{"id":1940780,"date":"2023-05-30T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scaros-take-a-look-at-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-whos-the-toxic-one-here\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:14:00","slug":"scaros-take-a-look-at-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-whos-the-toxic-one-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scaros-take-a-look-at-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-whos-the-toxic-one-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Curt Schilling&#8217;s &#8216;offensive&#8217; tweets &#8211; Who&#8217;s toxic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscaros-take-a-look-at-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-whos-the-toxic-one-here%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Boston Celtics Almost Made History, But Curt Schilling&#8217;s Tweets Steal the Show<\/h2>\n<p>The Boston Celtics almost became the first NBA team to win a best-of-seven playoff series after losing the first three games. They emerged from that 3-0 deficit to beat the Miami Heat the next three games before ultimately losing Monday in Game 7.<\/p>\n<p>No NBA team has ever won a series after trailing 3-0, and just one baseball team has ever done it: the 2004 Boston Red Sox against their most storied rivals, the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>That motivated NBC News sports reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/boston\/red-sox\/sad-state-curt-schilling-who-should-be-front-and-center-celtics-mount-comeback?cid=sm_npd_rsn_bos_fb_mn&#038;fbclid=IwAR3HgW_m01FlsR0TTLeDzjlntAh-kgXk2y3PIeAg3gisDcaA00px30G-HFU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Tomase<\/a> to muse \u2014 when the Celtics-Heat series was tied 3-3 \u2014 about what Game 7 might be like on Boston\u2019s home court, with veterans of that great Red Sox team on hand to rally the crowd. And then he went off on Curt Schilling, one of the best pitchers in baseball history, who won Game 6 that year for the Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I knew absolutely nothing about what Schilling has been doing with himself since retiring from baseball. According to Tomase, though, Schilling is a \u201ctoxic\u201d figure who spews \u201cracist\u201d sentiments on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt only takes five seconds\u201d on Schilling\u2019s Twitter page to realize what kind of right-wing monster he\u2019s become.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Having no clue about Schilling\u2019s political and ideological beliefs, I took Tomase up on the challenge and visited Schilling\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gehrig38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His profile picture is the emblem of the U.S. Marine Corps. Pinned atop his profile are the words of the Second Amendment. That alone is enough to \u201ctrigger\u201d some of today\u2019s woke into seeking coloring books and cuddle puppies as coping mechanisms.<\/p>\n<h3>What Did Schilling Tweet?<\/h3>\n<p>On Saturday, Schilling shared a TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gehrig38\/status\/1662372296927895554?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> (as a matter of principle I ignore all things TikTok, but I watched this one as research for this article) of American history scholar Carol Swain, a black woman, discussing how from abolition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a> it was Republicans who championed the causes of African-Americans and Democrats who tried to keep blacks from advancing socially, politically and economically. All of that is factually true.<\/p>\n<p>Next on Schilling\u2019s page is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sharrond62\/status\/1661632646961676289?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chart<\/a> showing how overwhelmingly superior teenage boys are to women in track and field events and thereby how it\u2019s unfair for male athletes to compete against females. Apparently, saying so is \u201ctoxic\u201d too.<\/p>\n<p>The next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gehrig38\/status\/1662359821817982978?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> shows photos of a white woman and her three black murderers, who shot her point-blank in an attempt to steal her car. Lest anyone think this is Schilling\u2019s way of saying \u201cblacks kill whites,\u201d it\u2019s not. It is Schilling pointing out that when blacks do kill whites, the media doesn\u2019t cover it. But when it\u2019s whites killing blacks, it\u2019s front-page 24\/7 news.<\/p>\n<p>The next item in line is factually true but misleading. It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse\/status\/1661743232668278787?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news story<\/a> about a man getting sentenced to community service for shooting an 84-year-old woman who was speaking against abortion. The clickbait headline doesn\u2019t explain that the man was also of an advanced age, 75, that the woman had knocked on his door and then gotten into an argument with his wife, and that the jury found that the gun had gone off accidentally.<\/p>\n<p>If Schilling posted that clickbait piece without reading beyond the misleading headline, he should\u2019ve been more careful. If he knew the headline didn\u2019t reflect the essence of the story but shared it anyway to perpetuate the narrative that the courts don\u2019t care about the rights of pro-lifers, then shame on him.<\/p>\n<p>The next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gehrig38\/status\/1662359407433244672?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> cites facts about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scaros-take-a-look-at-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-whos-the-toxic-one-here\/\" title=\"Check out Curt Schilling's 'offensive' tweets - Who's toxic?\">harmful side effects children experience<\/a> after being given puberty blockers (to prevent them from maturing naturally).<\/p>\n<p>After that comes a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gehrig38\/status\/1662178905631883264?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> in which Schilling calls Tomase \u201cspineless\u201d and \u201cweak-kneed,\u201d apparently in retaliation for Tomase\u2019s aforementioned article.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness to Tomase, I decided to dig further into Schilling\u2019s online presence. I came across an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/curt-schilling-8-of-his-most-controversial-statements-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> listing his eight most purportedly controversial tweets, including one that got him fired from ESPN in 2016: a meme showing a scantily clad man with the implication that he was going to share a restroom \u201cwith your daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although ESPN has every right as a private organization to require its employees to remain neutral on social and political issues, Schilling\u2019s objection to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-launches-gender-inclusive-bathroom-app\/\" title=\"Harvard Launches \u2018Gender Inclusive\u2019 Bathroom App\">gender-neutral bathrooms<\/a> is far from toxic \u2014 in fact, it\u2019s eminently reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Other tweets in that piece include Schilling demanding evidence of evolution, insisting that the Confederate flag is not synonymous with slavery, that even a tiny percentage of Muslims being extremists is troubling, and more about how the Democrats have historically harmed blacks, not helped them.<\/p>\n<h3>Who&#8217;s the Toxic One Here?<\/h3>\n<p>If we are to take that article as a reliable study of the most \u201coffensive\u201d tweets Schilling has posted, I think the real problem is not the tweets, but Tomase\u2019s reaction to them.<\/p>\n<p>I really don\u2019t know much about Tomase. His views do not make him a bad person, just a misguided one. And he\u2019s not alone. In today\u2019s society, we are taught that we must love transgenderism and abortion and hate guns and the Confederate flag. And there\u2019s absolutely no room for argument. Any questioning of that dogma makes you a \u201ctoxic\u201d person.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure if I dig deep enough I\u2019ll probably find statements Schilling has made with which I disagree, but it\u2019s obvious that I\u2019d have to do a lot of digging.<\/p>\n<p>Tomase calls him \u201ctruly tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But to think that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-county-orders-restaurants-to-keep-tvs-off-as-outdoor-dining-resumes-and-super-bowl-approaches\/\" title=\"Los Angeles County Orders Restaurants To Keep TVs Off As Outdoor Dining Resumes And Super Bowl Approaches\">sports fans<\/a> would turn against one of baseball\u2019s legends because he thinks that grown men shouldn\u2019t share a restroom with little girls, but would fawn over a different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanessa-bryant-kobe-bryant-estate-will-not-renew-partnership-with-nike\/\" title=\"Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant Estate Will Not Renew Partnership With Nike\">sports legend<\/a> who thinks that would be absolutely fine \u2014 that\u2019s what\u2019s truly tragic.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/scaros-take-look-curt-schillings-offensive-tweets-toxic-one\/\">Scaros: Take a Look at Curt Schilling&#8217;s &#8216;Offensive&#8217; Tweets &#8211; Who&#8217;s the Toxic One Here?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics came close to making history by winning a best-of-seven playoff series after losing the first three games. They won the next three games against the Miami Heat but lost in Game 7. 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