Dave Portnoy not too long ago discovered himself on the receiving finish of some antisemitic slurs throughout a visit to Mississippi.
Discussing the incident whereas showing as a visitor on CBS Sunday Morning, the Barstool founder informed host Tony Dokoupil that he believes antisemitism has ballooned.
“Occasionally you get, ‘Hey, kike’ or ‘Jew’ or whatever. It’s every day now. Like, there’s a definitive shift in what’s going on,” Portnoy mentioned. “So yeah, now, for me being a Jewish person, you have to step up. You’re kind of someone people look up to in the Jewish community. You have to go, ‘Alright, this is not normal, ha-ha with the guys. People are coming up with real hate.'”
Dokoupil then requested Portnoy about Barstool’s success being “based on not being afraid to offend,” and whether or not he noticed a “connection between what you unleashed and what you now have to deal with?”
“No,” Portnoy responded. “Because I think Barstool, and myself, has always had a pretty good moral compass. So, we’ve never stood for hate or anything of that ilk.
“I imply, do I believe that feminists ought to complain a few Diet Coke can being skinny, and that one way or the other is, like, resulting in an consuming dysfunction by Diet Coke having a thin can? That I believe’s loopy. And there are issues that I believe folks get far too labored up [about]like he/she, verbs — like, loopy to me. Making jokes that you’re making an attempt to harm folks’s emotions and are based mostly in hate? That’s by no means flown with us.”
According to Yahoolast week, 20-year-old Patrick McClintock was identified by the police as the man who hurled coins and shouted antisemitic slurs at Portnoy outside of a Mississippi pizza shop, where Portnoy was shooting content. McClintock was later charged with disturbing the peace.
Tim Miller — a political consultant who was once a Republican, now identifies as an Independent, and is staunchly anti-Donald Trump — reacted to Portnoy’s CBS appearance.
“Let’s simply be sincere right here that is ridiculous. Nobody’s ever made a joke that harm anybody’s emotions at barstool?” Miller wrote in a post on X.
Other X users weighed in on the conversation, with many sharing the clip of Portnoy on CBS, citing some of the crazier things he’s said and done, including wishing missiles would hit Greta Thunberg’s aid flotillas bound for Gaza, making rape jokes, and being serially accused of sexual assault.
“HOLY FUCK, WHAT??? Portnoy and Barstool have made racist jokes, defended blackface, made sexist jokes, made rape jokes, joked concerning the ‘f**kability’ of feminine sports activities reporters, joked concerning the private appearances of their workers together with their weight, attractiveness and scent, and so forth and so forth,” one user wrote. “This sanctimonious clown and a few (not all) of his crew have made all types of jokes meant to harm peoples emotions. GTFOH.”
Another wrote: “Dave Portnoy is all the things embarrassing/despicable abt right-wing “masculinity.” He’s serially accused of sexual assault & referred to as on international terrorist state to kill Greta Thunberg. But *Dave Portnoy* is the actual sufferer as a result of a random teen was imply to him.”
A third user added: “Lots of folks in sports activities media noticed this dude and his kingdom of dorks saying the wildest racist and sexist shit for years, and cozied as much as them — pretending that he was simply one other sports activities persona. And now he will get to try to pull this bullshit act about civility.”
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