Posted on 04/07/2014 12:51:15 PM PDT by EveningStar
The home-run king is lucky he didn't have to contend with the ubiquitous bigots and haters on today's social media ...
We might conclude that Aaron got off easy four decades ago, long before social media dominated every facet of our lives and removed any shred of privacy.
Just try to imagine how much more intense and challenging his predicament would have been. Can you picture the potential for incessant racist taunts on Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the blogosphere? In the 1970s, the haters reached Aaron by what we call “snail mail.” Today, in our sped-up-world of modern communications, Aaron would have had no escape...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
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Content of character no longer makes sense to these people...simply put, if you disagree with them and their ilk, you’re labeled a racist.
What a moronic column. Time has finally gone full-bore nutzo. What a change from the days of Henry and Clare Booth Luce.
When Maris was challenging Ruth’s record, virtually every old-timer was against him. Many said that he couldn’t have played in Ruth’s days. But of course they said that about all the modern players at the time.
Aaron hit one of the longest shots ever in the old Polo Grounds. He was no short hitter.
Cobb’s own teammates couldn’t stand him. Nobody liked him. When he died, virtually no one showed up for his funeral.
Don’t click late.
That’s what so great about liberals. They love America so much they won’t leave until she’s totally beaten down.
This kind of thinking has grown very old and tiresome like TIME magazine itself.
New word: "Denialism" = "Rejection of PC/GlobalWarming/Communist Education Goals" .....
This people really, really are moral vermin.
Does that help add perspective?
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Tell it to Brendan Eich.
A little too close ..... that's what happened to that little kid that got sick on the ocean-racing yacht.
Her parents emporculated the mutt when they took a kid that small into a Mexican port .... the very air is alive down there with crap that will kill a grown man.
He said, having visited Cancun and lived, while people in his party of ~50 gringos were getting deathly sick all around him, up to about 50%.
The only people living under worse racism today are white citizens.
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So because Peruvians yell insults today, Hank Aaron would have faced a tougher time in the US nowadays?
Not really very well thought out. You can ignore Twitter. Shouted or mailed threats would be harder to ignore.
Could it be that this “writer” is laying some groundwork to ban all but Correct Thought from the ‘net?
....I’ve seen far less justification come out of libs’ mouths.
He was no weakling, but he was definitely a line-drive hitter. He’d probably have a hard time reaching the upper deck in most ballparks — not because he wasn’t strong enough to get a ball there, but because he wasn’t known for hitting towering fly balls.
Articles like this indicate that the charge of racism is on life support. The “Racism!” club that the left has constantly used over the decades can’t be left to wither away.
This withering is also evidenced by leftists performing acts of “racist truthiness”, again and again, especially on college campuses, to gin up outrage against the Man.
Thanks! I used to be a real baseball history and trivia buff. :-)
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