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That puts you in the same category as Ted "Chunk Style" McCubbins.
I give up. Who is Ted McCubbins?
That puts you in the same category as Ted "Chunk Style" McCubbins.
I agree but my point is if you’re White it’s much easier not to be offended.
If you’re White just listen to how Blacks feel. If a lot of them are uncomfortable with the word, use another word. What does it cost you?
Also, the NBA and other leagues with collective bargaining are such that the players are partners. Most businesses have employees who produce a product. The owner owns “the means of production.” In the NBA the players are the means of production and the product.
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Today I hear some guy on ESPN (Will Cain) complaining about the NBA "owners" issue. It seems some people object to the use of the word "owner" regarding NBA ownership because most of the "owners" are White and the players are Black. It reminds some of slavery and owner/slave relationships.
I'm Black and it doesn't bother me. But I get annoyed by people like Will Cain who complain that some people are too sensitive. They seem to believe they are somehow more enlightened because they are not offended.
But it's easy not to be offended when the alleged insult is aimed at someone else.
Racially insensitive people, or insensitive people in general, are people who refuse to imagine that someone else may feel differently than they do.
If you're White it's no achievement to not be offended by language that reminds people of slavery. Moreover, who cares? So what if they use "governors" or CEO instead of owners? What does it cost you?
Being white.What is racial insensitivity?
I'm a white guy. I'm not a racist. I'm also and old fart, and not a fan of Biden. But I did actually understand what he said when he talked about working with the Dixiecrats. That schit's history, it's over, long gone, but it did happen. I don't understand all the hate about it. I don't know, maybe it's an age related thing.
I'm sorry but I disagree. It seems that your argument is if you are Black it is much easier to be offended.
The question would be why, and if so why should anyone encourage these "feelings?"
I'm old enough to have lived in the days when driving through certain States was problematic. Where you could be refused service or relegated to "special but 'equal'" areas if allowed service at all.
My family taught me that words cannot harm us, it is DEEDS that do. To shrug off name calling, and stand up for yourself.
Now, in our current society where "Jim Crow" is but a distant memory for the oldest of us, it seems to me that Black America now holds all the "special privileges" of both Affirmative Action and the Hierarchy of Oppression. Moreover it seems to me as if we are SEEKING to find examples of racism where none actually exist. Anything to perpetuate and protect if not expand our "privileges."
So forgive me if I don't share this idea that simply because someone takes offense it means others must coddle and adapt to what those seekers believe is the new "fair and equitable" privilege owed to us.