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How quickly might a writer be fired or reprimanded for mocking the appearance of a group of minorities as they celebrated their team's victory at a professional sporting event?

Consider that as you read sports website SB Nation's "White People Celebrate Heat Loss in Exceedingly White Fashion."

Below that disgusting headline was the following picture with this caption and subheadline:

Bulls.jpg


White people, in their natural habitat. - USA TODAY Sports

Who are the happiest people when the Bulls snap the Heat's losing streak? White people.

From there, author Bill Hanstock - whose Twitter profile boasts that he's an editor and contributor to this website - wrote, "On Wednesday night, the Chicago Bulls halted the impressive winning streak of the Miami Heat at 27 games. Luckily, a gaggle of exceedingly white dudes had courtside seats (because white people looooooove courtside seats) and treated us to the above picture."

Next on the agenda were zoomed in shots of the men in the picture above with similarly disgraceful commentary such as:

"This guy is pretty white, I guess."

"Hey, it's the white Lewis Black."

"Just two white guys, enjoying each others' company, wearing their finest Cherokee-brand shirts."

"If Wallace Shawn were an even whiter Gollum, you'd STILL have to ramp several notches up the White Guy Meter to arrive at ... THIS."

Hanstock finished his piece saying, "Never change, white people. You are a GOLD MINE."

You think he'd still be an editor and contributor to this website if the word "black" appeared throughout this piece instead of "white" and the picture in question was a bunch of African-American Bulls fans celebrating last night's victory in Chicago?



Read more: Sports Website Mocks 'Exceedingly White' People Celebrating Win at NBA Game | NewsBusters

No doubt. The more diverse the country becomes the more discrimination segments of society will receive.

I find it funny that they can post this and trash mouth white people like this, but if a white person were to do it to a crowd of black people it'd make national headlines and you'd hear calls for a "National Debate" on race relations.

Getting pretty tired of this crap.
 
Re: Sports Website Mocks 'Exceedingly White' People Celebrating Win at NBA Game Read

I think race jokes are funny.
People need to have thicker skin about it.

Nice eve avatar, Caldari and Min are my favorite.
 
Re: Sports Website Mocks 'Exceedingly White' People Celebrating Win at NBA Game Read

I think race jokes are funny.
People need to have thicker skin about it.

Nice eve avatar, Caldari and Min are my favorite.

Right...but consider what I said about the roles being reversed.

Eve player eh? o7

CFC ftw
 
Re: Sports Website Mocks 'Exceedingly White' People Celebrating Win at NBA Game Read

Right...but consider what I said about the roles being reversed.

Yea, I mean if the person isn't trying to be a racist ass hat.
It's cool with me.

Like I said, people need to thicken their skin, that goes for all races.

Eve player eh? o7

CFC ftw

Started at launch, but haven't played in quite a while.
Started as an industrial corp, changed to dedicate wormhole operations, but that's exhausting without a support network.
Most of my pilots were very newbish to wormhole operations.
 
Re: Sports Website Mocks 'Exceedingly White' People Celebrating Win at NBA Game Read

That does kinda look like me and the guys at a Pacer game.
 
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Yea, I mean if the person isn't trying to be a racist ass hat.
It's cool with me.

Like I said, people need to thicken their skin, that goes for all races.

It still came off to me as an under the table jab at white folks. Joke or not, I found it offensive.


Started at launch, but haven't played in quite a while.
Started as an industrial corp, changed to dedicate wormhole operations, but that's exhausting without a support network.
Most of my pilots were very newbish to wormhole operations.

Awesome. I haven't dabbled much with WH content (other than blapping a few unaware noctis with a stealth bomber.)

I'm in a major nullsec alliance with a carrier alt. :cool:
 
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