Funny how this interview made me think of Marge Schott and her thoughts on Hitler.
For you youngins, this is the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
An Arrogant Marge Schott Is an Embarrassment to Baseball
In an interview on ESPN on last Sunday, Schott said of Adolf Hitler that "everybody knows he was good at the beginning, but he just went too far."
Those are the exact words she used back in 1993 when she was fined $25,000 and suspended from baseball for one year for slurs against blacks, Jews and Asians. Some people refuse to learn from the mistakes of others--as Jimmy the Greek didn't learn from Al Campanis. But Schott can't even learn from herself. Because she doesn't want to learn.
Her every action says, "I haven't changed one bit. And you can't make me."
Back in 1993, a former Reds comptroller charged in a lawsuit that he was fired because he protested Schott's use of phrases like "million-dollar ******s," "money-grubbing Jews" and "Japs."
Schott denied those charges. Then, backhandedly, she confirmed them. Asked if she had ever used the word "******," she said, "sure" but "very seldom." She added it was "a Southern expression" and not necessarily offensive to African Americans.
She couldn't remember whether she'd called Martin Luther King Jr. Day "****** day," but added "anything's possible." As to the swastika she kept at home among her Christmas decorations, she said it was memorabilia.
Schott isn't just unrepentant about her bigotry. She clearly revels in it. After she returned from her previous suspension, she gave a downtown Cincinnati speech in which she said she didn't allow her Reds players to wear earrings because "only fruits wear earrings."
Dude was a genocidal piece of shyt. Also, he was an evil fukk who wanted world domination. Minister Farrakhan never bombed a Synagogue.
