I'm just surprised that a company as large and reputable as Bodybuilding.com would choose to do business or associate itself with Matt Canning and his website. Perhaps Bodybuilding.com's Will Weidenman is aware of it and his German ancestry takes a certain pride in Matt's posts, but I find it difficult to believe that Ryan, Russ, and Jeremy DeLuca or the new majority owners would choose to associate themselves with someone whose website exhibits such racial and religious bigotry and intolerance.
It's not as if the opinions on Matt's forums aren't his. They are. He posts anti-semitic and anti-black statements here and on his Bodybuilding.com affiliated website.
I wonder how Matt will feel when Bodybuilding.com dumps him. And then when Netrition dumps him. And then every other reputable company dumps him. I guess we'll be able to post something like this:
Persecution of Matt Canning
2008 Thrown out of Bodybuilding.com
2009 Thrown out of Netrition.com
2010 Thrown out of Europa.com
2011 Forced to apply to Thunder Bay post office.
Hmmmm...I guess it's kinda like a guy getting thrown out of one bar. I guess if he gets thrown out of several different bars, there must be a reason for it.
Matt lives in a blue collar depressed town probably devoid of Jews, Blacks, Asians and other minorities. He doesn't leave his house, doesn't have a girlfriend, and doesn't speak to many people in real life. He has a desperate need to belong. He joined the military hoping to find comraderie but found himself an outcast. He tries to fit in to society but is unable to do so in a productive way. Combine his lonely, sheltered life with his deep-rooted insecurities in his intelligence, physicality, and sexuality, and is it really any surprise he's adopted the views he has? I guess it's better than shooting up the post office, but not by much.