Posted on 11/11/2013 2:30:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
For the past week, Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito has been at the epicenter of a firestorm that involves racial implications, and hazing and bullying allegations from his own teammate, Jonathan Martin, who left the team on Oct. 28.
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At about 6:00 in, the comment is made that a "white man" cannot use the "n" word...of course, later it is noted that men of ALL races in the locker room....
Of course, it is also revealed that Jonathan Martin texted Icognito "I will murder your whole f****** family."
I am sick of the double standard regarding language.
I haven't watched much of the NFL in the last two or three years, so it cannot effect my viewing habits, but it just reaffirms in my mind the hypocrisy of the modern day mindset.
Incognito wasn't asked in this interview about extorting $15K from the rookie Martin either.
Frankly, neither one of these athletes is coming off as a hero.
Your last line probably tells everything...none of these guys is a hero
Though I am surprised that the media has treated Icognito as lightly as they have. Maybe Jonathan Martin is not Trayvon Martin....JMart is light skinned black and his family is educated...heck Icognito is the Ghetto Thug of the two.
That text Martin supposedly sent was a funny meme...something you would find on some threads of FR
Tolerance Sucks Rocks: "I am not a nerd."
Pope Francis: "I am not a Catholic."
It’s all nonsense. These are 250 lb. + guys. Why couldn’t they just duke it out in a parking lot? That’s what men do.
The military has been emasculated. I guess the disease has infected the NFL too.
He wasn’t sufficiently persuasive...
shoulda said, “I am not a racist. Period.”
Then, masses of stupid ignorant people would vote for him. For president. Of the world.
I am not white.....opps..
that involves racial implications
And we care why?
Not a racist... just a big stupid child.
Because they're professional athletes, their very lucrative careers depend on keeping their bodies in good working order, and a physical fight over a personal grudge is one of the best ways to get team management to come down on them like a great big hammer.
So, practical reasons.
Only then will he be allowed to return to his multi-million dollar day job.
Not even then. See John Rocker.
“at the epicenter of a firestorm”
A firestorm? Really? Not sure I’d go that far. Anyone who doesnt watch the nfl probably knows nothing about it.
“A firestorm? Really? Not sure I’d go that far. Anyone who doesnt watch the nfl probably knows nothing about it.”
Yes. A firestorm of ridiculous proportion. It’s been all over CNN, Fox, the View and every alphabet channel. Perhaps you are a smart one who threw out their TV’s?
It’s interesting, but not surprising, that 99% of the media interest boils down to ‘did he or didn’t he use the n-word.’
While racial slurs are to be discouraged, mostly because they show a deficit of originality and a meager vocabulary, the creation and constant promotion of certain taboo words is consistent with illiterate medieval societies, not a 21st century information-age one.
Those who think such words are hurtful, mean, etc. miss the point as usual. By banning even the spelling out of such words (more taboo), a Kafkaesque system of crime-and-punishment outside the written law is established where the media and leftists (possibly redundant) are judge, jury and executioner. ‘You can’t say that’ is obviously in direct conflict with the First Amendment but how often do we hear such admonishment, especially from so-called educators who have abandoned love of learning and expansion of knowledge and instead spend 13+ years delivering and reinforcing a rigid system of thought that not only rejects but seeks to avenge any transgression against orthodoxy?
To have the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Mike Lupica, or Tony Kornheiser sit in judgment of anyone for any reason is farcical, even dangerous.
Social disapproval (e.g. of certain profane terms) and quasi-official censure via the loss of income, position and even being hounded from one’s home are very different things. Smug liberals who view Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (or even religion as a whole) as backward and superstitious are incapable of introspection. They fail to see that they are fully committed to the persecution and shunning of anyone violating their (ever-shifting) code.
And so, while media coverage of wife-beaters, drunk drivers, thieves and other petty criminals and accessories to murder is extensive, these players are welcomed back to teams or sign new contracts as long as they are able to play. Some even join TV networks (the mind boggles) with various mouthpieces claiming they are changed men. Meanwhile, anyone who has done nothing more than say the wrong word is hauled up and portrayed as the greatest threat to society.
Surreal.
I have the same comment for this as I do for anyone who is foolish enough to put anything of a personal, less-than-generic situation into any form of technology. They should be fired for stupidity...all of them....generals, politicians, movie stars, sports figures, teachers....gone. If they don’t know better by now, they never will.
Incognito ! A side issue driven by the MSM which claims only whites are racist but not the blacks killing whites and hispanics every other day. Let alone connect the dots to the racist war decalred to the regime as the cause.
Richie might not be a racist, but he’s DEFINITELY a douche. Really of all the things he said and did his n-bombs are probably the least offensive.
Not that there's anything wrong with that... (couldn't resist Seinfeld reference).
“I haven’t watched much of the NFL in the last two or three years, so it cannot effect my viewing habits, but it just reaffirms in my mind the hypocrisy of the modern day mindset.”
The NFL would like nothing better than a rotating series of racist thug stories for the media to concentrate on, whether it is actual racism or not, doesn’t really matter. Absolutely anything but stories about brain injury and the ridiculous lack of HGH testing are more than welcomed, in my opinion.
FReegards
NFL players are never forced to grow up. They go from school boys to millionaires overnight. I was always struck by the school bus jock mentality of grown men. Incognito defines it.
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