Post by Heightism Report on Nov 23, 2020 5:30:01 GMT
I can't find any video of this incident, but about a month ago, I was watching the Bucs/Raiders game. The broadcasters who were covering the game were Mark Schlereth and Adam Amin. For those who don't watch the NFL, this season, the Raiders relocated to a new stadium in Las Vegas. At one point in the game, the camera cut to a photo-shopped picture of Schlereth and Amin on the street in Vegas. They were dressed as if they were part of a Vegas show. The show was titled "Short and Stink." Mark Schlereth is an ex NFL player and his nickname was "Stink" in his playing days because as a native Alaskan, he used to eat a traditional eskimo dish called "Stinkhead" and he also apparently had a habit of pissing his pants during games.
However, the made-up show was titled "Short and Stink," thus, I think we know the reason Adam Amin was referred to as "Short." In the picture, Schlereth was holding Amin and using him as a puppet. The picture didn't really demean Schlereth in any way, but Amin was being used as the whipping boy in the fictitious show depicted. I don't think I need to explain this further because short men are always expected to take the role of the court jester, while tall men are praised for using us as props to re-fill their ego, much like the photo had Schlereth using a short man as a prop to garner cheap laughs in a cheesy Las Vegas sideshow.
To make matters worse, after the screen transfers back to the broadcast booth, Amin goes full-Garmin. He says "Want to see some tv magic?" At that time, he walks partially down a staircase or something that led him to a lower elevation, making himself look even shorter, and he says "This is our real-life difference."
If that wasn't bad enough, some more egregious heightism occurred later in the game.
During a play where the Bucs scored a touchdown, one of the offensive linemen for the Bucs threw an aggressive block on one of the Raiders cornerbacks. For those who don't know, offensive linemen are usually the largest guys on the field, while cornerbacks are often the smallest. After seeing the replay, Schlereth(who is 6'3) said something along the lines of "Look at the Bucs lineman going for the smallest guy on the field. That's what us big guys are taught from day one. When you're growing-up on the playground, and a fight breaks out, us big guys know that we're supposed to find the smallest guy and punch him as hard as we can."
Wow! A tall man actually admitting that he seeks opportunities to violently attack short men. He didn't attach any blame to the short men for starting the altercation, nor, did he even add a qualification that the short men had to be involved in the altercation, he just flat-out said that you find the smallest guy in attendance and punch him as hard as you can. Let's also denote that he used the word "punch." He didn't say "block," "tackle," or anything else that could be interpreted to mean hit them in the context of making a football play, he was talking about fighting as in hand-to-hand combat. So, yes, a tall man on a broadcast for a major corporation admitting that he was "taught" to violently attack short men every chance he gets, and he received absolutely no backlash for it. As a matter of fact, this post is the first place you will find mention of this incident anywhere in the world. Like I said, it happened almost a month ago and I still can't find any discussion on it.
The last chapter of this saga is after Schlereth made his comments about punching the smallest man you can find, Adam Amin, The Goofball Garmin, just very sheepishly replied "Thanks for that." That's all he could muster in response to Schlereth revealing his violent tendencies toward short men. No social justice group in the world would be expected to tolerate hearing that they are intentional targets for violence, yet, short men just sit there and take it, or, like Adam Amin, they actively encourage the behavior.
However, the made-up show was titled "Short and Stink," thus, I think we know the reason Adam Amin was referred to as "Short." In the picture, Schlereth was holding Amin and using him as a puppet. The picture didn't really demean Schlereth in any way, but Amin was being used as the whipping boy in the fictitious show depicted. I don't think I need to explain this further because short men are always expected to take the role of the court jester, while tall men are praised for using us as props to re-fill their ego, much like the photo had Schlereth using a short man as a prop to garner cheap laughs in a cheesy Las Vegas sideshow.
To make matters worse, after the screen transfers back to the broadcast booth, Amin goes full-Garmin. He says "Want to see some tv magic?" At that time, he walks partially down a staircase or something that led him to a lower elevation, making himself look even shorter, and he says "This is our real-life difference."
If that wasn't bad enough, some more egregious heightism occurred later in the game.
During a play where the Bucs scored a touchdown, one of the offensive linemen for the Bucs threw an aggressive block on one of the Raiders cornerbacks. For those who don't know, offensive linemen are usually the largest guys on the field, while cornerbacks are often the smallest. After seeing the replay, Schlereth(who is 6'3) said something along the lines of "Look at the Bucs lineman going for the smallest guy on the field. That's what us big guys are taught from day one. When you're growing-up on the playground, and a fight breaks out, us big guys know that we're supposed to find the smallest guy and punch him as hard as we can."
Wow! A tall man actually admitting that he seeks opportunities to violently attack short men. He didn't attach any blame to the short men for starting the altercation, nor, did he even add a qualification that the short men had to be involved in the altercation, he just flat-out said that you find the smallest guy in attendance and punch him as hard as you can. Let's also denote that he used the word "punch." He didn't say "block," "tackle," or anything else that could be interpreted to mean hit them in the context of making a football play, he was talking about fighting as in hand-to-hand combat. So, yes, a tall man on a broadcast for a major corporation admitting that he was "taught" to violently attack short men every chance he gets, and he received absolutely no backlash for it. As a matter of fact, this post is the first place you will find mention of this incident anywhere in the world. Like I said, it happened almost a month ago and I still can't find any discussion on it.
The last chapter of this saga is after Schlereth made his comments about punching the smallest man you can find, Adam Amin, The Goofball Garmin, just very sheepishly replied "Thanks for that." That's all he could muster in response to Schlereth revealing his violent tendencies toward short men. No social justice group in the world would be expected to tolerate hearing that they are intentional targets for violence, yet, short men just sit there and take it, or, like Adam Amin, they actively encourage the behavior.
