reclegend22
Posts: 8,772
May 1, 2014 1:30pm
Personally, I am pulling for Sterling to somehow transfer the team to a family member. Watching the ensuing media and NBA player firestorm would be legendarily awesome. I've heard where the NBA can stop that or will at least do everything in its power to ensure that doesn't happen (obviously), but maybe Sterling, the savvy, litigious man he is reported to be, can somehow beat it. Seems unlikely, but would be awesome. I have plenty of popcorn in case.
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 1, 2014 1:54pm
It would be comical and pretty enjoyable TV to watch . I have to agree with that. However the good thing to do is send that family on it's way.reclegend22;1611623 wrote:Personally, I am pulling for Sterling to somehow transfer the team to a family member. Watching the ensuing media and NBA player firestorm would be legendarily awesome. I've heard where the NBA can stop that or will at least do everything in its power to ensure that doesn't happen (obviously), but maybe Sterling, the savvy, litigious man he is reported to be, can somehow beat it. Seems unlikely, but would be awesome. I have plenty of popcorn in case.
I just hope the money grubbing skank who did this illegal taping gets all her money taken from her. I do hope the Sterling family wins that law suit.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
May 1, 2014 4:58pm
Really...I have no love for this "family" but I have my reservations for public ruination of people who technically have broken no laws, but have been 'caught' voicing an 'unapproved' thought. It is easy to hate on the Sterlings and justify this as their comeuppance..but what about good people who have bad moments? Paula Deen comes to mind.
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Gblock
May 1, 2014 5:10pm
Only one in this situation I ever felt bad for was the jimmy the Greek guy... While misguided I absolutely don't think he meant his comments to be racist
Lovejoy1984
Posts: 5,277
May 1, 2014 5:35pm
Care to elaborate?rydawg5;1611477 wrote:I disagree and find it funny you say "comments and serious crimes" lol
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 1, 2014 6:46pm
I believe that also. I had his brother for a land lord once. That guy is kind of shady.Gblock;1611688 wrote:Only one in this situation I ever felt bad for was the jimmy the Greek guy... While misguided I absolutely don't think he meant his comments to be racist
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 1, 2014 6:50pm
I agree but it's not like this family is going to walk away broke. He could go by an Island somewhere. Go buy a yacht and travel all over . He didn't mind putting people on the streets because he said black people aren't clean and smell and Latino's are drunks.HitsRus;1611685 wrote:Really...I have no love for this "family" but I have my reservations for public ruination of people who technically have broken no laws, but have been 'caught' voicing an 'unapproved' thought. It is easy to hate on the Sterlings and justify this as their comeuppance..but what about good people who have bad moments? Paula Deen comes to mind.
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Gblock
May 1, 2014 7:18pm
Big red did u graduate from big red? If so what year? U might know my ex wife or her brother
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 1, 2014 9:15pm
PM me and tell me who they are and what year.Gblock;1611731 wrote:Big red did u graduate from big red? If so what year? U might know my ex wife or her brother
Lovejoy1984
Posts: 5,277
May 2, 2014 12:11am
So Donald Sterling has prostate cancer.
So I most definitely see this going to court, so that he can die and just let the team follow the path I assume he set up.
So I most definitely see this going to court, so that he can die and just let the team follow the path I assume he set up.
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 2, 2014 4:36am
Is that a news flash ? Does he have cancer? If so so what . The NBA can't let his wife take over,she is no good either.
SnotBubbles
Posts: 4,492
May 2, 2014 7:12am
Greatest sentence ever in the history of the OC. I give it "4-eye patches up!"steubbigred;1611842 wrote:Of so so what .
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Gblock
May 2, 2014 7:54am
not sure if i can condemn the whole family. i know plenty of families who have a racist dad but the mom and daughter both love black guys
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
May 2, 2014 8:52am
^^^Haha....but the first part of that is true. You can't condemn the whole family, and racism within a family most certainly recedes in suceeding generations.
I hate the term racist because it is an overused term that has lost its true meaning and been redefined by liberal thought and political correctness to apply to even mild cases of discrimination or predjudice.
Adolf Hitler was a racist. Donald Sterling is guilty of some discrimination and is predjudiced to a greater or lesser degree.
I hate the term racist because it is an overused term that has lost its true meaning and been redefined by liberal thought and political correctness to apply to even mild cases of discrimination or predjudice.
Adolf Hitler was a racist. Donald Sterling is guilty of some discrimination and is predjudiced to a greater or lesser degree.
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steubbigred
Posts: 1,392
May 2, 2014 9:48am
Me too. Sometimes in spite of dad.Gblock;1611856 wrote:not sure if i can condemn the whole family. i know plenty of families who have a racist dad but the mom and daughter both love black guys
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Gblock
May 2, 2014 9:55am
honestly racist wasnt a term used around my house...it would be prejudiced was the word my dad would say
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queencitybuckeye
Posts: 7,117
May 2, 2014 9:57am
If you're going to use that logic, you also need to be a crusader against the death penalty, as no one currently convicted of murder in this country remotely rises to the level of Hitler.HitsRus;1611864 wrote:
Adolf Hitler was a racist. Donald Sterling is guilty of some discrimination and is predjudiced to a greater or lesser degree.
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
May 2, 2014 10:03am
Hitler started out good but he just went too far.queencitybuckeye;1611888 wrote:If you're going to use that logic, you also need to be a crusader against the death penalty, as no one currently convicted of murder in this country remotely rises to the level of Hitler.
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queencitybuckeye
Posts: 7,117
May 2, 2014 10:07am
thavoice;1611892 wrote:Hitler started out good but he just went too far.
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Well played.
Relativism falls only slightly behind slippery slope in terms of per se bad arguments.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
May 2, 2014 10:29am
I don't get your point and that's certainly a bad analogy.If you're going to use that logic, you also need to be a crusader against the death penalty, as no one currently convicted of murder in this country remotely rises to the level of Hitler
I'm saying racist/racism involves a more active component. It is one thing to say "I don't like white people"....and another thing to act on those feelings.
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queencitybuckeye
Posts: 7,117
May 2, 2014 10:47am
It's a perfect analogy. You made a comparison in Sterling's level of racism with Hitler's. Sterling's words were racist, and no action is required for him to correctly be labelled as a racist (you don't get to make up your own definitions of words).HitsRus;1611909 wrote:I don't get your point and that's certainly a bad analogy.
I'm saying racist/racism involves a more active component. It is one thing to say "I don't like white people"....and another thing to act on those feelings.
Laley23
Posts: 29,506
May 2, 2014 10:54am
Actually, racism can simply be the thought, and never expressed or acted upon. Discrimination is more or less the action being taken.HitsRus;1611909 wrote:I don't get your point and that's certainly a bad analogy.
I'm saying racist/racism involves a more active component. It is one thing to say "I don't like white people"....and another thing to act on those feelings.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
May 2, 2014 10:58am
no, it's a terrible analogy...There's a difference between saying '"I'd like to kill that SOB." ...and actually doing it.
...and yet that is exactly what has been done with the term in question. That you have been indoctrinated to define it your way is testament to that.(you don't get to make up your own definitions of words).
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
May 2, 2014 11:08am
You mean as in running your rental properties in such a way that you've had to pay out immense sums of money due to having discriminatory rental practices against minorities?HitsRus;1611909 wrote:I don't get your point and that's certainly a bad analogy.
I'm saying racist/racism involves a more active component. It is one thing to say "I don't like white people"....and another thing to act on those feelings.
Like Sterling has had to do.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
May 2, 2014 11:11am
Merriam Webster...
Don't get me wrong, Sterling may be a racist....I'm arguing that the word is overused to the point where it is overapplied.Racism reflects an acceptance of the deepest forms and degrees of divisiveness and carries the implication that differences among groups are so great that they cannot be transcended