Looks like Hulk Hogan in back in the good graces of the WWE, and though he hasn't signed a contract, they've slowly started to recognize him again. Backstage at their last PPV, Backlash, he gave an apology backstage, and he was reinstated into the WWE Hall of Fame. The drama started when audio was released of Hogan racist things. The video was released in 2015, and the sex tape that it was part of was made in 2006. Now what Hogan said was bad, but this was a private conversation. Who knows the things that people say in private. I can understand the firing of Hogan, but I think they took it too far. There was no need to act as if the biggest star you ever had never existed. There was no need to remove him from their Hall of Fame. There are plenty people in there who have said, and done worse. But we are in the era of social justice, and I sometimes think of this as the social justice era of the WWE. Now I don't watch the current wrestling product constantly, but I check on it from time to time, and the change within the company is pretty obvious. The women's revolution is perhaps the biggest part of the change. Women's wrestlers have been treated almost as the equals of their male counterparts, despite the fact that they aren't are strong, athletic, menacing, and they also don't draw as well. Black people are placed very highly on the SJW pedestal, and by Hogan saying what he said, you knew the reaction was going to be swift. The Ultimate Warrior said much worse things about gay people, and said them in public, and when asked about them, he defended what he said. While he faced backlash it was nowhere near what Hogan faced. Warrior was out of the fold with the WWE for a long time, but his anti gay rhetoric wasn't the reason. That was about a personal beef between him and Vince McMahon.
Now keep in mind that Hogan hasn't resigned with the WWE, and he hasn't made any on screen return to the company. He simply gave an apology backstage, and was reinstated into the Hall of Fame. These were baby steps. Yet that has offended quite a few people that don't think that he has done enough to show he has changed. Keep in mind that this is the biggest star in WWE, and probably wrestling history, and it took 3 years for them to reinstate him into their Hall of Fame, and almost as long for them to become comfortable acknowledging him. This is all for something he said in private 12 years ago. If anything this should show how much the company is willing to bend over backwards to not offend black people. There are black celebrities that routinely say worse things about white people and face very little backlash. Yet some people act as if the punishment he received was enough. How far do they want WWE to go?
