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2715656, I don't quite get the level of outrage on this one
Posted by Cocobrotha2, Mon Jun-08-20 12:26 PM
It was flippant and callous to include George Floyd's name in the tweet but I didn't see it as racist, given some context.

He's been battling public health orgs for years because he thinks they don't know what they're doing. They called CrossFit ineffectual and questioned Glassman promoting low carb/sugar diets.

I believe he's a professed libertarian as well (why he set up the CrossFit affiliation program the way he did) so I'm sure he's one of those people that's also been skeptical of how the COVID epidemic has been handled.

I can see him getting triggered when an org that's been modeling the spread of the disease starts talking about treating racism as a public health issue as well.

But I guess most people are assuming that he's calling both COVID and racism fake.