Lars Sullivan Should Not Have a Job

Get this racist goon all the way outta here
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Lars Sullivan is an enigmatic figure in WWE, polarizing for sure even before certain details about his past leaked out. Generally, he was considered to be good enough at his job by his employers to have gotten a moderate push in NXT that culminated in a title opportunity. His main roster push resumed after his hiatus from the company over mental health issues, which was genuinely surprising since Vince McMahon doesn't seem like the type who has sympathy for anyone or anything for any reason. It also came despite the fact that certain posts of his from a bodybuilding forum years ago leaked that show him to be racist, sexist, xenophobic, and utterly devoid of any redeeming qualities outside of his prowess for wrestling, which after seeing some of the shit that came from his fingers to the keyboard to the bandwidth, means jack shit.

The posts began to leak earlier this year, but a Redditor u/MicDropsAndCumshots (righteous name, by the by) compiled everything that had been posted from u/farcevacant's comments on various posts. CONTENT WARNING, if you're sensitive to racism, rape imagery, or general bigotry, don't click the link, and I will try to describe it while using as little triggering language as possible. I won't go into full detail on everything, so if you're clickphobic or you think you might get some bad mental blowback, I will post a greatest hits of this shit here:

• He praised a band called Blue-Eyed Devils for their song "The Final Solution" which he mistakenly thought was titled "White Revolution." The band literally played Nazi music, and its guitarist, Wade Page, shot up a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012 and killed himself before the police could apprehend him.
• He intimated that Kofi Kingston and R-Truth looked like a "prison gang." He's currently feuding with Truth, for the record.
• He claimed that not all sexual assault was "legitimate."
• He accused immigrants of coming here for "free stuff" and that the Democrats were bribing them and minorities for votes/support.
• He derided people with mental illness as weak, which given his own mental health issues, is cruelly ironic.
• He bagged on Dave Meltzer for his coverage of "Chinese" wrestling, and I really don't think he was referring to Oriental Wrestling Entertainment, which at the time was still five years from inception.
• He mocked Chris Kanyon after his death.

And that all is just the tip of the iceberg. Sullivan is, without a doubt, a White supremacist ghoul who should be ostracized from society instead of being given a push in the biggest wrestling company in the world. Even more disturbing is that he is currently feuding with one of the targets of his past racism in Truth. Hell, all of his targets since coming back from his hiatus have either been POC or victims of other hatreds he holds (Kurt Angle being old, Jeff Hardy being a struggling addict). And it's not like people in the company don't know of this shit, if Big E is to be believed (and I see no reason why he shouldn't be):

Many are aware. If true, he has to bear the albatross of being a bigot & working in a company that is now filled with minorities.

— Florida Man (@WWEBigE) May 8, 2019

Big E is far more accommodating than one might expect, and I think his diplomacy might be tied to the fact that at least for the time being, he's gotta share a locker room with Sullivan. Then again, is it such a slam dunk that Sullivan will face repercussions commensurate to his vile and violent opinions?

Remember, McMahon is friends with Donald Trump, who is also a White supremacist. His wife was on Trump's cabinet. The family has donated to Trump's campaign, and probably will do so again in 2020. Kingston is only the fourth Black person to hold a top men's Championship in WWE in its 56-year history. It is not out of the realm of possibility that WWE brass knows about this shit and has decided to do nothing. The best chance for action to happen is if the right people pressure Stephanie McMahon and Paul Levesque, who trust me aren't any better than Vince but at least have the shame to respond to bad press. In this case, they wouldn't be getting rid of Sullivan because he's a bigot; they would be doing it because they don't want bad public relations.

Either way though, Sullivan should not have a job. No White supremacist should have a job. People don't understand the damage that these people can do because the World War II generation is dying off or becoming extremely racist thanks to watching FOX News all the time. Liberals are demanding that White supremacists be heard so that they can "be defeated in the marketplace of ideas," because the fucking marketplace of ideas worked so well in 1930s Germany, right? Everyone should know what these assholes have to say and what the fruits of that speech is. The duty of anyone who wants to live in a decent society is to make sure anyone who holds the kinds of beliefs that Sullivan has espoused and has not even begun to atone for (he blocked the guy who pointed all this out on Twitter along with anyone else who brings it up to him) is not able to live in said society. They don't deserve platforms. They don't deserve jobs. They don't deserve to survive without realizing that their hate is not only immoral but flat out wrong. I doubt Sullivan will catch any blowback from this from management, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't.