Posted on 04/30/2014 3:10:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(CNN) -- This past week, my inbox blew up with e-mails asking whether Donald Sterling's First Amendment rights were violated in the uproar over the Los Angeles Clippers owner's racist remarks about black people. After all, he was simply expressing his views, however unpopular.
While he did have some rights violated, his First Amendment rights remain intact.
The First Amendment protects you from the government punishing you because of your speech. The NBA is a private club, and it can discipline Sterling all it wants.
What about the chorus of criticism? Are we all violating his First Amendment rights by criticizing him? We are punishing him for his speech.
Nope. The First Amendment does not insulate you from criticism. In fact, that's the First Amendment in action. That is how the marketplace of ideas works. We float our ideas in the marketplace, and we see which idea sells.
Most everyone would agree that Sterling's ideas fail in the marketplace of ideas. Nevertheless, I reluctantly stand on Sterling's side today. What happened to him may have been illegal and was morally wrong.
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Listen up, Brooklyn Attitude!
I was born on DeKalb Avenue. My mother was a Dodgers fan, my father was a Giants fan. The idea that following, never mind rooting for, the freaking YANKEES is part of a Brooklyn attitude is, well - fuhgeddaboutit.
“I was born on DeKalb Avenue. My mother was a Dodgers fan, my father was a Giants fan. The idea that following, never mind rooting for, the freaking YANKEES is part of a Brooklyn attitude is, well - fuhgeddaboutit.”
Sorry about your dysfunctional family, but there is still time to correct your mistakes and become Yankee fans. :-)
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