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To your hypocrisy, of course. You created a fallacy of false equivalency, a showed you the error of your way, then you have doubled down on your hypocrisy.So you admit to the hypocrisy.Yup, it is the same. A slave used to get a one-day suspension of pay for calling his owner a honkey.Ironic in that Davis is reacting as a virtual slave to PC.
The announcer accepted his slave punishment. You are an abject hypocrite.To your hypocrisy, of course. You created a fallacy of false equivalency, a showed you the error of your way, then you have doubled down on your hypocrisy.So you admit to the hypocrisy.Yup, it is the same. A slave used to get a one-day suspension of pay for calling his owner a honkey.Ironic in that Davis is reacting as a virtual slave to PC.
The announcer admits he was wrong.
Anyone doubt civilization is imploding?
Oklahoma City Thunder Suspends Announcer After 'Cotton Picking' Comment
I have read the OP's link very carefully.
I feel that Mr. Davis, the announcer, was very mature and professional in acknowledging that his use of that phrase was "insensitive."
And a one-game suspension seemed to be fair.
I don't think it was fair at all, even if Davis thinks it was.
This country is very much divided and apparently becoming more divided every day when it comes to ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.
We all have to be super careful not to unintentionally hurt the feelings of other groups.
If a word or phrase was not intended to offend then there's no cause for hurt feelings. If we are offended by something someone says, we are not offended by the mere utterance of the word, we are offended by the malicious intent behind it. In this particular case, Davis' use of the phrase had nothing to do with race or slavery. So why would anyone take it that way?
The stalinist alt right are just too funny.
No, dudes, we don't live in the 1950s, and the term in the context of the NBA in 2018 is insensitive.
I don't care if you are mad.
The announcer accepted his slave punishment. You are an abject hypocrite.To your hypocrisy, of course. You created a fallacy of false equivalency, a showed you the error of your way, then you have doubled down on your hypocrisy.So you admit to the hypocrisy.Yup, it is the same. A slave used to get a one-day suspension of pay for calling his owner a honkey.Ironic in that Davis is reacting as a virtual slave to PC.
The announcer admits he was wrong.
Those who do not understand the importance of context and intent think like you, yes.The stalinist alt right are just too funny.
No, dudes, we don't live in the 1950s, and the term in the context of the NBA in 2018 is insensitive.
I don't care if you are mad.
Context is irrelevant if there is no intent. And people get offended because they choose to.
But those are only "every day words" because racism was , for so long, an "every day, normal thing".Wait until you're suspended without pay for saying every day words.
No, not exactly. When you are trying to extinguish a behavior, intent may inform the depth of the penalty, but not the existence of a penalty in the first place.Context is irrelevant if there is no intent.
Those who do not understand the importance of context and intent think like you, yes.The stalinist alt right are just too funny.
No, dudes, we don't live in the 1950s, and the term in the context of the NBA in 2018 is insensitive.
I don't care if you are mad.
Context is irrelevant if there is no intent. And people get offended because they choose to.
Wait until you're suspended without pay for saying every day words.
Whoever is running that show must be drunker than 10 Indians in a whiskey factory. Why the Thunder organization is more confusing than a Chinese gang bang. What a bunch of Polacks. Don’t they know their team is in redneck country? Political correctness makes me want toAnyone doubt civilization is imploding?
Oklahoma City Thunder Suspends Announcer After 'Cotton Picking' Comment
I have read the OP's link very carefully.
I feel that Mr. Davis, the announcer, was very mature and professional in acknowledging that his use of that phrase was "insensitive."
And a one-game suspension seemed to be fair.
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This is 2018.
This country is very much divided and apparently becoming more divided every day when it comes to ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.
We all have to be super careful not to unintentionally hurt the feelings of other groups.
*****
A few years ago, two announcers were criticized for referring to an American athlete as an "Oriental." They claimed that they did not know that the word was now considered offensive. One of the last acts of the Obama administration was to forbid the word "Oriental" to be used in government documents.
No, not exactly. When you are trying to extinguish a behavior, intent may inform the depth of the penalty, but not the existence of a penalty in the first place.Context is irrelevant if there is no intent.
Toddlers don't necessarily intend to commit suicide or defy you, when they run into a busy street. But you would still negatively reinforce the extinguishing of that behavior.
That makes zero sense. Nobody forced this private business to punish it's announcer. If they were doing something you agreed with, you would be applauding them.I have read the OP's link very carefully.
I feel that Mr. Davis, the announcer, was very mature and professional in acknowledging that his use of that phrase was "insensitive."
And a one-game suspension seemed to be fair.
*****
This is 2018.
This country is very much divided and apparently becoming more divided every day when it comes to ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.
We all have to be super careful not to unintentionally hurt the feelings of other groups.
*****
A few years ago, two announcers were criticized for referring to an American athlete as an "Oriental." They claimed that they did not know that the word was now considered offensive. One of the last acts of the Obama administration was to forbid the word "Oriental" to be used in government documents.
We cannot live in peace, if normal word usage gives an member of a protected class, the power to have someone punished.
That is a recipe for division and strife.
Obviously....the uttering of a phrase that has origins of being demeaning to a whole swath of people who have been oppressed, historically, in the same spirit as the meaning of the phrase: as slaves and as subhumans. Come on man, you could have figured that out.What behavior are we talking about here?
The PC zealots know it's not racist, but that's not why they react the way they do.Answer a question for me: If I am a black man and someone uses the phrase "cotton picking" and I know this person is not racist and did not intend it that way, that it was used as a euphemism for a more obscene alternative, and knowing that slaves were not the only people who picked cotton, why would I be offended?
Obviously....the uttering of a phrase that has origins of being demeaning to a whole swath of people who have been oppressed, historically, in the same spirit as the meaning of the phrase: as slaves and as subhumans. Come on man, you could have figured that out.What behavior are we talking about here?
