This is unfortunate. Gurriel's actions are awful, I think we can all agree, but they are also culturally specific. Conversations about race are different in different parts of the world, as anyone who has spent meaningful time abroad — almost anywhere — can attest. Most Latin players spend a better part of a decade in the States before we put them on TV, but Yuli Gurriel was basically transplanted from a different cultural context directly into the limelight.
It's hard to be a public figure in a culture you didn't grow up in. One reason is that you may have trouble navigating the boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable racism. It's pretty ludicrous for
Major League Baseball to suspend Gurriel for this while protecting this trademark:
I'd say both Gurriel's gesture and the Chief Wahoo team logo are equally racist, but MLB is looking at the speck in Gurriel's eye while disregarding the beam in their own.
Given Darvish's background and biography, he has acknowledged that he faced different kinds of racial prejudice since childhood. I'm not surprised that he's responded with such equanimity. As another transplant, he probably also has some sympathy for Gurriel being so obviously over his head.
edit: I should clarify. Manfred should suspend Gurriel for this. And then, when he's done doing that, he should tell the Indians that they have 18 months to stop using that logo or face league sanctions.
edit again: But he won't. Because he doesn't care about racism, he cares about
players embarrassing the owners, but not apparently about the owners embarrassing themselves.