THIS IS A REPOST. IN THE ORIGINAL POST I WAS CONFUSING THE NAMES OF TWO OF THE STORY'S PRINCIPLES, STERLING AND SILVER BUT THINK ABOUT THAT ... STERLING SILVER .. COINCIDENCE?
Donald Stering is a bigot
The owner of the LA Clippers NBA team is a scared old man who got himself a little trophy arm candy and apparently spends his days living in fear of said eye candy actually finding a man more virile and interesting than himself ... a big fear as it seems that would be a very deep pool
Sterling has probably been a bigot his entire life, that's how it works. He is a very old man and he will be a bigot until the day he dies
You can't change that. Not now, not at this stage of his life. Bigots do not have the acuity of mind to be able to change it, they are scared people and their fear over rides anything else.
Donald Sterling's thoughts are repellent and ignorant but they're his thoughts. And now he's being punished for them
He's being punished for his thoughts. Think about that
Sterling expressed these racist thoughts during a phone conversation with this girlfriend, the aforementioned eye candy. Although the woman claims that Silver understood that their private conversations were being recorded I think it's more likely that the old bigot thought that he was having a private talk with a person with whom he was intimate
Unlike like former Cincinnati Reds owner Marg Schott, who made her proclamation of "that Hitler he had some great ideas" in a setting (I think it was a restaurant) where many people could overhear, Sterling thought he was having a one on one conversation in private places
The fact that this private conversation became public seems out of Sterling's control, I don't think he intended it He's been a bigot a long time, he owns a team in a pro sports league where the majority of players are black men, even if he does not agree with the consequences of making such statements public, he knows the danger therein
And danger there is. For expressing his opinion, no matter how dumb ass and pathetic, he has been banned for life for being around the team he owns and the NBA will try to take said team away from him
Sterling is not being "punished" for discriminatory hiring practices in the NBA (the coach of his team is the great Doc Rivers who happens to be black and the majority of the players are black) or for making racist comments about NBA players or black people in general in an NBA forum or an interview etc
Clearly the NBA has been embarressed by this incident This man is an owner, an owner of a team in a high profile city (imagine if it was the Lakers, he'd probably be hung by now) and the newly appointed NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, is a white man .. again. So what we have here is spin doctory in the direction of political correctness
Political correctness is insidious, it tries, through force of institution, to change our thinking to correct our thinking, to bring people's thinking into whatever stream of expression they deem acceptable. Gosh that sure sounds like thought control to me
Donald Sterling is a bigot. He is sad and pathetic. He has a mind full of worms. After all this he still will have a mind full of worms. Many many many people do. They also will still maintain this mindset. But now perhaps they will learn that the worms in their head can be eaten by the worms in the heads of certain other people
You think bad, stop thinking bad, think like us. Or we will spank you
When I meet a person and they spout racist drivel at me I stop speaking to them. I dismiss them, I cut them out of my life. That is not punishment for them, it's relief for myself. I have no right to punish anyone else and I know it won't make a damn bit of difference.
I may not like the worms in their heads but it's their head They have the right to fill it with whatever shit they deem. I have to accept that. If I don't, what happens if someone doesn't like the worms in my own head ....
I think the person who believes they have the right to dig around in anyone else's head has the biggest darkest nastiest worms of all
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