Posted on 04/30/2014 1:03:10 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
If and when Sterling becomes an ex-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, how can the NBA keep him from attending a Bulls-Knicks game in Chicago, for example, if he walks in just like everyone else?
If Sterling can be banned, can some person who posts racially-charged epithets online on whatever online media platform be identified by the NBA as an "undesirable" - a persona non grata - and summarily "banned" from all NBA games?
Are we now in the age where the owner of a "restaurant" who said no to blacks eating in his restaurant is booted out, his restaurant bought, and then he is banned from eating in that "restaurant?"
But Adam Silver's desire seems, seems to go beyond wanting him banned from just that one "restaurant."
Banned from ALL NBA "restaurants?"
Can one hunt monsters and become a monster?
a ban for being christian, or maybe white.
Wee, there is that adultery thing. It's one of the big 10, while being a racist, or rather using racist language (they're not the same thing), doesn't even crack the list.
>Wee, there is that adultery thing.
OMG,reread what I wrote...the last sentence.
He’s an asshole and he’s being shown the door. No different than a bouncer at a nightclub. He has the right to say whatever he wants, but people he does business with have the right to no longer want to associate themselves with him.
There is a hotel here in Santa Monica called the Shangri-La..its owned by a Pakistani millionaire..a few years ago the hotel was sued because an Israeli wanted to stay at the hotel, he was told by the Pakistani owner “We don’t want any Jews at this hotel” no one forced him out, no one forced him to sell it..its such a double standard..as far as Sterling selling the team, its not gonna happen, he should fight for his team its HIS team, maybe he can transfer the team to his wife or his daughter..otherwise he should pull the “If I go down I will take this team down with me” he has nothing left to lose
I read today on Newsbusters that they want to start banning owners who are for traditional marriage..call me Nostradamus because I called that one days ago..you know how bad this is, even that Commie scum bag Bill Maher thinks this is wrong..doesn’t that schmuck own part of the Mets?
I think the fact that the tape was illegally recorded and illegally released has something to do with it. I’ve been tols that it has nothing to do with it, but I’m not convinced. The way I see it, Sterling is the victim of a crime. He’s an asshole, but he’s a private asshole, and what was released was done criminally and against his will. So how is he responsible for it? And if he’s not responsible, how did “he” break his morals clause with the NBA? In fact, how did the NBA not bring bad PR on itself by acting so precipitously, instead of having a quiet investigation?
For example, what if he claims that he used racist terminology against her on the phone to shame her for sleeping around on him. What if he claims that SHE is actually a racist, and is acting out in a self-loathing way by sleeping with black guys SHE believes are lesser people because of theier skin color. What if he then claims that he insulted her with HER OWN racism on the phone as a form of tough love, to snap her out of her own self-loathing behavior. And then what if he says that she released this tape out of context in a hateful reaction to him showing her her self-abusive activity - which was sleeping around, and not sleeping around with black guys. So he could claim that the problem with HER is that she’s a racist, and the phone call is being heard completely out of context.
See? That’s what I mean by it’s a PRIVATE phone call. It could be part of ANYTHING. And it was released by a woman who is being sued by Sterling for embezzling millions of dollars from him, so of course it is also suspect for that!
Morals clause or not, there is a procedure for investigating such things within the contract world. And you can be sure that Sterling’s lawyers are going to sue the NBA for publically slandering him, violating those procedures, and not performing a proper investigation which now cannot be doen because of the public shaming that denies him a forumn for reply or defense. The guy is a billionaire, he’s not going to take this sitting down.
The NBA acted stupidly and politically and turned on one of their own. And they did it to push the idea that people can be destroyed without due process for being called racists by a mob, without any opportunity to defend themselves. This is a left-wing showpiece play designed to push the destruction agenda of the Left, nothing less.
People need to wake up.
The next thing will be “thought police” in the country. I think this was overblown more than anything I can remember of late. Why is Jeremiah wright still allowed to preach at his “church” if this was offensive? Talk about hate speech, he has the market cornered on that issue.
Oh wait, he is one of holder’s people.
Why would anyone want to pay money to watch pro basketball. I don’t even watch it free on TV.
She's part Black herself according to the media.
What if he then claims that he insulted her with HER OWN racism on the phone as a form of tough love, to snap her out of her own self-loathing behavior.
Well, no. If he's involved with a much younger part-Black part-Mexican woman and doesn't want her hanging around with Black men but doesn't object to her sleeping with them -- really, no way this becomes about her "racism" rather than his. You will hear a lot about her craziness and venality, but the race card isn't something Sterling will be able to play.
The NBA acted stupidly and politically and turned on one of their own. And they did it to push the idea that people can be destroyed without due process for being called racists by a mob, without any opportunity to defend themselves. This is a left-wing showpiece play designed to push the destruction agenda of the Left, nothing less.
For some people in the media this is a birthday gift or Christmas present -- something that they can use to support all the points they want to make. For some it may be kind of a pain. They have to keep saying over and over again how bad and horrible Sterling is so that nobody thinks that they approve of what he said. That gets exhausting after a while. For the NBA, that's something like 78% African-American -- they were going to decide this the way they did, left-wing agenda or not.
Yes. They can. Someone would have to recognize him and tell NBA security.
I don’t think Pete Rose goes to baseball games.
We stopped watching NBA games years ago when we realized the officiating was rigged. This was before the NBA official came out and admitted it.
This type of stuff happens every day in corporate America. People are fired for having affairs, inappropriate behavior, talking trash about their company, getting drunk at the office party...any one of a million reasons.
This happened to be on TMZ.
The first amendment is fine. The government cannot curtail free speech. That doesn’t mean companies cannot. They can, and they do every day. And 99.9% of the time it is a legitimate business decision.
“This is a left-wing showpiece play designed to push the destruction agenda of the Left, nothing less.”
Yes indeed.
Panem et circenses (bread and circuses).
Yes. Private businesses have the right to ban anyone for any reasons as long as it’s not sex, race, religion, disability (and apparently now sexual orientation). Let’s not compromise our principles for one idiot. Also, the tape might have been illegally obtained, but as far as we know the NBA has nothing to do with it, so they can use it as it is public knowledge. For an example, an employee of yours is caught with child porn on his computer, the case is thrown out on a technicality, can you fire him?
Aren’t most of these arenas owned by the public, paid for with tax dollars, and a private citizen can be banned for freedom of speech occurring in his own home?
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