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Originally Posted by TuscaloosaJohnny
You know as well as I do that “cancel culture” has become this derogatory term dealing with boycotting of businesses over perceived discrimination or political differences.
“Cancel culture” isn’t about political differences. It’s about people being offended by something and wanting/acting toward making it go away in order to justify their feelings. Why get all upset over something if you’re not going to do anything about it? The only reason it has crept into politics is because nowadays people become easily offended by the existence of other people who have different political views. Political differences are certainly not a new phenomenon. But perhaps the intolerance and inability to coexist is fairly new, and leading to expressions of cancel culture.
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Originally Posted by TuscaloosaJohnny
You also realize that in a free market customers can vote with their feet as this is a market with many tournament series.
Customers can vote with their feet. I encourage them to do so. That’s not what you’re doing. No one cares whether you play at the Orleans or any other venue or why you make the choices you make. But there’s a big difference between exercising your free will to choose, and trying to encourage group action to cause harm. You appeared in this thread to do precisely that by mocking somebody who doesn’t have the same viewpoint as you when it comes to the Orleans. And you indicated your wish that others boycott the Orleans because of how you feel about it. What other purpose could you possibly have had other than to do harm to the Orleans?
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Originally Posted by TuscaloosaJohnny
There is zero chance that poker tournaments and guarantees will cease to exist if players don’t go to Orleans and instead go to a rival Vegas casino.
If you have any principles and are not just full of hot air, then you can’t play at any venue which has pulled a guarantee or done something else to alter their tournament structure due to unforeseen events. I assure you, the number of places you can play at is smaller than you think, and will only grow smaller. Have fun with that.
And your suggestion that guarantees and tournaments will not be affected is naive, at best. The bigger the controversy raised when these rare pullbacks occur, the more likely it is that tournament organizers will lower and even eliminate guarantees, for all intents and purposes. It’s not worth the headache. That goes for all organizers. They know the next time it could be them. That is a real guarantee which you can take to the bank. Making justifiable profits from
poker tournaments in the casino environment is a tough proposition as it is. You start throwing in potential for overlays and boycotts into the mix, and one can see what will happen if there is any sort of significant groundswell of sentiment aligned with yours.
Fortunately we’re not at that point yet. But you’re not helping.
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Originally Posted by TuscaloosaJohnny
I can imagine a violin playing in the background as you compose your posts, so full of drama they are.
When you explain what sort of significant damage was done to you by the Orleans, perhaps you will have some standing in the drama department. But for now, all I see is you are calling for damage be done to a lot of people because your feelings were hurt. I see no justification for your overly dramatic response to the guarantee pullbacks.