Posted on 05/05/2014 9:31:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
A $2.5 million fine, a lifetime ban from the NBA and potential confiscation of his personal property through the forced sale of the L.A. Clippers? Are you kidding? That’s it? Donald Sterling is a racist pig. “First stone” first shmone. This thing ain’t over by a long shot.
As CBS reports, “Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban from the NBA isn’t enough, NAACP says.” Al Sharpton agrees, adding, “No one should be allowed to own a team if they have in fact engaged in this kind of racial language.” Sharpton warns that he is “prepared … to rally in front of the NBA headquarters if this matter is not immediately dealt with.”
Sharpton says that a racist bigot like Sterling shouldn’t “be allowed to own a team.” Let’s take Sharpton’s demand to its reasonable and logical end. Should anyone with any unpopular or otherwise politically incorrect opinion whatsoever be allowed to own anything?
Just ask them. The “progressive” power class alone is qualified to make that call. And they have. The answer is an unequivocal “no.” Not in today’s Amerika at least. We’ve progressed way beyond that.
Furthermore, since under the Obama administration and AG Eric Holder we’ve officially abandoned such antiquated concepts as “the binding contract,” “due process” and “the law,” I say, why stop there? Political correctness is today’s Pièce de résistance and properly trumps all.
Civil rights attorney Brian Claypool agrees. USA Today reports that he’s “disappointed that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, in response to a question, said the ban from participating in any NBA or Clippers activities does not apply to other members of the Sterling family.”
“‘What’s to prevent his wife from buying the team?’ Claypool said. ‘I’m truly troubled by that. … He (Silver) should have placed a prohibition on any member of the Sterling family being a part of any new ownership.’”
Uh, yeah.
But, again, why stop there? I mean, shouldn’t Donald Sterling really be flayed alive?
Bear with me. It only makes sense. Xfinity’s “On Demand” can air the flaying with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton playing host. All proceeds can be donated to the NAACP, Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign in equally divided shares.
How else can we really make an example of a racist billionaire fat cat for exercising his First Amendment right to say stupid and repugnant things in a private conversation with his trollopy mistress?
Oh, sure, the trollop in question, V. “Barbie” Stiviano, overtly broke California’s wiretapping laws by furtively recording the private conversation, but, hey, this is 2014 and Obama has finally ushered in the age of lawlessness.
When the delicious spectacle of a 24/7 tar-and-feathering is at stake, the “fruit of the poisonous tree” is just way too sweet to pass up. Is the recording admissible in any court of law? Well, no, but it’s sure as heck admissible in the court of public opinion, illegally obtained or not.
But, once again I ask, why stop there? What about all those reality-based “homophobic” bigots – you know, half of America and most of the world – who stubbornly insist that marriage, by definition, is, always has been and always will be the binary coupling of man and wife? Isn’t it time they, too, are drummed out of society and packed into boxcars?
Darn skippy.
Fascism is not for the squeamish or half-hearted. “Progressive” means “forward” and forward means, “This is an entirely new world, and if we’re going to step into it, let’s step all the way into it.”
So says Esquire political blogger Charlie Pierce. In a recent appearance on “PBS NewsHour,” he implied that the NBA should next move to confiscate the Orlando Magic from Dick and Betsy DeVos, Christian philanthropists and Amway heirs who, in the past, have supported maintaining the definition of natural marriage.
Bigots.
Said Pierce: “On another venture, what does Adam Silver now do, for example, with the DeVos family in Orlando, which funds ‘anti-gay’ candidates and ‘anti-gay’ issue ads all over the country, as well as owning the Orlando Magic? Does he talk to them? This is an entirely new world, and if we’re going to step into it, let’s step all the way into it.”
I think Pierce meant to say, “This is a brave new world,” but you get the idea.
Crushing dissent and terrorizing into silence those with traditional values is no small task. Serving up a palatable fascism cocktail cannot be effectively accomplished without following a specific recipe.
First, start with genuinely hateful and racist remarks by people like Sterling. Totally destroy them both publicly and privately and then move on to those with mainstream beliefs on such things as sexual morality and marriage. Next, disingenuously equate the two, add three cups of fascism, a dash of anti-Christian hate, whip to a frenzy and voila!
It’s a cultural Marxist paradise.
Mozilla, anyone?
Still, none of this can be accomplished without the aid of Amerikan Pravda. CNN’s Rachel Nichols gave a “how to” workshop on Wednesday:
“In the NBA you have an owner in Orlando, Rich DeVos, who’s made very unpopular statements [unpopular with whom?]. He’s campaigned against gay rights. He says that gay people should stop asking for special treatment because they want to get married,” Nichols opined. “There are a lot of people in this country who think that that is a problem [there are an equal number who don't], and I think that there is gonna be more and more attention paid to what these owners think. It’s not just the players in the spotlight now, it’s not just management. They’re accountable, too.”
Atta girl! It’s high time Christians and conservatives were held “accountable” for “what they think.”
Thought control is as American as Apfelstrudel!
And what about man-made global warming deniers, capitalists, so-called “pro-lifers” and generally anyone who watches the Fox News Channel? Why do they still have jobs?
I know, I know. Patience.
Barack Obama once said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. …
“It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Or was that Josef Goebbels?
Oh well, six of one …
I agree it would be his problem,but he might be rich enough and mean enough not to care.
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He is part of an organization...not like an completely independent business man . If the NBA had allowed him to stay with his views, it would hurt the entire brand. Why don’t you learn to debate without calling someone nuts for a reasonable view? So many conservatives here really lack debating skills and use bombastic terms to make up for that lack.
I didn’t call “someone” nuts, I said “anyone”. It was not intended to be personal. However, if the shoe fits, as they say... I’m not interested in debating this foolishness and that’s all it is, foolishness. With all the real crises in our nation today this is the most important topic people can choose to argue over?
If the NBA had allowed him to stay with his views, it would hurt the entire brand.
...come now...if every sports league that ever existed decided to eject every miscreant owner that has ever sullied that league’s good name, a revolving door would be necessary...many owners have run their teams into the ground with lousy management, thus creating a perception and financial drain on the league, and none have been subjected to public humiliation over it...
...face it...this situation arises purely from the ox who’s getting gored being a favorite ox of the social elite caste...or do you suppose that some black owner suggesting, in the privacy of his own home, whites be kept from attending his arena would be similarly reviled in the public eye...?
...if so, you would be supposing incorrectly...
You know..I hear right wing commentators such as the dimwit Jesse Peterson complain that their is hypocracy here for various reasons..or this is feeding into the Jesse. Jackson types. Well, I don’t think that is avoidable, but totally off the point that that man holds racist views against his own team members and racism is a lot different than mismanagment for heaven sakes!
Oh, now you are not interested. Ok. You were interested enough to comment, but not now...whatever. And you really did call me nuts because obviously my opinion is that the NBA did the right thing. Now you are trying to back away from that that you insinuated at me. It is fine, I was not offended at all...I just think you are wrong.
How else can we really make an example of a racist billionaire fat cat for exercising his First Amendment right to say stupid and repugnant things in a private conversation with his trollopy mistress?
Well, there's always burning alive. And you could sauce it up by hanging him in chains, and then setting fire to him while he's still kicking. That would be phun. Morally edifying, too. Even Rush would be impressed by what awaits him.
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OK, fine. You want me to admit I’m interested, sure I am, interested in how people can be so easily side-tracked from matters of real importance to something that shouldn’t rate a page 3 mention in the National Enquirer. If you wish to take it as personal thats up to you. You seem a little thin-skinned to me. (30)
How many people died because of Mr. Sterlings bigoted comments?
How many people died because of Mr. Sharptons bigoted comments? (Think Freddie's Fashion Mart in New York)
Final score:
Sterling 0
Sharpton 7
not at all...and I do agree, it matters very little in reality...we have world war 3 about to be launched.
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