Posted on 04/29/2014 8:03:13 PM PDT by absentee
In today's press conference covering the lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine against Clippers owner Donald Sterling over his racist remarks, a Fox News' The Kelly File reporter asked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver if he was on a "slippery slope."
“Should someone lose their team for remarks shared in private? Is this a slippery slope?”
Jovian Lien is not the first person to raise the question of freedom of speech in the handing down of punishment against Sterling. On Monday, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban asked the same essential question, also using the phrase "slippery slope."
"I think there's a constitution for a reason, right? Because this is a very slippery slope," said Cuban. "What Donald said was wrong. It was abhorrent. There's no place for racism in the NBA, any business I'm associated with, and I don't want to be associated with people who have that position." He added "I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope."
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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
Yep.
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.
“If we can end people’s ability to support themselves because they don’t support the fashionable views, none of us are safe.”
Spot on.
It will depend from year to year and day to day as to exactly what views are fashionable.
One day in the near future it may not be fashionable to support gay marriage or codemn a businessman for expressing his view on who does not want to come to his business.
And then what are the liberals going to do when they object to the decisions of a private organization like the NBA?
***$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.
What are we? Children?
Slippery slope:
Someone turns on their recorder in the locker room. If you thought the Clipper’s owner said something offensive...
You noticed that too.
Same with Beck. I lost a lot of respect for him when he threw Bundy under the bus.
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.
Pfft, i knew Beck was a fraud when he uttered the words “i stand with GLAAD”. Fox has just gone from being pretty bad to total armpit in a matter of months.
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