Curt Schilling was a great pitcher, winning World Series with both the Diamondbacks and the Red Sox. He's not great at tweeting though. The latest controversial tweet from Schilling, which was quickly deleted, featured Nazis, extremist Muslims, fuzzy math, and some ambiguous racism.
The "staggering math" that had Schilling's mind in overdrive can be found here in a snapshot. In his tweet he cites figures with no mention of where they came from that poke fun at people who claim only a small percentage of Muslims are extremists. "It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists," the tweet reads with Adolf Hitler in the background.
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"In 1940 only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"
Yikes! Not only is Schillings correctly-deleted tweet racially charged, it's pointless. Is Schilling passive-aggressively saying that some amorphous "we" should do something about Muslims? Egging on the government to take action against Muslims? He looks like he's trying to make a grand point, but it fell flat.
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The tweet also got him booted from ESPN's Little League World Series coverage, and the Worldwide Leader released a statement expressing displeasure with Schilling's comments.
"Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company's perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current Little League assignment pending further consideration," ESPN's statement read.
This is not Schilling's first rodeo when it comes to getting blasted for his social media presence. Not long ago he and fellow ESPN personality Keith Law got into a spirited debate about the merits of the theory of evolution.
Settle in and listen to this world changing mind, he's eccentric and awesome, you have to rethink your world. https://t.co/Lf7FMjh00D
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 12, 2014
Law posted multiple rebuttals that eventually got him suspended. Interestingly enough, there was no punishment for Schilling. Most sane adults would say nobody should have been suspended, but here was an example of the kind of tweets Law was firing off.
@gehrig38 @zoowithroy There are hundreds of transitional fossils on record, Curt. https://t.co/cmTiqzhtC5 — keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 13, 2014
Schilling's Twitter career isn't all bad. He did earn praise-once-for successfully defending his daughter from Twitter trolls and affecting those trolls' lives for the worse. Here's a sampling of what kind of harassment she was receiving online.
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