While it's a criticism fuel for valid reflection, the situations are still different because one is using a word that carries prejudice, the other is praising someone responsible for the mass persecution and torture of Jews, black people, gays... If Connor were praising some well known figure for the persecution of black people, then the backlash should be as reprehensible as this one.
It's curious though because I wonder how it'd be treated... McGregor had other despicable comments as well about Brazil in his Jose Aldo fight, saying if it were in other centuries, he'd be invading the favelas and killing them, and putting them to work... Which is a total lack of any thought to the suffering of Africans and Natives, the massacre that was the colonialism... Or Connor calling Khabib a Muslim rat, which is a word that carries heavy lack of consideration for how discriminated Muslims are around the world, and the connection the muslims feel to being a Muslim, which to them, is beyond a religion, but a connection and sense of community, of a meaningful bond between Muslims around the world...
Still, it can be argued, whether it's fair or not, idk, that it is still different from praising a figure that is a prolific one in the extermination of ethnicities... But I wonder how it'd be treated if there was a known ruthless past person who was responsible for the lowest bar on treatment of black people... I think the backlash, or at least I hope so, would be as strong and totally unacceptable as this one is... I think it would be, at least I like to believe it would be...
No matter the ethnicity, advocating for the thought of the genocide of human lives is worth of being fired from the UFC imo... Anyone that claims the Holocaust wasn't a problem or that it was fabricated, or taking away the historical suffering of Jewish, is worth to be fired from the job in serious places... As well as any ethnicity.
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