There is no doubt this is a slippery slope.
Who hasn’t said something privately he/she wouldn’t want broadcast to the whole world to ruin your life?
I don’t have racial hang-ups myself, but if the whole world could hear me off the record talking about other things I’d be pretty much toast lol.
A silly,stupid,(perhaps even lonely, but really a jerk,)old fool. Was being serviced by a young female gold digger who was in turn being was being serviced by much youger black bucks at his expence which she paraded in front of him. Just to piss him off. Somehow after speaking with her lawyer sets up a situation where the dotting dupe seeing what little loyalty to him he expected from her being destroyed. Vents his frustration over a taped phone conversation that suddenly gets made public.
Hey, in 20 years a person might lose everything for saying something bad about a Tea Party person.
We are capable of having thin skins too....
Sports leagues are closed communities in which participants sign on to the rules of operation. Sterling signed on to those rules. He’s got every right to challenge the rules, but if those rules prevail, then we come back to: Sterling signed on to the rules.
I don’t see it as any different than signing on to the rules of any private organization. I don’t see it as a matter of “rights”.