Media Why doesn't Sean Strickland get the same moral backlash as Colby and McGregor

[XNYHCX]

What's so bad about making fun of a religion? Should be encouraged IMO

Why mock another's dearly held convictions? As adults, why mock at all, but as humans why what's most dear to another?

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I think he plays his arrogant bro character closer to what Sherdog likes.

 

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Three very different profiles.
Conor is a coke fueled narcissistic sociopath who believes he is rich enough to get away with anything and acts accordingly.
Colby is antagonizing to the extreme with his competitors, critics and haters. He turns every exchange into a personnal feud.
Strickland is not really attacking people personnally, he is just trying to say edgy political shit to get attention.

 

[Hollywood Jack]

It's the very first segment.

He talks about Khabib's wife and religion openly.

McGregor caught a lot of flack because of his his comments against Poirier's wife. (No one said anything when he was trashing RDA's family but that's another convention)

People said Masdival's actions were justified against Colby because Colby "brought family into it" by calling Masdival a bad father and saying he didn't pay his child support.

Sean says some outlandish things and he seems to fly under the radar. Sherdog glazed over the whole "neo nazi phase of my life." But he's openly stroking flames against Pat/Rose and now he's being blatantly xenophobic towards Khabib.

Is it because he's a nobody and people just don't talk about him?

I remember when Sherdog came to Sean's defense when Orlando damn there broke his arm and said he did it "to teach him some respect." With hindsight, Orlando was right in my book.

But to the general Sherverse how is Sean's comments perceived?

He's a boring gatekeeper. Not as many people are paying attention in the first place. I agree that Orlando doing that to him is looking better by the minute... Maybe he did something behind the scenes that explains it.

 

[Bagatur]

because he has no fans and nobody gives a shit about him

 

[BoomStronk]

Conman was doing is specifically to get under his OPPONENT's skin the dirtiest, most classless way he could. Strickland isn't fighting Khabib and never will, so why would anyone care as much about what a rando is saying about someone as opposed to a superstar that is actually going to fight the person they are talking shit to on a much bigger stage?

Backwards logic

If you have an obvious reason to say something offensive, that's much less impactful than saying something offensive when you have no reason to.

There's no motive for Strickland comments, so they can't be dismissed as simply being attempts to get under someones skin.

 

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Strickland is not really attacking people personnally, he is just trying to say edgy political shit to get attention.

He told Khabib his wife fakes it? How much more personal can you get. That's more personal than anything colby and on the same level Conor said.

 

[Rio Ferdinand]

If he didn't talk shit nobody would watch his fights.

He talks like Michael Chandler fights. <45>

 

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He told Khabib his wife fakes it? How much more personal can you get. That's more personal than anything colby and on the same level Conor said.

Come on, it's not 10% of what Conor said and Colby straight up called Khabib a sheepfucker. It's not even an attack on Khabib's wife, if you read properly.
It was cringey, low and uncalled for but def not Conor or even Colby's level.
But I guess Strickland hits a nerve because unlike for Conor and Colby, everyone knows there is probably some truth in what he says.

 

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Come on, it's not 10% of what Conor said and Colby straight up called Khabib a sheepfucker. It's not even an attack on Khabib's wife, if you read properly.
It was cringey, low and uncalled for but def not Conor or even Colby's level.
But I guess Strickland hits a nerve because unlike for Conor and Colby, everyone knows there is probably some truth in what he says.

Sean?

 

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Sean?

Hi!

 

[gluehuffer1776]

Hi!

hey

 

[Qays Stetkevich]

Backwards logic

If you have an obvious reason to say something offensive, that's much less impactful than saying something offensive when you have no reason to.

There's no motive for Strickland comments, so they can't be dismissed as simply being attempts to get under someones skin.

Relevance is not "backwards logic". Strickland isn't relevant to Khabib, so his comments aren't/shouldn't be as big a deal/offensive to Khabib.
P.S. Fighting someone is not an "obvious reason" to attack someone's wife or religion either.

 

[BoomStronk]

Relevance is not "backwards logic". Strickland isn't relevant to Khabib, so his comments aren't/shouldn't be as big a deal/offensive to Khabib.
P.S. Fighting someone is not an "obvious reason" to attack someone's wife or religion either.

The only relevance difference between Shawn and conor is that conor stands to benefit from aggravating khabib. He has motive. The effect of his insults is relevant, whereas it is not relevant for Strickland.
Think again about the concept of "getting under (someone's) skin" and obviously prize fighting is a very, very clear reason to do that. And equally obviously, insulting or denigrating someone's loved ones or religion is a very, very clear method of accomplishing that goal. See Aldo McGregor, Ortiz Shamrock, Ali Foreman, or a million other examples.

Even for a sherdogger, you display a shockingly low ability to think clearly and a strange desire to argue with someone who makes you look dumb.

 

[Morax]

This whole "im allowed to say it cuz muh freedom so now if you dont like what i said, youre a bitch" is the most immature thing on the face of the planet. When freedom of speech is used by idiots who've never had the wisdom to understand what its really supposed to be. Just because you have the freedom of speech to be an asshole doesnt mean you should be.

Not only that, but freedom of speech is for everyone. If you use your freedom to talk and complain about something and I disagree or don't like it, i obviously can verbally react.

If someone thinks that disliking something and talking about it is being a bitch / soft / snowflake, what the fuck are they, then?

It's like playing a game with a child who makes up the rules on the fly: "I dislike everything about you but if you do the same about me it means you lose!!!"

 

[donkeyjr]

Conor never did disrespect Dustin's wife. He never mentioned her until she attempted to DM him with what one can only assume was unpleasant messages, Conor then went public with her behavior. That is literally all he did.

Then when he's on the canvas with his leg snapped in two she flips him off, so he responded. It's astonishing anyone found what he did offensive.

Thanks for letting us know Conor is a such a good human being, cheers, Conor fanboy.

 

[23rd Century Sweetheart]

Strickland has the same talking points you'd expect to find from a poster in his mother's basement at the height of anonymous imageboard popularity on the internet. Everyone thinks he's a freak and doesn't want to even talk about him because he might attract the feds at some point

 

[Mbowes]

he's openly stroking flames

I don't know, but this is now the new "not for the painted heart"

 

[mudrubble]

There is no discrepancy between Orlando situation and him doing this "random shit talking of people 100X more famous than me to get attention" deal so that's why no one relates the two.

I defended him in the Orlando situation because Orlando clearly tried multiple times to cause injury when his job was supposed to help Sean prep for a fight. Fuck that.

Obviously Sean's random shit talking is because he's desperate for attention and he realizes that...


... this is the case

Just for the record, Orlando wasn't helping Sean prepare. He was taking up his challenge because he was acting like an ass in the gym. He said he didn't know who he was or that he had a fight coming up and he wasn't there for Sean at all. Just happened to be there and Sean was acting like a dick and he agreed to spar with him and teach him a lesson.

Not saying it was or wasn't a dirty move. Just saying he wasn't there to prepare Sean for a fight.

 

[mudrubble]

Conor never did disrespect Dustin's wife. He never mentioned her until she attempted to DM him with what one can only assume was unpleasant messages, Conor then went public with her behavior. That is literally all he did.

Then when he's on the canvas with his leg snapped in two she flips him off, so he responded. It's astonishing anyone found what he did offensive.

Without any assumptions of unpleasant messages from her (no proof and no allegations of it - it's a randomly generated assumption) and missing the fact that he had promised her charity half a mill and pulled that away and obv she'd have some concerns about that big a donation being pulled back, I can easily see how many ppl can think he was being a dick.