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Accept or Decline Donald Sterling Apology?

Should Donald Sterling be forgiven?


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Not that I really care since the hammer go will go down, but the apology wasn't sincere. He's not sorry for being a racist, he's sorry he got caught. Being a racist for 3-4 decades, engaging in housing discrimination, then suing for getting called out on engaging in discrimination, and then making employees uncomfortable among a litany of other harmful acts does not constitute "a mistake." It is a systematic pattern of behavior that is not likely to change at age 82.

I think it's pretty funny that people are feeling sorry for the sensitive players. They are making millions of dollars playing a game they love while trying to win what they have lived a lifetime trying to win, so exactly what is there to feel sorry for them about? Oh that their employer might not like them? Who the **** cares about that? If I was one of those guys I would only care that he was paying me and I was winning games. I wouldn't give a **** if he likes me or not.

The way they played after it all came out was just pathetic. Get over it sissy boys.
 
So you're calling me a race traitor. Thanks.

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He chose to exclude a race, to create a second class citizenry. What he did was an overt attempt to marginalize and subjugate a minority. Further, he considers hard earned pay to be handouts in some sort of a modern plantation fantasy.

You're inferring one hell of a lot there.

He told his girlfriend to not bring black people with her to Clipper games. Just as likely he's overly image concious and worried about what people will think. That's dopey and potentially bigoted. It is not of itself racist.
 
He's white. That must pain you.

Why do you think defining racism as more than just individual bigotry, and including the social aspects of a social construct, is anti-white?
 
You're inferring one hell of a lot there.

He told his girlfriend to not bring black people with her to Clipper games. Just as likely he's overly image concious and worried about what people will think. That's dopey and potentially bigoted. It is not of itself racist.

It's clearly marginalizing a minority. And he referred to paychecks as handouts. Both of those things are damaging to the NBA.
 
Why do you think defining racism as more than just individual bigotry, and including the social aspects of a social construct, is anti-white?

You're just denying simple fact. For what reasons, who knows. Saying that racism can only be performed by a regional or national majority is just baiting and trolling. There are many, many instances where black institutional racism exists. You can't white-wash that.
 
You're just denying simple fact.

You're denying real racism and calling bigotry by minorities racism. You're even calling AA racism. You'll call anything racism, as long as it helps to deny real racism.
 

You need more options in your poll - for me, the man's apology should be accepted at face value and he should continue to pay the fine, because the words were uttered by him. However, the league has no business trying to strip the team from him and his wife.

I hope the league continues to try to make he and his wife sell the team so that the league can lose in court and be further embarrassed for the way they steamrolled justice here.
 
You're denying real racism and calling bigotry by minorities racism. You're even calling AA racism. You'll call anything racism, as long as it helps to deny real racism.

Anything where race plays a role in bias toward one side is racism. It's not like only one type of racism can exist. That's like saying you're an inhabitant of Earth, so you can't live in North America, or the United States, or Florida. You're an earthling.
 
It's clearly marginalizing a minority. And he referred to paychecks as handouts. Both of those things are damaging to the NBA.

Sure they are potentially damaging to the NBA. I'm not arguing that they aren't. I'm simply saying they don't rise to the level of racism.

Neither does the "paychecks as handouts" comment - really. Plenty of employers have felt that way about their employees. If he owned a hockey team he might well say the same thing. About the only thing you can definitively say about the paycheck comment is that it makes him an a-hole of an employer.
 
Stupid deflection question. The incident regarding Sterling revolved around black people because his comments were directed at black people which is why black people, not other 'minorities' are the focus. Does that sufficiently handle your deflective intellectual dishonesty?
Utter fail on your part. Do you even know to what I was referring?
 
Sure they are potentially damaging to the NBA. I'm not arguing that they aren't. I'm simply saying they don't rise to the level of racism.

You're not considering his statements in context. One needn't use the word 'nigger' or openly display personal disgust or belief in superiority in order to engage in the systemic oppression and marginalization of a minority.

You are trying to define racism by individual actions, words or expression alone, and failing to see systemic oppression in action.
 
Anything where race plays a role in bias toward one side is racism.

Like I said, you'll call anything racism because that helps you deny real racism.

This is why racists get so upset when one says that only whites can be racist, it pulls the BS rug out from underneath them.

Calling everything racist is premised on a denial of real racism and an understanding of what it is.
 
I don't say things in private that I fear becoming public, so I couldn't care less.

Never, really? I find that very hard to believe. How about something you don't fear but really rather wouldn't be made public?
 
Not that I really care since the hammer go will go down, but the apology wasn't sincere. He's not sorry for being a racist, he's sorry he got caught. Being a racist for 3-4 decades, engaging in housing discrimination, then suing for getting called out on engaging in discrimination, and then making employees uncomfortable among a litany of other harmful acts does not constitute "a mistake." It is a systematic pattern of behavior that is not likely to change at age 82.
Most likely.
 
Never, really? I find that very hard to believe. How about something you don't fear but really rather wouldn't be made public?

I'm old and boring. What ya see is what ya get.
 
Privately expressed racism has public consequences. This is what a lot of white people don't seem to care about since it generally benefits them.

The consequences were appropriate.

Let's also ban the player who hit fans with a metal chair.
 
Like I said, you'll call anything racism because that helps you deny real racism.

This is why racists get so upset when one says that only whites can be racist, it pulls the BS rug out from underneath them.

Calling everything racist is premised on a denial of real racism and an understanding of what it is.

That's ok. You keep defining the word any way you want to. I'll continue to laugh and mock.
 
Some are claiming that he has harmed the NBA. How so?

If you are one of the people who hold this view, please explain how YOU now think less of the league as a result. What is it about the league that is now held in lower esteem than it was prior?
 
Maybe drop the penalties and keep the fines?
 
That's ok. You keep defining the word any way you want to. I'll continue to laugh and mock.

The only racism you see is made up BS. You refuse to see real racism, how it harms society and how we, as a society, address that harm.
 
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