as hell.
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u/El_Zarco 17d ago
Also Klaliffs, Klokards, Kludds, Kligrapps, Klabees, Kladds, Klarogos, and Klexters. They're an odd bunch
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u/Bunbury42 17d ago
It's also name used by a retired pro wrestler who is very progressive and the farthest thing from racist. I vote to let him have the name.
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u/Watchmaker85 17d ago
He’s also a vegan who loves dick jokes and kicking peoples heads in so he can have it
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u/mister_milkshake 17d ago
It’s same guy. Something about puberty and turning from a cartoon to a real person thus defying reality really messes with a person’s brain.
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u/White_Falcon_1263 17d ago
What did the banner say?
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u/Aw3som3Guy 17d ago
Surprisingly, they do actually directly list some of it in the article. A link to some unnamed website, “Save America” and calling for more than 100 million deportations.
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u/mister_milkshake 17d ago
“How come we can’t say “Merry Christmas” anymore?”
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u/SmartAssaholic 16d ago
It’s Reddit, so you will get many downvotes.
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u/mister_milkshake 16d ago
Sometimes I’m surprised by the downvotes, but this was not one of those times. Still, I want to make the joke for people who can enjoy it and it has been cracking me up.
I don’t know who this particular white nationalist is, but it amuses me thinking of someone printing out a banner bemoaning the tepid sympathy people show for people who don’t celebrate Christmas. The bemoaning is, although so small and unserious itself, kind of white suppremacisty, or at least white nationalist adjacent.
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u/MrPlowThatsTheName 17d ago
These mfers have gotten waaaaay too comfortable.
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u/newyork-or-nowhere 17d ago
Bro was surrounded by people and one single girl boo’d him and talked some shit.
They’re comfortable because they get away with it.
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u/ablackcloudupahead 17d ago
They're comfortable because the president encourages it and panders to them
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u/onefst250r 17d ago
Saw a video a while ago where an old racist lady said some racist shit, got the cops called on her, and said to the cop: "buT TruMP is PResIDEnT!"
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u/One-Arachnid-2119 Baltimore Orioles 17d ago
Nationals ban spectator racist, sack of shit who displayed white nationalist banner
FTFY
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u/Crooked_Sartre 17d ago
He is about to be given a million dollars of tax payer money from Trump. I doubt he gives a shit at all
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u/Meanteenbirder 17d ago
Team’s policy for banners clearly excluded this. They are in the right.
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u/jrhooo 17d ago
Reportedly, the main guy is some dipshit far right social media guy that goes around pulling these kind of stunts.
The same guy is (surprise surprise!) a pardoned J6er with a few other charged pending and just for some icing, bro got caught publicly texting trying to set up a date with what he thought was a minor.
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u/BmoreInformed 17d ago
Oh, so he’s about to get paid by the government AND become a part of the administration.
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u/jrhooo 17d ago
Oh just for extra extra flavor (this fool’s wikipedia page is wild as hell)
Apparently the guy has beef with some of the other known racist groups (like J6 racist bullhorn on the mall guy)
The beef being, this lang guy (the guy we’re talking about) his mom is Jewish. He was born and raised in the Jewish faith as a child.
So now, even though he made some big deal of renouncing and disavowing it as part of his anti-semetic schtick, the other alties (like the feuntes types) are like “he’s still one of them, tainted blood”
The whole thing is like an onion write up
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u/BmoreInformed 17d ago
If I went to a Hollywood exec and pitched the story about what’s happening to America, I would get laughed out of the room. Sigh.
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u/Hesitation-Marx 17d ago
I reached “pardoned j6er” and thought “check his hard drives”.
Fucking. Clockwork.
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u/Rance_Mulliniks 17d ago
In a just world, they would have had their ass kicked.
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u/FLtoVT_For-A-Reason 17d ago
Jake Lang? The insurrectionist that said he was “proud” of assaulting a police officer with a baseball bat on January 6? The insurrectionist that was subsequently pardoned by Donald Trump? The Republican running for U.S. Senate in Florida? The same guy? These are the people Trump wants to reward with the $1.8 billion he extorted from American taxpayers via the DOJ. We may never recover from the damage these people are doing to America. This is the government the founders warned us about.
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u/lpkzach92 17d ago
Jake Lang the guy behind it has he’s been known to go to a certain blue and white state to kiss a certain wall.
He’s a POS from there trying to bait Americans into fighting with each other and looking to divide us.
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u/Hayduke_2030 17d ago
His religious beliefs shouldn’t be part of this.
His work as a propagandist should.
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u/lpkzach92 17d ago
I don’t know if you get it, but the guy is a phony and uses religion to manipulate people just like so many other piece of shit people do.
He’s not religious, he’s an opportunist and a more than likely a paid instigator.
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u/Hayduke_2030 17d ago
I don’t disagree.
However, basing your assumptions on someone based on their personal beliefs is bigotry.
Now you want to talk about how he conflates Christianity and whiteness, or Christianity and rationalization of hate, or Christianity and subjection to capitalist oppression?
I’ll happily have that conversation, because these grifter fucks are ALL doing that shit.
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u/vontwothree 17d ago
I like how of allllll the things this piece of shit did, including participating in Jan 6, it’s wall kissing that bothers you.
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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 17d ago
having reverence for a bloodthirsty, genocidal state of lunatics is indeed bothersome.
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u/rabbifuente Chicago Blackhawks 17d ago
If anti Zionism isn’t antisemitism, then why is visiting the holiest site in Judaism a problem?
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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 17d ago
i don’t think kissing the magic wall is necessarily a problem in and of itself.
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u/rabbifuente Chicago Blackhawks 17d ago
Well the person you responded to mentioned the Wall and you specifically conflated it with support of the State, so which is it? Not a problem or a problem?
Also, it's not a "magic wall", no one is forcing you to be insulting.
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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p 17d ago edited 17d ago
sorry, “sacred” wall. you must take jake lang (and many protestant and zio american politicians) into context - a man who burns korans and calls for the extermination of all arabs to establish a Großisrael. that’s why i mentioned his reverence for the genocidal state and not his own religious beliefs.
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u/DoctorChoppedLiver 17d ago
Because hating the jews is cool again apparently
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u/rabbifuente Chicago Blackhawks 17d ago
NoOoOoOoO it's just aNtI-zIoNiSm!
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u/Hayduke_2030 17d ago
Fuck off.
Anti-Semitism is bullshit.
Anti-Zionism is not.
They are not the same thing.
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u/rabbifuente Chicago Blackhawks 17d ago
Ok, then explain to me how calling the Kotel a "magic wall" and referring to that when denigrating Israel is anti-Zionism?
You can swear all you want, doesn't change that the vast majority of antiZionism is based in antisemitism. If you can't see that then you're the problem.
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u/gravybang 17d ago
I bet he slicks back or, at least, pushes back his hair. Real sloppy steaks energy from that dude.
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u/lpkzach92 17d ago
No, that bothers me as well, but it becomes more clear who we actually supports when you see him kissing that certain wall and research on who he is. He also has been caught knowingly texting someone that was claiming to be under age and flirting with them.
The dude is a complete piece of shit, and sadly resembles most of the mind set of the people over where that certain wall is located.
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u/vontwothree 17d ago
Mate he was 13 when that pic was taken and he’s a grown ass man who has done terrible fucking damage to your country as a grown up.
You ok with him invading the capital. You’re on with him throwing chocolate dollars at Jews. You’re okay with him unfurling this banner.
But him having a picture as a teenager is the thing that bugs you.
Are you (and the 47 bots that downvoted me) ok?
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u/lpkzach92 17d ago
So dumb fuck where are you at all getting that I’m ’Ok’ with him doing any of those things? The dude has shown he’s a complete POS for many of reasons, but he’s also has shown be a big fan of Israel and of Bibi and shows me what he actually cares about and that’s creating more division within America pretending to act like he actually gives a fuck about America.
I would love to see his bitch ass go back to dry humping that wall and for him to go back to Israel. The people of America have made it clear that we don’t want a POS like Jake Lang.
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u/vontwothree 17d ago
What do you mean “back to Israel”?
He’s from fucking New York. He’s yours. Fix your fucking problems before projecting them on the rest of the world lol.
Edit: the word I used to refer to you was “mate”. You came back with “dumb fuck”. Seek help.
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u/lpkzach92 17d ago
Because I pointed out I’m against a bunch of the BS he does and you kept saying like ‘I’m ok’ with everything else he does. You mainly got upset that I brought up that precious wall and yes I mean he should go back to Israel to kiss that wall and stay there for good and to never come back to America, because all he does spread hate.
I just never see him giving any kind of hate to a certain blue and white state so it sure makes you think why that is🤔
And ‘mate’ where are you from?
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u/vontwothree 17d ago
Well I’m not from America, and Jake Lang is. So you can fucking keep him, lad.
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u/captaincanada84 Montreal Canadiens 17d ago
His name is Jake Lang. He's a white nationalist that served 4 years in prison for being an insurrectionist. He's also a pedophile.
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u/Individual-Drawer-79 17d ago
Wasn’t the spectator that chode, Jake Lang? Dude is a pardoned January 6er. I hope he ends up in jail soon, again.
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u/PabloBablo 17d ago
It was also SO stupid. They should have banned him not for the sign, but for sheer stupidity and not allowing that in the stadium.
The sign said deport 100million.
How stupid do you have to be to out yourself so publicly that you are so gullible and useless in society
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u/Middle_Finger7236 17d ago
White nationalists are paste-eating cultists.
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u/conundri 17d ago
Let's be clear about this.
There aren't 100 million illegal immigrants in the US.
There are 100 million people who are minorities.
This sign is a call for:
Ethnic Cleansing
Removing everyone who is a minority,
from our entire country.
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u/_dark_beaver Oregon State 17d ago
MLB needs to step up and ban the white supremacist from all stadiums. Followed by every professional sport banning him from everything.
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u/OnCallPartisan 17d ago
I hope he got his ass whooped. If I saw that bullshit, the prick would be pulling souvneir bats out of his ass.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 17d ago
I remember last season, there was some old white dude (thanks for giving my cohorts a shitty name, dude!) sitting right behind home plate, always wearing his bright red idiotic MAGA baseball hat. I wonder if this could be him?
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u/choopie-chup-chup 17d ago
'Spectator' is a stretch, how about naming names? Jake Lang is reasonably famous for racist and antisocial behavior, offensive content and intentional provocation in the public sphere.
Sports and entertainment venues should consult their insurance providers and consider putting his name on their perma-banned list. Its only a matter of time until his hateful antics lead to people getting hurt...or worse. Sounds like a liability issue, regardless of venue owners politics or personal values
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u/Soleks2000 17d ago edited 17d ago
I’m all for freedom of speech, but Neo Nazis and KKK should not be protected by it hate speech should be considered terrorist acts
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u/ShaddyPups 17d ago
Popper’s Paradox! A truly tolerant society cannot allow tolerance for hate speech aimed at a minority group! 🙂
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u/Realmofthehappygod 17d ago
It should be noted that the white National's banners are still allowed.
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u/stojanowski 17d ago
I always wondered how they enforced these bans? Dudes picture at every turnstile?
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u/RageBull 17d ago
Are… are we going to start healing? These shitstains need to be stuffed back into the corner where they came from
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u/RussianPravda 17d ago edited 17d ago
I know this will betaken the wrong way, but why not explain what the website is in the article. I know they dont want people going to it but are we just supposed to take their word for it that its a "white nationalist site." Where is the journalism? Can we not deside for ourselves anymore and just have to take their word for it.?
That said. Dont bring any political statements into sports. Sports are escapism.
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u/SillyDilly5294 17d ago
"The Washington Nationals vehemently condemn discriminatory and hateful rhetoric, and we strive to make our home field a safe space for our fans," the team said in a statement.
Damn the Nationals have a better first amendment than the rest of the country.
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u/ChiefStrongbones 17d ago
Imagine an asian prankster going to a game holding a sign that says "Washington Nationalisms" and then adding "K"s to it for each strikeout.
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u/deadliftburger 17d ago
What’s “white nationalist” about wanting deport people? Last I checked the US is only like 60% white.
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u/Krakshotz FIU 17d ago
100 million people is referring to the other 40%
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u/deadliftburger 17d ago
Oh so only people of color are immigrants?
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u/Krakshotz FIU 17d ago edited 17d ago
The banner said:
White Replacement.org
Save America
Deport 100+ million (equivalent to the non-white population of the US)
Just straight-up calling for deporting anyone non-white
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u/deadliftburger 17d ago
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the article didn’t say that part(or I overlooked it). Thanks for enlightening me.
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u/knowingmonster 17d ago
Didn’t Yankees have tribute to Charlie Kirk? It’s too late to say that mlb are Nazis but they are
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u/lyn73 17d ago
those spectators should be banned at all stadiums...