Morally wrong. Yet clearly Sterling is - to coin a cute phrase - a sterling example someone who is morally wrong. So. Do two moral wrongs make a right?
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No, but three thefts do. :{)
Depends.... if he was recorded in California then the state law will dictate secret recording and realize of same.
This isn’t a logic problem nor a math equation.....both sides can be wrong.
The NBA is a private club, and it can discipline Sterling all it wants. ...Heh.What happened to him may have been illegal ...
Well the queers got a scalp from the Mozilla guy, so now the blacks get a scalp. Equilibrium in the world of PC victinhood has been restored!
This whole drama is bizarre.
He’s supposedly racist but has a black/Hispanic mistress? He says he loves black people but doesn’t want his mistress seen with them although she can private do whatever with minorities.
This is, to me, a sad demented elderly human being that should have known better but didn’t.
If this is the set up to force him to sell an improving team at fire sale prices, as a FRiend recently put it, “Well played.”
To quote Deteriorata:
“Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.”
It’s all worth it if it opens up a team for minority ownership. /SARC
Is it right to treat someone immorally if he is immoral? It certainly is far easier to rationalize why Sterling should be punished for his private opinions surreptitiously obtained. Aside from his words, what did he do wrong? Shouldn't actions be the metric and not an opinion expressed in private?
“The NBA is a private club”
How much must something be subsidized before its considered ‘not a private club’.
Yeah, especially with all those non-bigoted, moral choirboys playing in the NBA
A boy in school recorded some other boys bullying him. When he too the recording to the Principle he got kicked out of school. The liberals are ruled by hate not law.
Praise for a whining sniveling Commissioner that saw his 60 mins of fame! The convo was a personal one and did not involve any player or member of the Clipper Team or Staff! A leak from a Gold Digger involved with an adversary of a man who owns a major business and was not intended to be publicized!
One paragraph of private convo is to take a man down and virtually ruin his livelihood! Silver is wrong and I hope Sterling sues the hell out of the NBA and Wins! Obama to Russians “After the Election I will have more Flexibility!”
Look at the Ukraine could that be misconstrued as do as you wish to a nation and it’s population!
Sterling’s ideas fail in the marketplace of ideas
Maybe. But, the ‘Market Place of Ideas” is infinite in its depth and breadth. The ‘Vast Majority’, usually WRONG, determines which idea becomes the ‘accepted norm’.
Does this mean that ALL other ideas, and those beholden to them, should be crucified, fined, impoverished ?
Tolerance used to be an American Ideal.
The Republic is (fill in the blank)...
Vox Populi
We’ve entered an era where people are now being punished for “wrong thinking”. I don’t care if someone’s thoughts are wrong, I care about his actions. And he did nothing that was wrong, morally or otherwise.
Randazza is full of crap when he attacks Cliven Bundy.
I fully agree with those who think racism is wrong, but expressing it in a private conversation should NOT lead to punishment.
The investigators likely did not look very far to see if he was goaded or led into making these statements, and it appears to me that the NBA was quick to pacify the angry mob of Al Sharpton followers and the players, who were RIGHTFULLY upset over the bigotry.
Yet being UPSET should not give you the power to demand someone’s head on a platter.
Ridiculous.
I won’t even bother going through the bigoted and racist statements made by LIBERALS that have been forgiven-—and not a single penalty was heaped upon them. Now, suddenly, this man loses a BUSINESS he LAWFULLY OWNS?
INsane.
As far as Sterling's morality, as far as this conversation goes, as if it was anyone else's business, if you read the transcript of the conversation, he says a whole lot of things, even "I love blacks."
This whole thing is stupid. The girl should be reprimanded for publicizing a private conversation. We all know that private conversations, especially between people intimate with each other, have nuances and meaning others may know nothing of. Too many, too quickly jumping on the anger-and-guilt-ridden, self-righteousness MSM kangaroo court band wagon.
It was wrong since the vast majority of the players are racist too.