[Vision2020] Political correctness run amok

[Paul Rumelhart]

I really like that, thank you for sharing it.

Paul

On 04/29/2014 02:24 PM, Janesta wrote:
> Kareem Abdul Jabbar spoke my feelings.
>
>     I loved this:
>
>     "What bothers me about this whole Donald Sterling affair isn’t
>     just his racism. I’m bothered that everyone acts as if it’s a huge
>     surprise. Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of
>     clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers
>     season tickets. Really? All this other stuff I listed above has
>     been going on for years and this ridiculous conversation with his
>     girlfriend is what puts you over the edge? That’s the smoking gun?
>
>
>     He was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for
>     years, preventing them from getting housing. It was public record.
>     We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend
>     posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the
>     torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation
>     back then?
>     ...
>     Make no mistake: Donald Sterling is the villain of this story. But
>     he’s just a handmaiden to the bigger evil. In our quest for social
>     justice, we shouldn’t lose sight that racism is the true enemy.
>     He’s just another jerk with more money than brains.
>
>     So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we
>     weren’t more outraged when his racism was first evident. Let’s be
>     outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate
>     relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged
>     that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a
>     sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on
>     Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars."
>
>     http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/
>
>     Janesta
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Crabtree 
> <moscowlocksmith at gmail.com <mailto:moscowlocksmith at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The guy should be thanking his lucky stars that he wasn't
>     illegally taped stating that he believed that marriage should be
>     between a man and a women exclusively. They would be calling for a
>     total confiscation of all his worldly goods and a summary execution.
>
>     g
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Paul Rumelhart
>     <godshatter at yahoo.com <mailto:godshatter at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>         Donald Sterling has now been banned for life from games and
>         practices by the NBA and fined $2.5 million dollars.  Why?
>         Because he was recorded saying bad things about black people
>         in a PRIVATE conversation he was having with his girlfriend.
>          One that was very likely recorded illegally. Does this strike
>         anyone here as being over-the-top?  Or am I the only one not
>         on the "OMG! He said bad things about black people!" bandwagon?
>
>
>         I hate that we have become a nation of nattering ninnies.
>
>         Paul
>
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