Bring out the Dunking stool!
Used to be society decided, now it seems that it is the PC Media and their pals. So, yes it is a slippery slope coming your way.
Yes it is a slippery slope, with massive consequences. If we can end people’s ability to support themselves because they don’t support the fashionable views, none of us are safe.
Coming soon to the next NBA owner who dares say that he is for traditional marriage, his life will be over..yeah I said it and I guarantee you that will happen..so NBA owners must be scared to death right now
Does anyone find this ironic? Sterling’s girlfriend who secretly recorded his comments is friends with Magic Johnson. Johnson is singled out in Sterlings rant. Of the hundreds of players that Sterling knows, Magic is singled out, which obviously puts another nail in Sterlings ownership coffin. The NBA at the urging of Magic and his NBA brethren demand action. The NBA bans Sterling for life and will probably force him to sell or give up the team.
According to ESPN, Magic Johnson and his business partners most likely be the purchasers of The LA Clippers, which wouldn’t be up for purchase if Magic’s “friend” hadn’t recorded Sterlings racist comments. Hummmmmmmmmm
So, instead of wearing a scarlet A for being an adulterous piece of **** we’re going to do what to him?
Chances are future generations are going to look back on this strange pseudo-moralistic hysteria with much the same appreciation you have of witch trials.
***$2.5 million fine against Clippers owner Donald Sterling****
And if he don’t pay? Has the NBA got a hit squad of goons to enforce this fine?
Damn right its a slippery slope, but we’ve already seen it with Mozilla. Nowadays if your opinion contravenes liberal orthodoxy, you’re targeted for destruction. Its a shame when we had the position of social orthodoxy on various issues we didn’t crush the libs into the sand as soon as they popped their heads up, just as they now do.
Sterling’s comments were fairly vile, but he said them in private. Then I see O’Blowhard along with Christophobic pi55kidney Bernie Goldberg jumping all over the guy, saying its good old white people like this are dying, saying the ‘homophobes’ are next. (Fox is pretty much MSLSD nowadays). I can only shake my head.
More coverage of what this guy said behind closed doors than the dead folks down in Tennessee and Mississippi. Tells you a lot.
Slippery slope:
Someone turns on their recorder in the locker room. If you thought the Clipper’s owner said something offensive...
I don’t follow the NBA and had never heard of Sterling until this came out. Frankly he sounds like a dirtbag. I don’t give a damn for him as a person, but I do think he is entitled not to have private remarks illegally recorded and used against him. If that is allowed, then it can be used against anyone. It doesn’t seem to matter to those meting out this punishment how this information about Sterling came to light. It also doesn’t seem to matter that the punishment is way beyond the “ crime.”. He evidently has a reputation for being negative toward racial minorities, and I find it hard to believe that his fellow owners and others in the NBA didn’t know about it. They probably wanted to put as much distance between themselves and Sterling and they figured they had to destroy him to do it. That is troublng in a supposedly free and fair society as well.
When I was growing up and in my early adulthood, I thought this was a great country because one could be free to think or say whatever they wanted. If it was not socially acceptable, outcomes would take care of themselves.
Interesting...a stupid racist comment made in private has the media all over it, but let people get murdered in Benghazi by a President they adore and...crickets...
It will be a great precedent for NBA race relations.
Now every Gold Digger trolling for B- Ball Jock cash has suddenly discover that she does even have to get knocked up to cash in.
All she needs to do is carry and iPhone and hit record when one of the great scholars and humanitarians of the NBA goes on a drug or booze fueled rant about their love for members of the Caucasian, Asian or Hispanic race.
(imho) the slope has become slippery because there currently exists within the population a segment that is crying out for more blood to be placed on the slope. As the slope becomes wetter with the blood spilled a vacuum is generated. Wherever there is a vacuum, dirt arrives in said vacuum to place infection into the blood. The media saying of ... If it bleeds, it leads .... applies well to our current visual of the prep work being done to increase the bleeding courtesy of those pushing ‘forward’ the mantra (imho).
It all depends on who you are..and how you are connected.
The whole thing sounds like a setup. The mistress has 5 different alias. The only people with multiple identities are either CIA or con artists. She has some serious baggage and now she wont talk to the media or the NBA to confirm the authenticity of the tape. The NBA can’t even do an investigation but they plan on fining him.
This mans entire life, everything he has built is being destroyed over a private conversation. Whats worse, the people getting the most upset likely wouldn’t want people close to them dating outside their race. Blacks aren’t known for accepting their people dating whites. Ask any Asian, particularly Vietnamese, how they feel about their people dating white folks. Its frowned on. Same with Koreans and Indians. I grew up with an Indian girl who had to hide her relationships from her father. She dated a white guy 5 years in college and kept it secret. Where’s the outrage on against them for their racism? My Indian friend even had to date the same social class, Doctor or Lawyer or her parents would disown her.
Touré Beclowns Himself – Compares Fracking To… Racism? (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/04/toure-beclowns-himself-compares-fracking-to-racism-video/
Since it’s not the government doling out the “punishment”, there is little that can be said or done legally as far as I can see.
However, such actions cut in both directions, and such standards can be held to either “side”. Just as we can boycott those who we disagree with and those who speak atrocities that we condemn, so may they.
This isn’t a one way street. What standards we hold in one case must be accepted in the opposite, no matter how distasteful, otherwise we are hypocrites.