Posted on 09/10/2014 4:40:58 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
Ray Rice has been fired from the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL. Why? That’s the million dollar question at this point. It seems to be more about political correctness and caving to political lobby’s than anything else. We’ve known for months that Rice beat up his then fiancee and knocked her unconscious. This fact resulted in a minor criminal case and a two game suspension from the NFL. Earlier this week gossip site TMZ got hold of the closed circuit video of the attack and now ESPN’s hoard of commentators is completely outraged, Rice has been fired and suspended.
There is no doubt that what he did was evil. It’s an outrage whenever a man hits a woman. Having said that though, we learned absolutely nothing new about this incident this week. Everyone knew he popped his fiancee one and knocked her out. The video doesn’t change that, it only confirms what we imagine likely happened. Honestly, did you imagine the attack would be less gruesome than the video depicts? All the outrage from the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL is absurd, they had a pretty good idea what it would take for one of their players to knock a woman out cold.
There is another side to this story. This woman married Ray Rice after the incident. Why should the public, sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL be more outraged about the attack than she is? This is an important point. Rice’s fiancee, who he beat up into an unconscious state married him after the incident. If she was truly afraid of Rice, she had every opportunity to get away. After domestic violence incidents the courts always issue a protective order forbidding contact with the victim. This was a public incident, she could have easily escaped. Instead not only did she choose to marry Ray Rice, she lobbied NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for a lenient punishment. How exactly does video of the incident change her actions?
The answer of course is that ESPN is fueling the “I’m more outraged than you are” environment that has come to dominate sports commentary these days. Sports used to represent an escape from politics and the drudgery of daily life. The leftists at ESPN have turned it into another vehicle to push what one Sportscenter talking head last night called “social consciousness.” Thus there is a racial element to almost every interaction between races on ESPN, feminism is pushed hard, homosexuals are exulted and everyone tries to be the most outraged.
Make no mistake, what Ray Rice did was absolutely evil. The issue here isn’t so much what Ray Rice did but the reaction of the sports media and NFL. Everything we knew about the incident was known shortly after it happened. There is nothing in the recently leaked video that’s particularly shocking in light of what we already knew. The reaction by the sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL is over the top and so full of phony outrage. We learned absolutely nothing new. At the end of the day, if the woman who got beat up isn’t bothered enough to not marry Ray Rice, why should any of us care about what happened? If she’s forgiven him, why shouldn’t we accept that and move on video or no video? We’ve reached the point in society where thinking is no longer required. Feeling and emotional reactions are all that count. We’ve seen that on full display this week.
What if she’s beating you over the head with her Obamaphone?
Geez, fslling = falling above. My cataracts are getting worse and I can’t see well anymore.
Yes. The media have acted as if it is their "white man's burden" to take care of this helpless black woman.
Feminists demand to be treated like men, as if there is no difference between the sexes (and in the case of radical feminists it is truly difficult to see the difference). However the second you treat them as equal they whine and complain about being mistreated.
If Ray Rice was engaged to Michael Sam and they had this spat nobody would care. But sine he hit a WOMAN, there will be Hell to pay.
Hypocrisy is the trademark of liberals and feminists. Give them what they demand and they cry foul.
This conduct by thug NFL’ers has been going on for years with nary a word of objection from the NFL.
As a woman and a football fanatic (Go Chiefs!) I’m not so much outraged at the NFL as I am for the Atlantic City Police for not filing charges against him.
This is exactly the same thing as the uproar over "sexual assaults" in college housing or the military (except for the sociology).
Market thuggery for billions? Guess what? You get thugs.
Mix the sexes in living quarters, put them under real (military) or imagined (college) pressure, add alcohol and drugs (college) or command influence (military). Guess what? You get sex.
This nation's average voter is living so far away from reality, it's a miracle we haven't collapsed yet.
Then it becomes self-defense, or defense of the innocent. What occurred here, though, was neither.
Ridiculous.
Common assault. 60 days in county and an apology.
On the "absolutely evil" scale, it's pretty far down. Maybe even further down than hooking up with a common thug because he's worth $25 million.
You said “Why should the public, sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL be more outraged about the attack than she is?”
Here’s why: Just because his idiot wife is willing to put up with being knocked unconscious now and then, doesn’t mean society should allow it. This was an assault that rightfully resulted in his ejection from the NFL.
I don’t think it’s too much to expect our sports heroes to rein in their basest inclinations, just like the rest of us, and I’m really surprised at those trying to minimize his behavior.
You said “Why should the public, sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL be more outraged about the attack than she is?”
Here’s why: Just because his idiot wife is willing to put up with being knocked unconscious now and then, doesn’t mean society should allow it. This was an assault that rightfully resulted in his ejection from the NFL.
I don’t think it’s too much to expect our sports heroes to rein in their basest inclinations, just like the rest of us, and I’m really surprised at those trying to minimize his behavior.
Feminists want to be treated equally when it benefits them, but they want to be treated differently when it benefits them.
The way I see it, nobody should ever punch someone in the face like that no matter what, man or woman.
I agree a man shouldn’t hit a woman. My issue is that there just isn’t anything new here. We knew he knocked his then fiancee out. The video doesn’t change anything. How did people think a big NFL football player punching a girl was going to look?
Come to think if it, I’d love to send some of our reprobate Sports journalists to Syria to cover the next ISIS beheading from a first hand perspective.
Really?
Better pack a lunch.
He has no concept of the nature of abusive relationships. Good idea to wait for the beer to wear off before writing a blog post.
I'd shoot her, of course.
Dumb example.
What Rice did was appalling. This was supposedly a person he loved.
That said, there was a conversation between Rush Limbaugh and a caller yesterday in which images portrayed on TV was the topic. I think it was Rush who, obviously in jest, mentioned 5’4” women constantly beating up men on TV, something I have noticed for years. I also notice a recent influx of women minimizing men’s private parts on these shows; not to be vulgar, I’ll simply say cutting off or kicking the lower part of that area has been followed by laugh tracks in TV shows (acting on that thought would be assault). We have raised a generation of women not to respect men through the images displayed via liberal Hollywood and oftentimes the confrontation escalates with physical confrontation in real life which isn’t scripted. Vulgarity is commonplace in our society. Liberalism is the primary cause.
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