Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by defen on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:37PM
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Donald Sterling, 80 year old man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, has a private one-on-one conversation with a "trusted" person secretly recorded by that person, which results in his being banned for life from the NBA and forced to sell his team. To me that's literally one step away from thought-crime. If we had magical mind-reading technology that could prove Donald Sterling was prejudiced against black people, but he never took any actions[1] or spoke any words based on that, should we strip him of his team?
[1] I know about the housing discrimination lawsuit; I'm leaving it out of this analysis because the NBA clearly didn't care about it until the secret recording made Sterling a pariah.
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by vox_mollis on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:48PM
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Will anyone who defends Eich or is critical of his detractors come out and say that Sterling should not have received the wrath of the media
Absolutely. Both men were pilloried by mob justice for PRIVATELY holding unpopular opinions.
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by yawaramin on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:48PM
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Well, you haven't exactly come out and said anything, given that you've posted under a pseudonym....
Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:38PM
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Now don’t be silly
Who the fuck gon' bully me if I got a billi?
If I got a billi and they're recording me I’m like who cares
What I wouldn’t be is on TV stutterin' ta-ta-talkin' scared
Will anyone who defends Eich or is critical of his detractors come out and say that Sterling should not have received the wrath of the media and public and should not have been punished for expressing his views?
Or does your position shift based on the opinion being expressed by either man? Are there materialistic differences between these men and their beliefs?