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The Boston Red Sox released minor league prospect Brett Netzer on Sunday after the 25-year-old tweeted a series of homophobic, transphobic, racist and anti-Semitic statements, including some directed at Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom, who is Jewish.
The news was first reported on Twitter by journalist Chad Jennings, who covers the Red Sox for The Athletic. Netzer responded to the tweet with, “interesting.”
interesting. https://t.co/qCTdlxhBO4
— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022
Netzer said Bloom “went to hebrew school and studied the torah growing up but sold his soul to the sodom and race groups,” called him a fraud and questioning if he was actually Jewish.
He also criticized Bloom’s support for Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community, and claimed “jews that follow the torah are against the lgbtq community.”
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and if i remember correctly
– chaim bloom supports black lives matter, the organization, and the group of sodomy, lgbt pride. maybe there should be a word for ironic in Hebrew.— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022
When called out for his racism, Netzer copped to it, tweeting, in part, “i am a racist.”
i am a racist. i do sometimes make assumptions based on a persons race/ethnicity/culture. glad that is out of the way https://t.co/lbJUoLzQsE
— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022
Later, Netzer argued that, in his opinion, “racism isn’t necessarily a bad thing.” He also self-described as a homophobe, but denied he’s anti-Semitic.
ill go along with racist and homophobic, but anti-semitic? thats too far. bloom is a hypocrite and an embarrassment to any torah-following jew. https://t.co/qCTdlxhBO4
— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022
In another tweet, Netzer compared transgender people to rapists.
Ironically, he began his tirade by saying “the real ones stay silent…like silent silent.” If only he considered himself a real one…
one thing ive learned since i stopped playing is that the more followers, or fans, somebody has just means they have a ton of snakes around…
the real ones stay silent.. like silent silent..— Brett Netzer (@BrettNetzer) February 26, 2022
Instead, he started letting his truest and dumbest thoughts out for public consumption, and the end results were as ugly as his batting stats.
Netzer was placed on the restricted list for the 2021 season for undisclosed reasons, which, combined with the 2020 season’s cancellation due to the pandemic, means the last time he took to the field was in 2019, playing for the Portland Sea Dogs.
He will not be missed.
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lferg58
Wow, this guy is sick. Glad he is no longer with the club. People like that are not salvageable.
MarcyMayer
It’s sad. He’s so filled with hate.
Cam
How adorable that the right wing trolls call it “hate” when people point out bigotry or rac-ism.
Seriously, I know Putin has serious problems right now but he needs to pay for smarter trolls.
Cam
That post was for the other thread, sorry.
Yeah, apparently to this guy, his rac-ism and hatred were far more important than his career.
Justnanny
I find it uplifting, especially at my age, to witness the progress that has been made as far as consequences for the hatred spewed by people like this. There’s a long way to go but I’m hopeful that future generations will benefit from our rejection of hatred upon LGBTQ lives. Be safe.
dhmonarch89
report to twitter- individual tweets and account.
ZzBomb
Well good luck getting a job in the real world now. MLB in the minor leagues doesn’t translate well into other parts of the private sector unless you like selling hot dogs at the stadiums. What a hateful moron
charette8596
Maybe he should travel over to Russia and play for Team Putin. He would fit right in.
Fahd
I don’t blame the parents. When the poorly educated have role models like Rogan, Tr*mp, and other wackos, this is what happens. He’s young enough to grow and learn from his mistakes, but overcoming the Twitter/Queerty/social media ignominy will be difficult for him – he no doubt has no resources at his disposal. I will keep a little hope for him – hate the sin, love the sinner, etc. No doubt he always planned on a life of obscurity working for his uncle’s contracting business.
doraglasberg
They are from small one horse towns and really believe EVERYONE has the same opinions as they do.
Heywood Jablowme
A lot of his tweets were hyper-religious wacko stuff, quoting from the Old Testament (especially Deuteronomy) snd he seemed to imply the Hebrews got that stuff wrong or misunderstood what God meant, or something.
Godabed
This is the kind of guy that regardless of the news Queerty would keep running stories on because he’s white, moderately attractive, and is boring AF. Like Madison Cawthorn who for some reason even thought he’s not lgbt and majority of the issues talked about has nothing to do with queer people. “Shrug” I guess when you’re a moderately attractive nazi, you deserve coverage.
On the plus side, this is actually queer news. *thumbs up*
Cam
You seem far more angry at Queerty running stories about hateful anti-LGBTQ bigots, than at the bigots themselves.
Hmmmmm
My2CentsWorth
How do you know that Madison Cawthorn is not a closet homo? His horribleness could be the results of him trying to mask and deal with his true self.
Cozmo2
Yaaass, Team sodomy here I guess no more hanging out in the locker room for you
Brian
The managers might be trying to support the minority groups mentioned in the tweets, and also, I bet another important consideration was that the guy seems loony and unhinged. The team needs people who are calm, focused, not addicted to drugs, etc. A long series of kooky tweets is a red flag.
scotty
again, nothing of value was lost.
jt1990
This guy’s lying. He wants people to think his tweets got him kicked out, truth is he’s only a mediocre baseball player. I guess when your kids ask why you got cut from the major leagues, this will make a better story than “I was just lousy at it”
Cam
Hi @SamB
I love how you think your jt screename is stealthy. And your attempt to always claim that people’s bigotry never is responsible for the consequences they receive.
So let’s see, he tweets out a bunch of racist and homophobic tweets, and a few days later is let go, and you’re trying to claim there was no connection?
As always, your troll game is sad and weak.
Heywood Jablowme
The Red Sox specified that his tweets WERE the reason he was fired.
The vast majority of minor leaguers never make the big league, but a .263 batting average is not exactly “mediocre” for a minor leaguer. Without the tweets, at 25 he’d probably have been kept on a little longer. But he was fired for the tweets.
curiobi
This seems like a desperate attempt on his part to get media attention and it worked, but only for today. I doubt it is going to translate into the book deal/financial opportunities he thinks it will. What a collosal idiot and general waste of oxygen.
Jim
Why did this guy fire himself basically
Scribe38
So when does he get a show on faux news follower Tucker
Cam
This is the world Republicans want. This is why they cheer whenever Margery Taylor Greene talks about getting rid of the Department of Education. They HATE the fact that local schools can’t teach praise of the KKK or Nazi groups.
Bosch
Educated citizens are much harder to brainwash.
Polaro
I don’t like cancel culture, I think it is out of control. Then I see these tweets, shake my head and say “cancel him”.
andy0529
“The only people who complain about cancel culture are rich and won’t STFU” John Stewart. “Cancel culture ” and “politically correct” are just right wing buzz word B.S. , just ask Kathy Griffin. At least he admits to being a straight up racist.
Bosch
The narrative lately is that “cancel culture” is new and woke, invented and perpetuated by the “left”.
Remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they spoke out against Bush Jr’s war?
Polaro
I’m not rich and I think cancel culture has gone too far. What happened to the Dixie Chicks was horrible. What happened to Aziz Ansari was terrible. The left and right both do this. More and more often it is wrong. In this case I think it was right. This was not a reasonable difference of opinion, its human troll being hateful. Liberal cancel culture took out Al Franken (what a mistake), not the right. Cancel culture went for Whoopi Goldberg and luckily finally failed. The difference is the left cancels their own, while the right cancels their enemies. Think about that.
Chrisk
What an angry and entitled POS. Good luck in your new life. Hopefully you’ll find employment that doesn’t give a f*ck about your open bigotry.
THAT Steve
Quoting the Old Testament when you’re supposed to follow the New Testament always baffles me. They also ignore that Christians are grafted onto the true vine of Israel and that there’s no NT condemnation of homosexuality. Cherry pickers gonna cherry pick I guess.
shaunpaul1234
Im jewish!!
People who adhere to the exact readings of the torah feel
Its ok to have the feelings
But u must not act on thm
Tht is a sin
At least thts wht ive bn told from th hasidic followers
So, he has a point about their feelings towards the lbgtq community
Im gay
And if bng a racist means we have to STOP systemic racism
But feel tht blm is a racist group, tht has done NOTHING, wth their money to lift up, ANY BLACK-COCOMMUNITY
BUT, prefers to keep thm down so they cn continually shout racism at the whiteys,
If tht is racist,
Thn we r in a VERY-SORRY STATE, and i DNT GIVE A DAMN
CL ME WHTEVR UD LIKE,
I DNT CARE!!
Kangol2
You’re clearly racist and in a sorry state and seemingly tweaking on something with your gibberish so you might want to give a damn!
Inspector 57
Kangol2, if — IF — I understood shaunpaul1234’s post correctly, I didn’t find racism there. It’s not racist to be critical of the organization BLM, or to acknowledge that an organized religion holds homophobic beliefs — even if that religion is some form of Judaism, as opposed to, say, Catholicism. In fact, he stated himself to be Jewish and a strong proponent of social justice for Blacks and LGBTQ people.
There IS that whole tweaking appearance to his text, but there are lots of other reasons besides drugs that might cause someone to have difficulty expressing himself conventionally in writing.
The one thing that bugs me about his post is that I will never again be able to think of a gathering of Black folks as something other than a “cocommunity!”
HuDD97
Where are these examples of BLM “shouting racisms at whiteys”? I’m not in any way informed regarding their “money” situation but the fact that they were called a “terrorist organization” since their inception from everyone on the right, including by our former president, along with having 90% of all law enforcement against everything they do, also from their outset, probably doesn’t make it easy to get their goals accomplished. Again, with so many ‘decision makers’ who are in prominent positions being against their every move would make it difficult to make those moves, I would think…
bgeorge59
Somehow Queerty managed to find a pic that made this ugly person inside and out look attractive
James
That is your opinion. Most of us are not attracted to racist hate filled losers and do not see anything attractive about that. Only whores would find this guy attractive.
Essie
Someone on twitter said this fool sounds like he is in the middle of a drug binge. If so, I wonder how he will feel when he comes down from his high. That may be true but I agree with the person who said he deliberately got himself fired because he knew he was never going to play again since he hasn’t played since 2019 and was mediocre at best. The man is 27. He had no future in MLB. Going out with a bang makes him feel superior and not the loser he really is.
Kangol2
Typical White racist creep who openly admits it. He probably could have gotten away with hateful comments about Black people, or Muslims, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Chinese people, LGBTQ people, etc. but the anti-Semitism is usually a bridge too far, unless you’re Don the Con, in which case you can use openly anti-Semitic frames and utter anti-Semitic statements and retweet anti-Semitic memes and members of your cult and the broader media will find ways to excuse or deflect or downplay your actions!
SDR94103
they called him nancy on the team.
IanHunter
He’s really ignorant. Sorry his education system failed him.
doraglasberg
Religious nuts tend to be the WORST nuts.
Polaro
You have to either be a nut or dumb to take religion seriously. Facts matter. Religion fails that test.
doraglasberg
HA HA HA HA
Those gloves make him look as if if he
s wear nail polish. JUNGLE RED, Dear???
Nancy Joyzee
Good Riddance to White Trash
SFMike
So many people saying this moron will have trouble finding a job but all he has to do is run for a Republican congressional seat and will be on easy street for years. He’s the perfect Republican candidate being young handsome and evil. All the boxes checked for a political win.
Inspector 57
No matter what their motivation(s) — disgust with Netzer’s tweets; his pathetic batting average; concern about their PR; pressure from above — good for the Mets! Thanks for being quick and decisive about it!
Mack
As I said on another post, he’ll be hired in Florida or Texas-they love bigots and racists there.
shaunpaul1234
Im commenting to kankol2, re calling me a racist!!
I have no prblm wth bng cld a racist, considering it comes from one who obviously, is a part of the cancel “woke”, culture,
Proving, once again, they r out, for their own victimhood, have a deep need to blame others, for their “feelings, thus, NEVER, growing up to take control of their own feeling, life,
Constantly blaming others, for their own personal failings,
Thus, therefore, their deep, buried in their own DNA, need to turn over a rock, and shout racism!!
So, bng cld racists, by ur kind, is nothing but an act of desperation, for which
U HAVE MY ETERNAL SYMPATHY!!
I HOPE U GT BTTR, but, tht wld take,
GROWING THE HELL UP AND MATURING, and accepting, Life dosent evolve around U and UR FEELINGS!!
GOOD LUCK WITH THT PROCESS!!
nm4047
He maybe ok with his ball handling skills, but reality, he’s just another meat head and will most likely be picked up by one of the other lesser minded clubs for the publicity he has generated, such as the preaching to choir comments he has loaded.
Heywood Jablowme
No way.
inbama
Just checked his Instagram.
The photos wreak of the closet.
Invader7
Who wants to bet he’ll be caught up coming out of a bath house or adult book store or gay bar or….. ????
avesraggiana
Closet Case Alert! Closet Case Alert!!!
Ginger Tom
Yes, sure he’s a sicko but it is so rare that a racist will actually admit to being a racist instead of denying it he deserves some sort of mention. I don’t admire him for “coming out” but I just wish others who were racist admitted it and didn’t pretend.