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All of it is....there's no argument at all....I heard so many high school kids use "gay" to describe anything they didn't like when my son was still in school....often when they played video games...homophobia is real but kids say horrible shit when they play those games online often. I've lectured them about it when they visited our home. I've seen all kinds of racism...non of it gets a pass for being stupid to begin with
Based on most message board demographics, I’m assuming everyone in this thread complaining about the word aren’t even personally impacted by it and are almost all White people. Dumb thing for Leonard to say and he’s paying a price for it. Oh well...
There's no doubt there's a double standard about racism...when I was in the military I heard racial slurs from people of all backgrounds....I always said that it's no different for a black soldier to use a certain asian slur than it is for a Hispanic or Cuacasian or Native American...etc....it's racist and being of a certain race doesn't change that when people target other ethnic groups...Meyers has buddies in the military...a brother and he's friends with some Navy Seal guys too...I can guess where he learned to talk like that...probably read it in a book of theirs
What kinda moron live streams COD anyway, everyone knows how people are on there. Not excusing the guy, but that was his first mistake. It also sounded like he thought about what he was gonna say and said it anyway. Stupid moron. Good luck finding another NBA job. He’s not good enough to be worth the baggage.
I don't think complaining is the right word here. I'm talking about the reality of what's about to happen to him. Whether I'm personally impacted by it or not is irrelevant. I have no control over his destiny. His fate is set.
So its okay to offend other ethnicities because he stood up to honor his brother? They are not correlative. He doesn't get a pass because of his color or what else he stands for. And "nobody cared" about what Kobe said? I did. So you don't get to tell me I didn't care.
He used a word that was instilled in him. As a person. It doesn't matter if it impacts you personally or not, he made the cognitive choice to say that word. Its a part of who he is. End of story.
This is the classic garbage response to things like this. It comes in several forms, but it's all the same: they did it first, so this doesn't count; that is worse, so this doesn't count; no one reacted to that, so you can't react to this; blah blah blah.
I was very “fortunate” because at a very young age I had a grandfather that taught me each and every “proper” word to call someone who was not white (or Catholic/Protestant). Fortunately, at a young age I knew very clearly that my grandfather was one of life’s true assholes. So the words never stuck. Monkey doesn’t always do what monkey sees.....or hears.
Welcome to the Bigot Revolt! You tell 'em, brother! No one cared then, why we care now? Yee-fucking-haw!
Odd thing to say. You're suggesting only black people should care about slurs against black people, only Jews should care about slurs against Jewish people, etc? Or is this some attempt at the silly canard that minorities don't even mind slurs, it's just overactive white liberals that care about slurs?
