Jason Whitlock: The Explication 2.0

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Dog...since when has Whitlock gotten into details? Last time he spoke with another black intellectual that got into details, he pulled down the podcast in a matter of hours.

Whitlock every now and then falling upon ethical journalism, deciding to buttress his points with facts doesn't mean he consistently does it. The only fact here is that he consistently does the opposite.

hey, i'll give you that. but, i wouldn't substitute consistently where ALWAYS would be more appropriate. no sports columnist i've read ALWAYS does it, because it's not ALWAYS necessary. it is a column after all.
 

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The contractual obligations are unclear to me as far as this goes. But it says everything that a well thought out 5 page column about the decline in black activism among athletes and how their allegiance to their brands and their carefully crafted marketable images has rendered them self-serving and neutered gets carefully debated for a week then shafted while any old buffoon can say some shyt on ESPN about blacks needing to behave better and no one will hesitate to blast those comments or columns out, whether from a white or black person.
Be careful, Walt

They not gonna like this :lupe:
 

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hey, i'll give you that. but, i wouldn't substitute consistently where ALWAYS would be more appropriate. no sports columnist i've read ALWAYS does it, because it's not ALWAYS necessary. it is a column after all.
So because no one is perfect, and I mean no one, everyone is on equal ground in terms of their reputation as journalists?
 

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So because no one is perfect, and I mean no one, everyone is on equal ground in terms of their reputation as journalists?

nope, just saying hold everyone to the same standard. or are you saying he's just shyt journalist who deserves no platform?
 

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The contractual obligations are unclear to me as far as this goes. But it says everything that a well thought out 5 page column about the decline in black activism among athletes and how their allegiance to their brands and their carefully crafted marketable images has rendered them self-serving and neutered gets carefully debated for a week then shafted while any old buffoon can say some shyt on ESPN about blacks needing to behave better and no one will hesitate to blast those comments or columns out, whether from a white or black person.
Guess who's the poster boy? :mjpls:


You stay dropping gems, breh. :shiet:

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nope, just saying hold everyone to the same standard. or are you saying he's just shyt journalist who deserves no platform?
No...You're accusing me of selective standards.

that's bullshyt . Whitlock has a history of shyt journalism and flimsy integrity. To act like how he should be perceived is equal to everyone is dumb.
 

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No...You're accusing me of selective standards.

that's bullshyt . Whitlock has a history of shyt journalism and flimsy integrity. To act like how he should be perceived is equal to everyone is dumb.

okay. i'd just like you to cite some examples. because i can't count stuff i don't agree with as shyt journalism and flimsy integrity.
 

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I enjoy his writing, but a lot of atheists, black or white, can come across as if they are on some higher level of thinking than the common man. Not saying he's an example of this, but it can sometimes leak out in his writing. It's more of an interesting point than anything.
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his hatred for greg howard is amusing

and his twitter feed :scust:
 

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Man this is about to get dirty...

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Jason Whitlock's feud with Greg Howard and Deadspin goes nuclear

Over the last year and a half of reporting on you and The Undefeated, I’ve spent days and days trying to get a better sense of who you are, and I’ve found that despite your bravado, you are a lonely, sad figure. You’re pitiable, and yet no one pities you, because in an attempt to match your life to your self-delusion, you hurt people. You say you are the king, and try to reach your station by stepping on people close to you, people you think are less than you. You’re sexist and racist, and even worse, you’re a bully who took pleasure in terrorizing people unfortunate enough to have faith in you, like The Undefeated executive editor Amy DuBois Barnett, and your writer Jerry Bembry, and your one-time secretary and close friend, Erin Buker. If events were just a little different, I would’ve been right there with them. That’s why you failed. That’s why you are at Fox Sports.

There’s no other explanation, and yet here you are, two blogs deep into your second Explanation, hiding behind black Christianity and Serena Williams (of all people), once again clinging to relevance, once again trying to make others feel the pain and shame you feel coursing through your veins. You lack so much self-awareness that I doubt you even fully grasp how ironic and funny it is to name your latest endeavor The Explanation 2.0. But I refuse to believe that even you fail to see the poetry in being taken in by Fox Sports, the only place more cynical than ESPN, and sitting across the couch from Colin Cowherd, who even you would agree doesn’t amount to a ruptured left nut on his best day.:deadmanny:

(Howard then includes some 2011 Whitlock tweets praising a Craggs takedown of Colin Cowherd.)

Surely you can see that Fox Sports adding you to Cowherd and Clay Travis says nothing about their faith in you and everything about their executives’ contempt for the women and people of color who work at Fox Sports and who consume its content. Fox Sports is a retirement home for the very worst of us, a living museum where you can go to see what sportswriting used to be.

And yet, surely you see that setting you up with a personal Tumblr account where you can’t interrupt but can be easily summoned amounts to Fox Sports inviting you onto the estate and directing you to the slave quarters. Do you think you’re finally home? Do you still think you’re the king?

I doubt it gets much better for you from here. But best of luck.
 
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