Anyone who says they didn't use inappropriate words, whether inappropriate words out of context or in correct form, in their youth is a liar. And the older generations, in general, used some of them freely as if it was an accurate or proper way to depict someone. Let's not be so judgmental with an immature 14-year old.
Don't confuse private entities disallowing visitors from speaking as attacking free speech, no one took their free speech away, they took away their platform. No one was threatened by the government or jailed for speaking, they just weren't allowed the stage to present their ideology. However, a lady was convicted for laughing at Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing, now that is an attack on free speech....just not from the side you'd hoped it to be. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us/code-pink-sessions-laughter-trial.html
Zach's agent needs to be fired. Seriously, one of the first jobs an agent needs to do is go over his client's social media accounts. We're not talking about something that is very hard. Also the NBA needs to have an intern go over the social media accounts of every player who declares for the draft. Again, not hard. And if our president gets a pass for saying stupid shit on twitter then a 14yr old should too.
Public universities are nor private entities. As to the original post, meh. There are enough dumb comments made by adults to worry about, teenagers aren't worth the time.
How convenient. Strait by the playbook. If you can't support your position, then just claim the premise is invalid. Next step is to call me a Nazi and you can be finished.
FYI I'm jumping out of this thread as I really hate this kind of trashing of a person for something they said on social media years ago. I understand it is "news" but i would just as soon see us not trash our own players by promoting crap like this.
I supported my position just fine. You're the one who threw out a claim, unsupported by evidence. As Red Rooster noted, a college not offering time for certain points of view is not relevant to free speech, any more than this forum editing posts that don't follow guidelines is "an attack on free speech." Free speech is protection from the government blocking your speech, not private entities. Further, anecdotal incidents aren't evidence for something as sweeping as "taking away freedom of speech." Further, what you consider a novel phenomenon is something that conservatives have alleged for decades. Even if you were right (rather than interpreting events through your philosophical filter), it wouldn't be unique to this generation. Maybe if you actually support your position with evidence, filling in the gigantic logical holes, it wouldn't be labeled "invalid." You can't just toss out a completely unsupported premise, demand the debate assume your premise is true and then sarcastically say that it's "straight out of the playbook" when your premise is taken apart. Not if you want to be taken seriously.
It's interesting that you'd say this, when you've been primarily arguing with me and I didn't trash him. Perhaps there are other reasons you want to "jump out of this" but that's none of my business.
By the way, this suggestive post says more about mediocre man than it does about Collins. You don't like the guy, so you go after something he said, online, as a kid. Classy.
Nothing suggestive. I agree with most of the posters here that it's complete immaturity and innocent. It's Blazer related now, so I posted it.
I don't have a problem with it. Slow Sunday morning in the off season, this is awesome for a basketball forum.
