Eh... you're the one who gets sexually excited about LeBron. Don't project your sick fantasies onto me.
Thanks captain obvious, of course i know that. But that doesn t make it less hypocritical. The notion of offense is evolving and sterling grew up in a world in which racism was almost natural. So, i can t blame the bloke.
You re wrong. If you re raised to think that black people are just slaves, that all your life, people around you told you it s ok to have slaves, it s understandable that your view is biased. It s not that easy to challenge your values.
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
It isn't hypcritical, it's just how it works (why do you even name Freedom of Speech anyway then). And Moa already explained nicely how a public figure should act, regardless of his age.
you're missing the point. He wanna be racist fine by him. people have problem with the fact that he's a public figure, in a league where 80% of players are black and he's an owner. tolerance goes both way doesn't mean you gotta tolerate a racist owner who think of his team as nothing but modern black slave? you're not making much sense here.
He's not just a public figure, but an authority figure. He has final authority over hiring and firing at all levels, from management down to players. He is also a billionaire real estate tycoon. He has been sued for alleged discrimination in apartment buildings he owns. Sterling settled out of court, before going to trial, so it's hard to know exactly how much is true. There really is no use for racism, but racism from a landlord and real estate owner effects other people. It is not the harmless opinion of one out of touch old man.
Freedom is not an excuse to say or do whatever you'd like. That is not freedom, it is irresponsibility. "My right to swing my arm ends at your nose." Your rights are limited by my rights. The role of the government is to balance those rights, when they come into conflict. Racism is not protected speech. The law does not recognize the right to racism. The tapes TMZ published are not in violation of the law. Nothing Donald Sterling said was prosecutable. Racist renting policy is prosecutable, but he avoided that by settling out of court. Sterling's actions should be held in contempt. If the allegations are true he should be forced to sell. These tapes rightfully open Sterling up to suit, or prosecution, for racist hiring or firing practice as an owner. The NBA would be found liable if one of their owners was found guilty of discrimination, or settled out of court.
banned for life is the highest punishment for Sterling. that mean he can't do anything related to the team, to the player or to the nba now. he can't even show up at practice and games. that make him a kind of "only on paper and with 0 power" owner now. he doesn't wanna sell but with a 3/4 vote of the owners they can remove him as an owner and Silver already have the support of 16 owners. So yeah you can already consider Sterling done and gone. Only a matter of time.
Yeah, I know. But I didn't know how the vote would go. Not sure I see much of a justification for voting against it, but I'm not an owner...so
Oh well, hopefully there's next year once we get Rose and hopefully, Mirotic and Melo. We still did well when people wrote us off without Rose and when we lost Deng.
Goddammit, Bulls.
