Bangladesh factory bosses: Never mind those cracks, get to work!

People getting exploited is cool when I get entertained.

 

So ad hominems are a big thing in this thread, I see.

 

That's Baron's take.

He wants to lecture, and act like he's appalled by the working conditions in a country he couldn't find on a map, but when it comes to his own entertainment, he could give a fuck.

People are dying so you can buy a cheap shirt at Walmart!

Well, people are dying so your comic book action heroes can play out their soap opera story lines for you on TV.

You have no moral high ground. If you want some credibility on the issue, an least abandon your fanboi feelings for Vince and the WWE.

 

This took one random-assed turn. Sadly, there are no pro wrestlers of note from Bangladesh who can speak eloquently to both issues, so the closest you're going to get is The Great Khali.



Enjoy THAT interview.

 

George Harrison weeps.

 

Sorry. Selective outrage just gets old -- especially when it comes with moral smugness.

 

Eh. Everyone's selectively outraged or selectively blind about something. Multiple somethings, usually. X does it, yay! Y does it, boo! It's a sad commentary on human nature, but inconsistency is our trademark. That and finding new uses for bacon.

 

I don't think there's any purity test required to be outraged at hundreds dying in a building collapse that was avoidable.

 

If you'd bothered to read the list, you would have seen that the vast majority of the wrestlers on there died from something other than things caused by the WWE. 12 of the 24 died from natural causes, or diseases that anyone can have.

And of the other 12, one was murdered, two committed suicide, one died of post-op complications from an injury not sustained in a WWE ring (you do realize there's other companies out there, right?) and three of them either never worked for, or barely worked for WWE. So that's another 7.

And of the remaining five, two of them died more than a decade after working for WWE, and they were all reputedly using drugs. Two of them also were obese as well.

If you want to say that WWE should have taken a greater interest in their performers' post-WWE health much sooner, I would agree with you. But they didn't because McMahon had a lassez-faire (sp?) attitude which could have been changed two ways: 1 By unionization, which didn't happen, and/or 2. government intervention. They finally changed by the threat of government intervention. McMahon didn't want to have to raise his right hand before a committee like Roger Goodell had to do.

 

Natural causes, eh?

 

Same with that Philly doctor the right is frothing about. And Benghazi. Too bad, some other news got in the way. Deal with it.

 

You've just described the right's outrage over Benghazi.