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Yes. I think you have a right to be a racist. It depends how you mean punishment, do you believe someone has a right to be antiAmerican and not be punished?
All this media blitz on Bundy and The basketball guy has me wondering if we now have thought police in this country. I'm not racist myself but I don't see what the big deal is if you are. We have laws to protect people from racism so your opinion should be a right and you should not be punished for what you believe. IMO firing someone for being a racist is anti American and flies in the face of free speech.
But if she did this because she is a 'proud woman of color', she is as racist as he is.
Nobody convicted Bundy, the racist asshole, except Bundy himself. The federal courts found him guilty of grazing without paying ...but he wasn't convicted of anything.Bundy doesn't deserve to lose his claimed right to land based on his beliefs. The owner of the Clippers does. The difference is the NBA has a code of conduct. Just like the employer I have can tell me how to dreaa and behave while I am on the clock, the NBA can tell owners how to behave as part of their participation in the league. But, Bundy is being "convicted" for beliefs that had no bearing on land management jurisdiction.
Nobody convicted Bundy, the racist asshole, except Bundy himself. The federal courts found him guilty of grazing without paying ...but he wasn't convicted of anything.
His political supporters abandoned him because he decided to volunteer the fact that he was a racist asshole, to the world.
Nothing can make a political cause more toxic that a revelation that the main player in that cause is a racist asshole.
Point one out.Are you going for Guinness World Record for the most contradictions in a sentence fragment?
WTF? How could you arrive at that ass-backwards conclusion?
Is everyone who outs a racist asshole for what they are a racist?
That is inside out crazy thinking.
What if he was a sexist woman hater and his girlfriend reported that to the press...Would that, somehow in your backwards thinking mind, make her a misogynist?
"Nobody convicted Bundy," contradicts "the racist asshole," as it is your own personal conviction.
"Nobody convicted Bundy," contradicts "The federal courts found him guilty of grazing without paying " contradicts "...but he wasn't convicted of anything."
It is your right to be a racist, sub human, idiotic, asshole, dickheaded, stupid, moron, retarded, jerk ...if you so choose to be.
But know this ... All those adjectives go inseparably together with that right.
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...AND, this who you are identifying with.
i pointed out that she is a woman of color because she would be even more likely to be offended by a racist asshole, perhaps,than one who was not.If she tried to destroy him because she is a woman of color, and for no other reason than she is a woman of color, that would make her a racist.
Sorry no, racial prejudice is in a class of it's own. Racial prejudice held by an owner of a team in the NBA is probably unique.There's nothing wrong with prejudice, it only becomes wrong when it results in discrimination in my opinion. I would go so far as to say everyone is prejudiced in some way or another (doesn't even have to be against a particular race, it can be against a social class, religion, etc.). I have huge doubts that there is a single person on this Earth who has absolutely NO prejudice whatsoever. I simply believe as a human community we need to reflect on ourselves and keep our fellow humans in check so that this prejudice is monitored and doesn't result in anything dangerous.
Sorry no, racial prejudice is in a class of it's own. Racial prejudice held by an owner of a team in the NBA is probably unique.
The argument that everyone is a little bit evil so therefore evil is OK does not hold much water.
IMHO talking racism is racism in action.No, my argument was that everyone is evil and it is ok AS LONG AS SUCH EVIL IS NOT ACTED UPON (this can even be in the form of simply saying something prejudiced although that's a little light in my eyes compared to actively physically harming someone out of prejudice).
What you posted was only a fragment of my argument.
IMHO talking racism is racism in action.
Those who act as a racist in more overt ways started out talking racism .
Of course we can not act on what a person thinks.Yes, I did acknowledge that speaking racism is an issue that may be (and in most cases is) considered discrimination. I'm simply saying that people do have a right to be prejudiced in any way shape or form, they simply do not have the right to act upon that prejudice (which is when prejudice becomes discrimination).
Of course we can not act on what a person thinks.
But when they start talking racism they have crossed a bold line.
i pointed out that she is a woman of color because she would be even more likely to be offended by a racist asshole, perhaps,than one who was not.
Does that make her a racist? No.
I would say that Sterling destroyed himself, when he expressed to anyone words that he should have known would destroy him.
BTW Sterling has not been "destroyed" ...He is still a billionaire... net worth 1.9 billion USD.
You are too funny. But not in a laugh with YOU funny kinda way. Nope . . . it's a LAUGH AT YOU kind of funny. I asked you 4-questions . . . answer one. Never mind, it would defeat the whole purpose of your thread. You are by far the least original . .. non-thinking/non-reading member of the forum. So, how did that work out for you Sparky?
I truly gasp at the message you and your ilk try to pass along. You give me COPD . . . I hope OBAMACARE takes care of me. It's surely taking care of you unless you are a liar.
Bundy doesn't deserve to lose his claimed right to land based on his beliefs. The owner of the Clippers does. The difference is the NBA has a code of conduct. Just like the employer I have can tell me how to dreaa and behave while I am on the clock, the NBA can tell owners how to behave as part of their participation in the league. But, Bundy is being "convicted" for beliefs that had no bearing on land management jurisdiction.
No matter whether or not she was offended, if her being black is the reason she ratted him out, that makes her a racist. That would assume her seeing herself as being black gives her some kind of license that a non-black person would not have. And whether or not she was able to 'destroy him', she had to be willing to hurt him as much as she possibly could to do what she did. There are a lot of things somebody could do to me that would be more devastating than taking away all my money.
You libs are nothing if not predictable. When you lose honest debate, which you always do, you start the personal insults. YAAAAWN
EDIT: You know I was thinking, there should be a special forum for special people that can't hold a respectful intelligent conversation and have no arrows in their quiver except talking trash. I wonder what they could call that place.:lol:
He calls anyone who doesn't agree with him a "fascist moron" and then scolds us for "not holding a respectful intelligent conversation".:lamoThe only thing you got right in this reply was that I personally insulted you. Do you still believe that the NBA owners are fascist morons for protecting their brand by demanding punishment?
The only thing you got right in this reply was that I personally insulted you. Do you still believe that the NBA owners are fascist morons for protecting their brand by demanding punishment?
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