Twitter UNLOADS on ESPN Over the Robert Lee Debacle

ashley.rae | August 23, 2017
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In a story that seems perfect for a satire site -- except for the fact that it actually happened -- ESPN announced it would be pulling sports announcer Robert Lee from a game held in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia to avoid any confusion with Confederate General Robert E. Lee. ESPN has since defended their decision to pull Lee by saying they would be sparing Lee from “memes and jokes.”

The response came a little too late, though, as Twitter had already exploded with mockery aimed at the sports news network:

A few took the initiative to edit pictures of Lee superimposed over the actual Confederate general:

Some just had fun with the history:

Iowahawk wrote fiction based on the new infamous, notorious Lee:

Given the fact that Lee is an Asian man — and not a Confederate General — Michelle Malkin asserted feminists would next take offense to the Asian last name “Ho”:

Many were worried over the fate of Sara Lee products, given the unfortunate name:

Given the outrageous nature of booting an Asian man from a scheduled gig over his last name, who knows if Sara Lee products or the last name "Ho" is the next to go?

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