76ers beat writer out at PhillyVoice after ripping team’s Israel tweet
October 9, 2023
76ers beat writer out at PhillyVoice after ripping team’s Israel tweet
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Benjamin Netanyahu is from Philly so I guess this is his home team.
one month in the job lol
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I don’t see how this dude expected it to go anywhere else lol
> Frank just joined the Sixers beat last month after writer Kyle Neubeck left PhillyVoice for All-City’s PHLY startup. Frank has since deleted his account on X (formerly Twitter).
oof
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Really weird how when NBA players/journalists call out China it’s a “brave” stance on this subreddit, but criticizing the country that the entire league put out a message of support for makes you the subject of ridicule. Clearly it’s not a “smart” comment to make if you don’t wanna risk your job, but it’s crazy how the response is calling him a moron instead of asking why something this tame gets you canned immediately.
Can’t be too surprised when a guy who’s been there for a month (idk how journalist jobs work for this but possibly still on a trial period as well) replies to the team he is reporting on and calls something they posted stupid
The comments in this thread are shocking. If he got fired for saying the same thing about China , there will be outrage from the same people. They acting like supporting Palestine is a crime. Bunch of idiots.
No person should be fired for expressing their POV on a political conflict. I hope he sues them.
I just find it kind of difficult to state these things after seeing those horrific scenes at the music festival and afterwards. I’ve seen videos of families crammed together scared shitless of being shot. I’ve also seen the aftermath of bombing in the Gaza strip. Surely he would have expected this given the horrific visuals going around right now
Excited to hear Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Ron DeSantis, and all the other right wing cancel culture warriors condemn this egregious example of cancel culture.
I wonder what part of the statement he didn’t like?
Mourning the lives lost? That the lives were innocent? Hamas being terrorists?
The guy’s in idiot and deserves what he got.
Calling it ripping is such overkill
I’m in the middle about this. The 76er post was only about the atrocities, not picking sides BUT where was this energy when Israelis were doing the same? This wasn’t the first act of violence by one side…
35 states have bds laws what a fucking joke
Hell of a career with The Sixers
Trash thread – just like all the threads where r/nba pretends to have an educated opinion about world affairs
Based
AIPAC in the NBA
Definitely not surprised to see who it is. He’s been around a long time but never had a position this high profile so he usually gets away with saying what he wants.
I agree with standing with Palestine and these nba tweets are dumb but dude fumbled big time when he could’ve just…not tweeted that from him work account.
He should have criticized China instead
Why are the philadelphia 76ers as an organization making a statement on this geopolitical situation to begin with? I get that their owner is Jewish, but then he should make a statement in his capacity as a private citizen! I don’t know if it is citizens united, or this idea of corporate ESG responsibility, but something has changed in the last few years that these corporate entities with no real ties to geopolitical events feel the need to chime in.
Free Palestine and this reporter should never have lost his job for espousing his political beliefs. That is, unless you think the sixers should also be reprimanded
Maybe don’t reply to your boss’s post mourning the death of hundreds of innocent civilians with “This sucks.” Or at least not on your first month on the job
Honestly r/NBA might have the worst political views on all or reddit. And that’s saying something lol
You’re only allowed to criticize China
Jackson Frank is a King! Solidarity with Palestine!
Feel bad for Jackson because I think he’s good at what he does, I don’t like seeing…well, most people, out of a job; I think he’ll get back on his feet. But his tweet is absolutely a fireable offense. You’re not a twitter critic anymore. Your audience shifts and you have to shift your temperament with that.
It is really not hard to both be pro-Palestine or at least understand their gripe and unequivocally denounce what occurred over the weekend at the same time. It is actually extremely easy to do so and anyone who does not for me is telling on themselves. Are you truly anti-Zionist or are you an antisemite that hides behind “Zionism” uncritically as basically an empty catch-all moniker as a cover for hatred. It’s almost like conservatives using the word “groomer” to me. It’s a convenient way to duck criticism for what seems to me to be unfettered antisemitism.
Tbh this has shown me how uninformed a lot of people are about what freedom of speech actually means.
This sub is trash lmao
Shitting where you eat is just stupid.
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Damn…he was my favorite sixers writer too.
Nice lol
I don’t think he should’ve been fired but you have to be smarter than that
Idk why all these blue check people think they have to tweet there opinion on this very complex topic like it matters anyways
Yet it’s the right being canceled 🙄
During the Covid season, Doc Rivers called him out for laying down in bed during a Zoom post game session:
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Benjamin Netanyahu is from Philly so I guess this is his home team.
one month in the job lol
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I don’t see how this dude expected it to go anywhere else lol
> Frank just joined the Sixers beat last month after writer Kyle Neubeck left PhillyVoice for All-City’s PHLY startup. Frank has since deleted his account on X (formerly Twitter).
oof
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Really weird how when NBA players/journalists call out China it’s a “brave” stance on this subreddit, but criticizing the country that the entire league put out a message of support for makes you the subject of ridicule. Clearly it’s not a “smart” comment to make if you don’t wanna risk your job, but it’s crazy how the response is calling him a moron instead of asking why something this tame gets you canned immediately.
Can’t be too surprised when a guy who’s been there for a month (idk how journalist jobs work for this but possibly still on a trial period as well) replies to the team he is reporting on and calls something they posted stupid
The comments in this thread are shocking. If he got fired for saying the same thing about China , there will be outrage from the same people. They acting like supporting Palestine is a crime. Bunch of idiots.
No person should be fired for expressing their POV on a political conflict. I hope he sues them.
I just find it kind of difficult to state these things after seeing those horrific scenes at the music festival and afterwards. I’ve seen videos of families crammed together scared shitless of being shot. I’ve also seen the aftermath of bombing in the Gaza strip. Surely he would have expected this given the horrific visuals going around right now
Excited to hear Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Ron DeSantis, and all the other right wing cancel culture warriors condemn this egregious example of cancel culture.
I wonder what part of the statement he didn’t like?
Mourning the lives lost? That the lives were innocent? Hamas being terrorists?
The guy’s in idiot and deserves what he got.
Calling it ripping is such overkill
I’m in the middle about this. The 76er post was only about the atrocities, not picking sides BUT where was this energy when Israelis were doing the same? This wasn’t the first act of violence by one side…
35 states have bds laws what a fucking joke
Hell of a career with The Sixers
Trash thread – just like all the threads where r/nba pretends to have an educated opinion about world affairs
Based
AIPAC in the NBA
Definitely not surprised to see who it is. He’s been around a long time but never had a position this high profile so he usually gets away with saying what he wants.
I agree with standing with Palestine and these nba tweets are dumb but dude fumbled big time when he could’ve just…not tweeted that from him work account.
He should have criticized China instead
Why are the philadelphia 76ers as an organization making a statement on this geopolitical situation to begin with? I get that their owner is Jewish, but then he should make a statement in his capacity as a private citizen! I don’t know if it is citizens united, or this idea of corporate ESG responsibility, but something has changed in the last few years that these corporate entities with no real ties to geopolitical events feel the need to chime in.
Free Palestine and this reporter should never have lost his job for espousing his political beliefs. That is, unless you think the sixers should also be reprimanded
Maybe don’t reply to your boss’s post mourning the death of hundreds of innocent civilians with “This sucks.” Or at least not on your first month on the job
Honestly r/NBA might have the worst political views on all or reddit. And that’s saying something lol
You’re only allowed to criticize China
Jackson Frank is a King! Solidarity with Palestine!
Feel bad for Jackson because I think he’s good at what he does, I don’t like seeing…well, most people, out of a job; I think he’ll get back on his feet. But his tweet is absolutely a fireable offense. You’re not a twitter critic anymore. Your audience shifts and you have to shift your temperament with that.
It is really not hard to both be pro-Palestine or at least understand their gripe and unequivocally denounce what occurred over the weekend at the same time. It is actually extremely easy to do so and anyone who does not for me is telling on themselves. Are you truly anti-Zionist or are you an antisemite that hides behind “Zionism” uncritically as basically an empty catch-all moniker as a cover for hatred. It’s almost like conservatives using the word “groomer” to me. It’s a convenient way to duck criticism for what seems to me to be unfettered antisemitism.
Tbh this has shown me how uninformed a lot of people are about what freedom of speech actually means.
This sub is trash lmao
Shitting where you eat is just stupid.
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Damn…he was my favorite sixers writer too.
Nice lol
I don’t think he should’ve been fired but you have to be smarter than that
Idk why all these blue check people think they have to tweet there opinion on this very complex topic like it matters anyways
Yet it’s the right being canceled 🙄
During the Covid season, Doc Rivers called him out for laying down in bed during a Zoom post game session:
https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/doc-rivers-reporter-questions-from-nbed-01eytrgjxj1j
It’s kinda fucked up to fire someone for saying “I don’t think genocide is a good thing”
It’s unfortunate he can’t show concern for the genocide happening in Palestine. No one wins in a war. A lot of innocents are dying.