I Expect Adam Silver to Hand Out Lifetime Bans for Homophobic Slurs Now

[kash10003]

it begins....

trolling never ends on the coli

 

[Roaden Polynice]

He got fined 100k. At least get the facts right breh.

My bad, my 0 key went out there.

:lifetimeban: nope.

And why not? This is what I was talking about. Why can't blacks and gays come together? Alliances with other oppressed groups in turn makes those groups without power stronger.

 

[#StarkSet]

I did it brehs










I snitched

 

[Luke Cage]

My bad, my 0 key went out there.



And why not? This is what I was talking about. Why can't blacks and gays come together? Alliances with other oppressed groups in turn makes those groups without power stronger.

Because you're talking about two seperate things.
Racial Discrimination is illegal
Racial Slurs are not.

Sterling didn't even use any slurs in the tape.
Did he drop the n word at any point?

Kobe got fined because its against league policy. but you can't take him to court for it.

Sterling however can be sued and sent to jail for what he did.

 

[Roaden Polynice]

He never actually said anything verbally insensitive ie dropping n bombs f bombs, comparing black people to animals ect.

See, and that's what makes Kobe's actions even worse to me and the whole thing way more tragic. Sterling said some bad things, don't get me wrong. But Kobe actually called dude a fakkit

To his face

In front of everyone

Perhaps gays don't have the clout of black people yet, I dunno, shyt is mindboggling

 

[Luke Cage]

See, and that's what makes Kobe's actions even worse to me and the whole thing way more tragic. Sterling said some bad things, don't get me wrong. But Kobe actually called dude a fakkit

To his face

In front of everyone

Perhaps gays don't have the clout of black people yet, I dunno, shyt is mindboggling

So name calling is worse than discrimination in your opinion?
Which words should be illegal? Just fakkit and ******? can we include fat and stupid into that too. they are use to hurt people of a certain description in the same exact way.

 

[Trojan 24]

At this trolling

 

[CM_Burns]

I agree that the direct action of taped conversation didn't intrude on anyone's civil liberties, but his wording hinted at the fact that he more or less didn't welcome black people into his games and didn't want to associate with them.

It makes an employer-employee relationship awkward.

In addition, his past history of violations - sexual, racial, housing - makes it seem like he would be willing to act with bigotry in light of the new recorded comments.

His past comments on his black and latino tenants and his practices in housing are ban worthy, being proven to actually act on his racism in ways that harm people. But that's not why he's getting banned, that's what I don't like. His past also makes things awkward is the world having audio that he's a racist and it being a top news story, but it seems like it was already known from stories that the coaches and players were playing for a racist.

Unless we're assuming he might be innocent for housing discrimination and now these tapes convinced us he's definitely guilty, that's the only way this makes sense imo.

This whole thing just feels like the NBA doesn't really give a fukk and are throwing him under the bus with all this pressure, but they gave him a pass for practicing harmful discrimination.

 

[kash10003]

His past comments on his black and latino tenants and his practices in housing are ban worthy, being proven to actually act on his racism in ways that harm people. But that's not why he's getting banned, that's what I don't like. His past also makes things awkward is the world having audio that he's a racist and it being a top news story, but it seems like it was already known from stories that the coaches and players were playing for a racist.

Unless we're assuming he might be innocent for housing discrimination and now these tapes convinced us he's definitely guilty, that's the only way this makes sense imo.

This whole thing just feels like the NBA doesn't really give a fukk and are throwing him under the bus with all this pressure, but they gave him a pass for practicing harmful discrimination.

His comments are extremely offensive still. If you don't agree, that's fine but obviously the sponsors do. He had to go for many reasons, and one of the major ones being a financial/PR burden

 

[dem bath salts]

You're analogy is off but i will say, players better reconcile whatever they feel about gays because precedent has been set. I eant be crying if they fukk up.

 

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:hebrewhammer:

 

[Roaden Polynice]

So name calling is worse than discrimination in your opinion?
Which words should be illegal? Just fakkit and ******? can we include fat and stupid into that too. they are use to hurt people of a certain description in the same exact way.

I feel like you're trolling now b.

No one is asking for all that. All I'm asking for is something humane and something that unites all oppressed people together. In this case Sterling said some really bad things, essentially saying that blacks were sub-human and as a result he was banned. He didn't use any slurs, no but what he said was real dikkish.

Compare that to Kobe who said a super offensive slur but is still around? I dunno man that really chafes with me. All I'm saying is that even though Sterling didn't say any racial slurs, we should combat against that. We should combat against all slurs

I'm for humans b, not sure what else to say

 

[Killer Instinct]

Why are you clowns even entertaining this? You don't have to argue down everything, especially when the the topic is only created to incite a rise. Let this shyt sink to the bottom of the page. Jesus.

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Where were gays when this shyt with Sterling was going down? Did GLAAD issue a statement on it or back us up?

They use us when it benefits them, then throw us to the bushes afterwards. We're pawns to them. Gotta stick to our own cause first.

And this is completely separate from the gay slur lifetime ban thing. If Sterling had the same rhetoric about gays as he did blacks, he should've got the boot. You can't start handing out lifetime bans for saying one word though. Really? Even if a white player slipped on some Riley KKKooper shyt and called another player a ****** in rage, he shouldn't get a lifetime ban for that. He should be punished, but that's just a word at the end of the day. Sterling's situation was more than just words, he was actively implementing a white supremacist mentality as the head of an NBA franchise. Big difference.

Thing is people act like Kobe and superstars of his ilk don't wield any power.

Michael Jordan has people swarming malls for things as insignificant as shoes and jumpman chancletas but people act like at the end of the day he's as powerless as some regular schlub off the street. It's utter nonsense. Athletes are like royalty, the monarchy of the USA. They produce little of note yet we're supposed to applaud at their every giggle, squeak and fart.

Fact is, in calling dude a fakkit Kobe was actually instilling and enforcing a heteronormative lifestyle. He was actively promoting it, essentially saying gays have no room in the NBA culture and especially the larger dominant culture.

I think I see similarities

 

[pickles]

Can you brehs neg OP into oblivion? That cac is straight trolling.