# Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman suspended for on-air anti-gay slur

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**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cincinnati-reds-announcer-thom-brennaman-suspended-for-on-air-anti-gay-slur/918619 "2020-08-20T23:42:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac8455/32.png) [@Harrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harrington)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cincinnati-reds-announcer-thom-brennaman-suspended-for-on-air-anti-gay-slur/918619/42 "2020-08-23T16:01:58Z")

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> [@needscoffee](#):
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> > [@Harrington](#):
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> > And starts the agree-fest, no substance post, pile-on
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> You’ve really written nothing of substance to respond to. “My friends and I do it so it must be okay” isn’t terribly substantial.

And wholly shit, tell me what it’s like to have never said the words "fag,“bitch,” “whore,” or the like. I’m genuinely curious. None of those words have ever escaped your lips? I’m not talking about ideology, I’m talking about utterances. You cannot presume Brennaman’s ideology, because you don’t know.

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