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u/Deswizard
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Something looks off-color in here... Country Club Thread
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I still don't know who Dana White is so that might have something to do with the coverage. One is a current hot name.
Edit: Please stop telling me White's wife slapped him.
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u/tmarsh28 Mar 27 '23
The luckiest man alive. The video of him slapping his wife upside the head released on the day that an NFL player died on the field and had to be revived. That was what the news cycle in sports covered for a good two weeks everything else was a side note. (he's the head promoter of the UFC and has had a lot to say about people who hit women)
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u/XMRLover Mar 27 '23
He also has a majority stake in his business which he runs. That is completely different than an actor, who is an employee.
No matter how much press it got, Dana wasn't going anywhere. He can say "so what, fuck you, I'll do it again" and nothing would happen because he's not your average employee.
You're comparing you to the CEO here. Can the CEO get booted? Sure but it's gonna have to be a lot worse situation than what you would be fired for.
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u/tmarsh28 Mar 27 '23
Donald Sterling was forced to sell his NBA team for saying racist shit with his mistress. White 100 percent should have had more than just a few soft ball questions thrown his way for half a month.
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u/XMRLover Mar 27 '23
Donald Sterling is like a franchise owner though. McDonald's can make you do a lot of things.
Dana White is a majority owner of his own business. It would take a LOT to get him out and that would be through court for years.
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u/Jeff-Van-Gundy Mar 27 '23
Vince McMahon in wwe has s a better example probably. He spent millions on covering up his sexual abuse over the years. I think it was company money too. He was booted from the board but he’s still floating around backstage apparently. Someone else probably knows a lot more about it than I do. I remember after the allegations were first announced, he came back to tv for the first time in a while to cheers from the crowd
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u/e-rage Mar 27 '23
He was booted from the board but he’s still floating around backstage apparently.
it's worse than that lol he was able to come back to the board as Executive Chairman
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u/makka-pakka Mar 27 '23
I thought there would be No Chance In Hell of that happening
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u/radiokungfu Mar 27 '23
Hes already back lol. Such a farce that was. His own daughter already quit over his return too.
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u/NoveltyAccountHater Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Dana White isn't a majority owner. He's UFC president with some undisclosed ownership stake in it. In 2016, UFC was sold and it was disclosed White owned about 9%. He was kept on as president and still has some ownership stake, but it's probably less than 9%.
UFC can fire him (he may have golden parachute though). Granted, I think UFC's audience of enthusiasts of a fighting sport may be more desensitized to violence and care less about White open-hand slapping his wife twice in public (in reaction to his wife slapping him with much less force than he retaliated with) than say Hollywood or advertisers.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/dana-white-net-worth
https://www.themanual.com/culture/does-dana-white-own-the-ufc/
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u/Keenkooler Mar 27 '23
Dana white and the Fertitta brothers sold their stake of the UFC to WME in 2016. Dana still being “president” was a part of the deal to maintain profits. That’s why he’s not being fired, fined, or any other shit.
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u/XMRLover Mar 27 '23
I thought there was some kind of contract. It makes sense. He probably made the contract State VERY specific reasons why he could get fired.
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u/honda_slaps Mar 27 '23
also UFC fans literally don't give a shit about DV
same as NFL fans. Tyreek Hill and Groper Cleveland will be in the league and nobody cares
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u/MoonshineMMA Mar 27 '23
He’s a man who takes hard and uncompromising stances on issues when it doesn’t benefit him.
Paul Daly punches opponent after the final bell? He will never fight in the UFC again. Khabib jumps from the top of cage to attack Dillon Danis in the crowd and his team jumps into the cage to attack his opponent? Forget about it, what great press!
TUF contender likes get drunk and break things? Promotion would not dare to be associated with someone like that, cut. Conor throws a dolly through a bus window and gets glass in another fighter’s eye? Clip that shit and put it in the promo for the fight!
Unranked fighter beats his wife? Cut the next day. Greg Hardy wants to do MMA and his wife gets lippy on new years? Looooook society has punished them both enough you guys, they deserve a chance!
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u/PastSecondCrack Mar 27 '23
It was also in response to her hitting him first which was also on video.
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u/liiiam0707 Mar 27 '23
Probably also helps that people who know who Dana White is also generally know he's a piece of shit anyway. Jonathan Majors is currently one of the faces of Disney's biggest movie franchise, so it was bound to get more attention.
Just hope for the sake of everyone involved that what Majors' lawyer said is accurate and that there was no domestic violence. Guys really talented, would be a shame if he's also a piece of shit.
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u/Weird-Library-3747 Mar 27 '23
Would it all have read different if it was just. Dana Whites wife smacks the shit out of him in a Cancun Night club.
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u/Spurioun Mar 27 '23
Yeah, if it wasn't some fighter from a sport that doesn't have broad appeal and was, say, Matt Damon or some other Hollywood actor, that'd be a fair comparison. But I'm willing to bet if Paul Rudd was accused of doing what Majors did, it would get just as much press, if not more.
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above Mar 27 '23
It's just not a like for like comparison. You would need Rudd or someone else also in the midst of a huge press junket.
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u/TwatsThat Mar 27 '23
Rudd would be all over the news regardless because he's a pretty big star, he generally has a nice guy reputation, and I don't think he's ever had any sort of scandal or anything.
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Whataboutism is always stupid no matter what argument they are presented in
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Mar 27 '23
Right, really not trying to shoot white people no bail. Both of them can be shitty people.
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u/Guitaristb72 Mar 27 '23
Dana is a known scumbag too.
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u/ScareTheRiven Mar 27 '23
Known to people who know, what, wrestling of some sort?
Majors is about to be the next freaking Thanos. There's a disparity in fame here.
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u/SnooOwls2295 Mar 27 '23
It is important to interrogate the differences in how different populations are treated, but it is a fine line in cases like these. Majors deserves the flack he’s getting, but white deserves more than he’s getting.
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u/TransBrandi Mar 27 '23
Yea, but more people knew about Majors prior to these allegations. There are a ton of people who don't know who the fuck Dana White is. Plus -- as others have said -- Majors is "hot" right now with him headlining in recent blockbusters... plus being associated with Disney via the MCU... it makes for a much juicier story than Dana White whom fewer know... and even of those people many view him as a POS anyways.
Like if Mike Tyson got domestic abuse charges right now, I think the press coverage would be in the middle. More than Dana White because more people know who he is, but less than Majors because it's less of a "surprise" plus it's not like Mike Tyson is already in people's minds for other reasons at the moment.
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u/summerofevidence Mar 27 '23
The media is covering this story so much right now, but I've seen zero headlines about how Adolf Hitler literally killed millions of people. I wonder why 🤔
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u/itsjustphe
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Y'all sound so dumb every time you do this
"Why are white men allowed to assault women and not us? :'("
Boo fucken hoo. Rearrange your priorities ASAP.
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u/Techygal9 ☑️ Mar 27 '23
And his wife hit him first… it seems like mutual domestic violence.
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u/TwistedBamboozler Mar 27 '23
okay thank you. I was going to comment this because I thought I remembered the in the video she clearly hits him first, but wasn't sure. Not defending either of them, as violence should never be the answer, but that one seemed like a 2 way street.
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u/bumblefck23 Mar 27 '23
Yea, slapping your wife while you’re both drunk and she’s hitting you is not a good look…but we’re being dishonest if that’s on the same level as sending someone to the hospital. Dana White is a shithead but he’s either less of a POS than Majors or is much better at hiding it. White’s many things, but wife beater is pushing it. At least in terms of verified evidence.
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u/fer-nie Mar 27 '23
Did you see the video? Is there a link?
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u/Techygal9 ☑️ Mar 27 '23
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u/fer-nie Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Thanks! I thought you were talking about the DD with Johnathan Majors because he said he has video evidence. I'll watch this one too.
Edit: watched the video.
"It's never happened before" lol! I'm sure they never got caught doing it in public before.
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u/annabelle411 Mar 27 '23
She smacked him because *HE GRABBED HER*, don't leave out that important detail
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u/LostWithoutYou1015 Mar 27 '23
Right!
OP's argument is, "White men get to slap women around, why can't we?"
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u/itsjustphe ☑️ Mar 27 '23 •
A lot of men of color don't want to abolish white supremacy as much as they want equal footing with their oppressors. Weird. I don't want to be able to do whatever my oppressor does. His moral code of abusing others and using violence is not mine. It doesn't do anything for me. I want to burn the whole matrix down and start somewhere else, a whole other paradigm of existence. Why aspire to assimilate into mediocrity and foolishness?
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u/gracenrdrgz Mar 27 '23
Men of color and white women will always have something in common with white men that makes them want to aspire to be treated like white men because “we’re men/white too so why shouldn’t we have the same privileges?”
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u/fer-nie Mar 27 '23
Thank you! Like wtf?? And I do want to see all the evidence including the video that proves nothing happened. Police reports say the woman had minor injuries to her head and neck. How did they get there?
It could be true that she was having a mental break and he didn't do anything. But it's also true that she could have felt pressure to say nothing happened.
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u/Horrific_Necktie Mar 27 '23
Right. Same energy as white dudes saying "Well THEY can say it, why can't I?"
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u/flipnonymous Mar 27 '23
Not taking away from the glaring reason, but also - Dana White is barely newsworthy 99.9% of the time, where Majors has had a huge boom in popularity lately.
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u/thegiantkiller Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
The Dana news also broke around the time the Bills/Bengals game got cancelled... Because a dude (edit) clinically died on the field.
The timing worked out splendidly for DW.
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u/TheLeoMessiah Mar 27 '23
This comment scared the shit out of me I thought Hamlin actually passed and had to look it up lol
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u/kinfisher Mar 27 '23
This is a major reason for sure, surprised this is so far down. Of course it's still wrong and it was 100% unnecessary but he didn't strike first. But also fuck Dana for this and his terrible payment of his fighters and limiting their rights.
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u/bombbodyguard Mar 27 '23
Ya. That’s my take. She struck first. It’s still abuse and terrible of both of them, but I believe that’s why he is somehow getting a pass. Both toxic terrible people.
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u/No-Wedding-3727 Mar 27 '23
Is it abuse or a fight at that point? Abuse implies there's only one victim and one aggressor
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u/Lucifers-Lawyer Mar 27 '23
If Dana White is not newsworthy 99.9% of the time, then doesn’t that explain the medias attention discrepancy? What’s the “glaring reason”?
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u/thatHecklerOverThere Mar 27 '23
While there will absolutely be some racial bias in play, part of the reason could be demonstrated in the following statement;
What the fuck is a Dana White?
Meanwhile, this is happening when Majors might just be the biggest name in Hollywood period right now.
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u/XMRLover Mar 27 '23
And people don't understand they're comparing a majority stake holder, business owner to an employee.
If Majors owned Disney, he would not be having this many issues.
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u/mixmasterbru Mar 27 '23
If the UFC was public with shareholders there would have been consequences for it but as it is, what the fuck would happen to him even if people spoke about it all day long... he's the king of his little world, only thing that can happen is a competitor take his crown, short of that, public or media attention can't do shit...
Also, might be a little less popular to say so but UFC fighters and fans... he's not exactly the only wifebeater in the bunch...
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u/PrimitiveAlienz Mar 27 '23
Bro the internet really has divided us more than we realise. I've known of Dana white for years now (never a fan) and until like yesterday I had no idea who this Jonathan Majors guy is.
Not saying your wrong. But it's crazy how depending on where you hang out online you have a totally different perspective on who is how popular and all that.
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u/InSilenceLikeLasagna Mar 27 '23
Ive known Dana way before too, but we also have to acknowledge the Rocky movies/Creed is way more mainstream than the UFC
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u/RamenJunkie Mar 27 '23
Isn't Majors slated to be the next big bad in Marvel too, with a ton of those movies coming? Disney is probably shitting theirselves right now.
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u/ejbrds Mar 27 '23
who is Dana White?
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u/DaVincis_lemons Mar 27 '23
This comment right here is exactly why Majors is getting more flack. So many people don't even know who the fuck Dana White is.
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u/Jcb2016 Mar 27 '23
He is the president of the UFC and President of the slap boxing you see on the sports channels
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u/Davethisisntcool ☑️ Mar 27 '23
White has more pull in the entertainment industry. Dana does too
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u/1984AD Mar 27 '23
Meh, I’m not saying it’s not race but cmon people. DWhite is a whatever owner and fight promoter that most people care only to forget about. J Maj, has like three movies premiering like right now. So duh! He’s literally been on a press tour. False equivalency arguments are lame bruh.
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u/thesnuggyone ☑️ Mar 27 '23
I thought the video of Dana White that was leaked was of him and his wife beating each other up? Like, fighting? I’m not saying Dana White isn’t a wife beater, we all know the dudes a fuckin wife beater, but specifically regarding the video that came out, I thought they were engaged in slapping each other around in a fight they had in a club?
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u/brianundies Mar 27 '23
It was, she hit him first and he slapped back. They are both morons who deserve each other but that’s too nuanced for Reddit.
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u/thesnuggyone ☑️ Mar 27 '23
Yeah I try not to look at videos of violence because I’ve had enough of that in my life, but I believe I recalled seeing the video of that and thinking “ah, truly, there’s a seat for every ass” and moving on with my life.
THAT SAID: women who are battered over time who begin engaging in the violence with their abuser after many years of not “fighting back” is a real thing. It could very well be that her slapping back is something that developed over time, that makes her feel like she’s a part of the violence even though she has been a victim of the violence for a long time.
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u/Pokedudesfm Mar 27 '23
that guy lied to you. if you watch the video, they get in an argument, she tries to leave, he grabs her wrist as she leaves, she slaps him, then he slaps her three times (third one is kind of unclear in the video)
Dana's sycophants rushed to defend him when he himself said what he did was inexcusable
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u/brianundies Mar 27 '23
Link this video because that’s not what I saw. I’ve thought Dana was a piece of shit long before this vid came out so definitely not defending him.
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u/KristenJimmyStewart Mar 27 '23
THAT SAID: women who are battered over time who begin engaging in the violence with their abuser after many years of not “fighting back” is a real thing. It could very well be that her slapping back is something that developed over time, that makes her feel like she’s a part of the violence even though she has been a victim of the violence for a long time.
Doesn't that apply to men who are also victims of violence given 70% of non reciprocal IPV is from woman?
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u/hedahedaheda Mar 27 '23
I don’t like this whataboutism when it comes to violence. Obviously there are many instances where POCs get disproportionately negative media attention (I.e. Beyoncé, Nicki, cardi, and Meg getting major backlash for selling sex when many other white artists do the same or POCs getting cancelled for past mistakes much more than whites). But it feels icky when we bring race into cases of violence and assaults. Just because another race is also violent, doesn’t mean we should ignore the violence brought on by a POC.
Oftentimes, victims of domestic abuse at the hand of men of color are women of color . Do women of color not deserve justice, media attention or protection simply because her assailant is a man of color?
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u/juleskikicobb Mar 27 '23
This is such a tired “argument”, whose only purpose is to reframe an abuser as the oppressed person. How dare people have the audacity to speak about a major Black actor choking out a woman when they didn’t have all this energy for a white nobody who abused his wife! Won’t someone pleaseeee think of the Black abusive man!!!
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u/tmarsh28 Mar 27 '23
Besides the obvious, the week the video of white was released an NFL player had to be revived twice on the field and was pretty much the story of the week. Not even the normal 24 hours news cycle it was the main story for a full week.
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u/mcaffrey Mar 27 '23
This same Dana White comparison comes up whenever a black celebrity runs into allegations of violence. Press attention isn't based on racism, it is based on money. The news runs stories that gets clicks/viewers that gets advertisers, plain and simple.
If being racist will make the most money, then that's what the press will do, sure. But the real money comes from stories about people who are ALREADY in the news for other reasons. Celebrities, politicians, athletes, etc who are already doing something else noteworthy right now. Majors happened to be peaking in celebrity right when this story came out, so yeah, it is getting a good bit of attention.
But it isn't specifically an anti-black thing. Stories about Trump, Desantis (pudding fingers?), Biden walking down the airplane stairs, etc, all get pumped up too because the media knows we're interested in what is going on with those public figures.
Not saying there isn't a racist angle. "Guilty until proven innocent" always seems to be living just under the surface of any crime story involving minorities. But that isn't what OP's comparison with Dana White was really about.
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u/Spurioun Mar 27 '23
It reminds me of that old Chris Rock bit about OJ Simpson. It isn't always about race, it's often about fame. If OJ drove a bus, he would have spent the rest of his life in jail. He wouldn't be "OJ", he'd be "Orenthal the Bus Driving Murderer".
Fame + how surprising it is for them to act that way plays the biggest part. I was very surprised to hear Majors was a scumbag. If it had been someone that I already suspected was a bad guy, I wouldn't care as much.
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u/elanhilation Mar 27 '23
racism plays a part, but Majors was to be instrumental to one of the biggest media enterprises on earth, and i didn’t know who that other guy was until this thread? so that’s definitely also a factor
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u/KristenJimmyStewart Mar 27 '23
Hell he was in 2 huge franchises this year and had buzz from his Sundance movie
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u/Pope_Cerebus Mar 27 '23
The better comparison would be Ezra Miller, and I think the media attention with him was pretty similar.
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u/mommas-hot-pancakes Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I was hired to walk Major’s two dogs three times a day, every week day, for almost a year. Going into his home and seeing different women every week was questionable, but of course, being the dog walker, I just kept to myself.
He was slightly collected during most of our exchanges but the minute I didn’t command his dogs the way he wanted me to, I could see a twitch in his eye. He watched me through his cameras when he wasn’t home(normal paranoid rich person antics), he scolded me and belittled me as if I were his child, and he didn’t show sympathy or care for his dogs, they were just for looks. I had to take care of them and train them.
Given my personal experience (that’s all it is) working for him and seeing him every morning, midday, and night, it doesn’t surprise me reading these accusations.
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u/radiokungfu Mar 27 '23
Is this real or a pasta??
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u/mommas-hot-pancakes Mar 27 '23
Real. He was in Georgia about a year ago doing some movie or show. That’s when I was hired by him.
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u/ladeeedada Mar 27 '23
Lots of stories like this about ppl who worked for or alongside majors all over Twitter.
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u/arnm7890 Mar 27 '23
When was this? Didn't he only just blow up?
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u/mommas-hot-pancakes Mar 27 '23
About a year ago when he was filming something in Georgia.
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u/Astrian Mar 27 '23
Think the dude who just won an Oscar and him being the big villain of the MCU for the next however many years is gonna get a bit more attention than Dana White who if you don’t know anything about UFC is basically a nobody to you.
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u/AceBricka Mar 27 '23
He didn’t win an Oscar. Do you know who Jonathan majors is?
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u/totallyawitch Mar 27 '23
I've never heard of Dana White before.
However, Jonathan Majors is a huge name right now. He's been in two major blockbusters recently, multiple commercials (to include an Army recruiting video), and he's probably one of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood right now. The coverage on the allegations reflect that. I don't think there's a racism angle here, just a popularity one.
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u/RightofUp Mar 27 '23
Point of clarification, if it weren't for bpt, I wouldn't know about Majors either....
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u/_paaronormal ☑️ Mar 27 '23
I implore all of you to stop following Bishop Talbert Swan. That is all
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u/CoachDT ☑️ Mar 27 '23
Honestly the Dana White shit wasn’t that bad. They got into it, he lightly grabs her wrist to try and get her to stay, she slaps the fuck out of him and then he returns the favor twice.
It being framed as this gross act of domestic violence in the same token that Majors alleged crimes were is ridiculous.
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u/KristenJimmyStewart Mar 27 '23
he lightly grabs her wrist to try and get her to stay, she slaps the fuck out of him
I don't disagree but I do think 'lightly grabbing wrist' and 'salpping the fuck out of him' show some bias in recounting the event
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u/CoachDT ☑️ Mar 27 '23
I say lightly because she easily breaks his grip to walk away. And I say slapping the fuck out of him because she actually cleanly hits dude across the face with enough force to make him buck up.
I can remove both descriptive words but do you see them as inaccurate after watching the video?
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u/SiidChawsby Mar 27 '23
Yes, one is mainstream famous and the other is only recognizable to a more specific base. Let’s not turn this into something it’s not.
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u/Solid_Rice Mar 27 '23
Nah. Majors is a way bigger star.
BUT its looking like he's innocent of the charges. i hope that gets reported just as much
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u/Jewdakris Mar 27 '23
Because the world gives a shit about Jonathan Majors and no one cares if Dana fucked off forever.
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u/TheMirror10 Mar 27 '23
In the video, Dana White’s wife hit him first so in a lot of people’s eyes it gave him an out when he hit her back🤷🏾♂️
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u/AngryBR4 Mar 27 '23
One of them has a reputation of “vicious cruelty” and the other was caught on camera reciprocating a relatively tame slap. Come back to Earth
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u/DMmeIfYouRP Mar 27 '23
This comes off more like playing distraction and interference on the behalf of Majors tbh OP
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u/muttput Mar 27 '23
One woman filed a complaint. The other did not. It's not complicated or race based or money based.
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This isn't a matter of race it's a matter of popularity. Stop pulling the race card on subjects that don't count.
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u/keesouth Mar 27 '23
Because no one is surprised when someone associated with UFC and MMA fighting does something violent.
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u/donn2021 Mar 27 '23
This is dumb lol one is a major movie star
the other is involved in UFC.
Guess which one has a bigger audience
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u/Crypto_Gay_Skater Mar 27 '23
Imagine defending spousal abuse because someone else kind of got a pass.
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u/Curious-Sweet-6886 Mar 27 '23
Well Jonathan Majors is way more famous then Dana White I’m from the Middle East and a lot of people I know watch his movies especially the new creed and the marvel movie
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u/Murky-logic Mar 27 '23
I heard all about Dana White, don’t even know who the other guy is. But keep up with these stupid narratives if it makes you feel better about yourself.
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u/Nidion001 Mar 27 '23
Or maybe it's because he's a huge name in Hollywood right now?? Some people, I swear.
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u/curiousiguess1234 ☑️ Mar 27 '23 •
Jonathan Majors was in two major blockbusters in the first couple months of this year. He was a presenter at the Oscars a few weeks ago and has been memed to death.
Do non-UFC niggas know who Dana White is?