As we all know, bigotry is something that is everywhere in and in everyday life. It’s no real surprise that it has seeped its way into wrestling. Whether it’s racism, homophobia, transphobia or sexism, there are some wrestling fans that like to take the opportunity to ruin everyone’s enjoyment by being pricks.
Some people feel so entitled to spew their vileness, they don’t stop to think what their words cause or more likely, they don’t give a damn. The fact these “fans” feel the need to be like this online or at a wrestling show, speaks volumes of them as a person and tells you everything you need to about them. No wrestler deserves to be verbally attacked so viciously just because of the way they love is different, the colour of their skin is different or because they’ve changed sexual identity.
Just over the past weekend, somebody decided to go to Starrcast with the sole intention to be a cunt. He spent the time harassing people with his vile ideations, thankfully Matt Jackson (one of the Executive Vice Presidents of AEW) spoke out on Twitter, banning him from future events. That is something that every wrestling promotion needs to do. They have no right to be at an event if all their going to do is be a bigoted cunt.
The number of people who do this is astonishingly high, all they care about is spewing their hatred and making other people feel like shit. Wrestlers deserve respect for what they put themselves through for our entertainment, they do not deserve to be verbally attacked under any circumstances. At the end of the day, wrestlers are people too.
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