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Donald Sterling, Conservative Republican, set to receive NAACP

PhDeac said:
Within the NBA context, he doesn't have an all-white team because that would be frowned upon by his peers. In other social contexts, he can be a Type IV who gets sanctioned by the laws of the land.
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I thought this section from the Type IV description was interesting when compared parts of the recordings:

His ideals proclaim the right, even the duty, of discrimination. Accordingly, his behavior does not entail a sense of social deviation, with the resultant strains which this would involve. The ethic illiberal is as much a conformist as the ethnic liberal. He is merely conforming to a different cultural and institutional pattern which is centered, not about the creed, but about a doctrine of essential inequality of status ascribed to those of diverse ethnic and racial origins.
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He seemed to be pretty insistent that he wasn't racist, this is just how the world works (whatever that means). I wonder who these friends are that are calling him up to tell him what his gf is posting on her Instagram.
 
PhDeac said:
Thanks Skins. The example I most commonly use is being in a group and someone tells an off-color joke and you don't speak up.

Perhaps you work for an employer who doesn't want to recruit a certain type of client.
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Makes sense. Good examples. I certainly don't like his use of the word liberalism to describe all things glorious and illiberal to describe all things hate but outside of semantics the article makes some good points. Thanks for sharing.
 
Wrangor said:
Makes sense. Good examples. I certainly don't like his use of the word liberalism to describe all things glorious and illiberal to describe all things hate but outside of semantics the article makes some good points. Thanks for sharing.
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Again the article was written in 1948. The word has become much more political since then.
 
It's like the point in the football season where all his prognostications and oracle bullshit don't pan out; lectro just disappears.
 
Did anybody else listen to the audio and think that it almost sounded like he was having some kind of breakdown? Wouldn't be surprised to hear that he "missed his medication" or something of that nature.
 
That's not an excuse, ELC.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
Did anybody else listen to the audio and think that it almost sounded like he was having some kind of breakdown? Wouldn't be surprised to hear that he "missed his medication" or something of that nature.
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He's got thirty years or more of blatantly racist statements and business policies. This was not surprising at all.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
Did anybody else listen to the audio and think that it almost sounded like he was having some kind of breakdown? Wouldn't be surprised to hear that he "missed his medication" or something of that nature.
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If that's the case, then dude has been missing his medication for 30+ years.

ETA: RJ beat me to it...
 
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I don't know too much about Sterling, except that he seems to come off as a jerk in more ways than one. One of the biggest puzzles to me is why anyone would insist on spending half of their life promoting and subsidizing losing basketball?
 
Turning 20MM into 500MM?
 
sailordeac said:
I don't know too much about Sterling, except that he seems to come off as a jerk in more ways than one. One of the biggest puzzles to me is why anyone would insist on spending half of their life promoting and subsidizing losing basketball?
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Kareem's take:
http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/

..."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.

The big question is “What should be done next?” I hope Sterling loses his franchise. I hope whoever made this illegal tape is sent to prison. I hope the Clippers continue to be unconditionally supported by their fans. I hope the Clippers realize that the ramblings of an 80-year-old man jealous of his young girlfriend don’t define who they are as individual players or as a team. They aren’t playing for Sterling—they’re playing for themselves, for the fans, for showing the world that neither basketball, nor our American ideals, are defined by a few pathetic men or women."
 
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I'm shocked that this guy is a republican. SHOCKED. Of course lectro doesn't believe it since it involves facts that can be verified. That's obviously the litmus test for his belief system. Is it verifiable? Then it can't be true.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I'm shocked that this guy is a republican. SHOCKED. Of course lectro doesn't believe it since it involves facts that can be verified. That's obviously the litmus test for his belief system. Is it verifiable? Then it can't be true.
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His opinions on Wake football showed that. Thankfully it looks like Clawson shut him out.
 
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