WWE Raw General Manager Adam Pearce has taken a stance against the racist comments he's seen on his Facebook page.
Pearce shared a throwback image of himself as NWA World Heavyweight champion, giving the middle finger, accompanied by a clear message:
Your response, should you have one at all, to MY statement that racism is not allowed on MY Facebook page should be acknowledgement. Period.
I do not care if you agree.
I do not care if you don’t.
I do not care about “yeah but…”.
I do not care about “what about…”.
I do not care about “but your boss…”.
I do not care about “but your job…”.
If your mind jumps to any topic other than “I will not allow racism on MY Facebook page”, you’ve missed the point…either by choice or by dipshit.
IN SUMMATION: I, Adam Pearce, will not tolerate racism on MY Facebook page.
Happy Hump Day. I now await comments that make me silently thank you for watching our television programs.?
What caused this?
Pearce's Facebook message didn't come out of nowhere. In the days prior, the WWE Raw General Manager had publicly defended Bad Bunny, who has become the latest lightning rod in America's culture wars after a historic week.
Bad Bunny's Grammy win for Album of the Year, the first ever for a fully Spanish-language project, was accompanied by an acceptance speech championing immigrant rights and a ceremony where stars wore "ICE out" buttons in protest of immigration raids.
The moment immediately reignited backlash from conservative commentators, some of whom had already been attacking Bad Bunny's upcoming Super Bowl halftime slot by arguing the show should be performed in English and that the Puerto Rican artist, a U.S. citizen, "isn't American enough."
Critics and fans alike have labeled that rhetoric as thinly veiled racism and xenophobia, noting it reduces Spanish-speaking identity to something inherently foreign.
Pearce's decision to wade into the debate drew enough vitriol to his personal page that he felt compelled to draw a clear line, a reminder that the intersection of wrestling, pop culture, and politics can get ugly fast when questions about who counts as "American" are on the table.
