Nope, neither team is important to me. But if you mean hate exists at games you’re right.
Jazz ban 2nd fan for calling Westbrook "boy"
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Nope, neither team is important to me. But if you mean hate exists at games you’re right.
It was. To me at least.
carolinajazz
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Same boat that I'm in!
What a hoot this thread is......
Political Correctness is the heart and soul of racism. It is Teach telling the kids manners, who and what they should be and do, as well as say. It's Massah telling the shoeshine *** how to kneel and polish them Bigshot Shoes.
The whole idea of anyone "laying down the law" on social graces inherently implies those laying down the law are the superior ones, and those who need the law read to them are the new "boy" class.
I don't imagine our political stooge activists will give a ratzazz what I say, and I realize that if I try to lay the law down on them, I'd be doin' the same thing, but lets just say it's a problem inherent to human nature that can't really ever be solved.
The harder we try to make others do right, the worse we become....
Well, except the way Jesus said it.... anyone who is considerate or caring about others might be appreciated.... or not...
But it doesn't matter if you're appreciated or not. What matters is that you do the good things towards others, whoever they are.
The fine art of virtue will always boil down to fixing yourself, not the other guy.
I appreciate EM's kindly-meant sentiments generalizing about Utahns. Utah could be the world's greatest exporter of good intentions of all time, what with all the Conference broadcasts and the thousands of missionaries going everywhere in the world where they're permitted by the local governments. Or the real, tangible LDS contributions to areas in emergency distress. And I don't think exactly that those good intentions miss the mark, or pave the road to Hell in this case.
Utah has state law that makes this place a center for single mothers wishing to give up their newborn for adoption. We get hundreds of young women every week. Adoption agencies pay for their stay here and their medical expenses, plus some. Like all "good intentions" this can be criticized. Some say adoption agencies are doing it all for the money, or that the young mothers are doing it for the money.... maybe doing it on purpose for the money.....I don't know how to judge it, I just don't know what is in the human heart. I know the intent of those laws was to give relief to people in stress, to give a real choice other than abortion....
I believe @EM deserves a lot of credit for his lifelong work on the subject of The Underground Railroad as it pertains to the efforts made to liberate slaves from the South prior to the Civil War.
It is actually astounding how many LDS families are adopting babies, many of them black. The programs running under Utah's law are saving black lives, and bringing the children into a culture, in Mormonism today, that literally goes into automatic overreach on every consideration to make them welcome. A sort of modern "underground railroad" of hope.
In that context, The Jazz official remonstrances to fan catcalls is just normal life here in Utah today.
Political Correctness is the heart and soul of racism. It is Teach telling the kids manners, who and what they should be and do, as well as say. It's Massah telling the shoeshine *** how to kneel and polish them Bigshot Shoes.
The whole idea of anyone "laying down the law" on social graces inherently implies those laying down the law are the superior ones, and those who need the law read to them are the new "boy" class.
I don't imagine our political stooge activists will give a ratzazz what I say, and I realize that if I try to lay the law down on them, I'd be doin' the same thing, but lets just say it's a problem inherent to human nature that can't really ever be solved.
The harder we try to make others do right, the worse we become....
Well, except the way Jesus said it.... anyone who is considerate or caring about others might be appreciated.... or not...
But it doesn't matter if you're appreciated or not. What matters is that you do the good things towards others, whoever they are.
The fine art of virtue will always boil down to fixing yourself, not the other guy.
I appreciate EM's kindly-meant sentiments generalizing about Utahns. Utah could be the world's greatest exporter of good intentions of all time, what with all the Conference broadcasts and the thousands of missionaries going everywhere in the world where they're permitted by the local governments. Or the real, tangible LDS contributions to areas in emergency distress. And I don't think exactly that those good intentions miss the mark, or pave the road to Hell in this case.
Utah has state law that makes this place a center for single mothers wishing to give up their newborn for adoption. We get hundreds of young women every week. Adoption agencies pay for their stay here and their medical expenses, plus some. Like all "good intentions" this can be criticized. Some say adoption agencies are doing it all for the money, or that the young mothers are doing it for the money.... maybe doing it on purpose for the money.....I don't know how to judge it, I just don't know what is in the human heart. I know the intent of those laws was to give relief to people in stress, to give a real choice other than abortion....
I believe @EM deserves a lot of credit for his lifelong work on the subject of The Underground Railroad as it pertains to the efforts made to liberate slaves from the South prior to the Civil War.
It is actually astounding how many LDS families are adopting babies, many of them black. The programs running under Utah's law are saving black lives, and bringing the children into a culture, in Mormonism today, that literally goes into automatic overreach on every consideration to make them welcome. A sort of modern "underground railroad" of hope.
In that context, The Jazz official remonstrances to fan catcalls is just normal life here in Utah today.
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So a fan in OKC at the OKC vs Toronto game apparently called siakim the N word (not the version with "a" at the end but the hard "er" version) while he was shooting a free throw
I wonder if we will see all the sportcenter guys and first take and all the other commentators debating about the racism of the OKC fans.
Wonder if the OKC owners will ban that fan for life.
Wonder if the OKC owner will make a speech about racism and sportsmanship before next game.
Any special t-shirts gonna be made?
Saying the N word is worse than calling someone boy or telling them to get on their knees and even worse than telling someone to ice their knees as well (I have her to see or hear anything proving which version was correct).
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I wonder if we will see all the sportcenter guys and first take and all the other commentators debating about the racism of the OKC fans.
Wonder if the OKC owners will ban that fan for life.
Wonder if the OKC owner will make a speech about racism and sportsmanship before next game.
Any special t-shirts gonna be made?
Saying the N word is worse than calling someone boy or telling them to get on their knees and even worse than telling someone to ice their knees as well (I have her to see or hear anything proving which version was correct).
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Hey Al, thanks for the ad.
I might be in for some real competition here after all, I see.
I might not really ever achieve "The Longest Thread Ever", but I might have the top 100 longest epic comments.....
or the most "tl/dnr", "never read" comments.....
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nah. Not an Okie issue, imo.
I'm not an expert on Okie issues. I had a friend once from there, his name was Lincoln......He was our Janitor. He was I think black, but like a lot of the "natives" of "The Nations" maybe a mix. I think there is a huge cultural element there like that, so an "Okie" fan would perhaps be privileged in the sense of brotherly love with a license to use the family terms.
Lincoln was in my mind a real "American". His work was conscientious, thorough....he left a shine on everything.... and he was always in good humor while doing it, good for some humor, a bright character who would light up the room when he walked in..... even with his mop bucket or trash cart.
The Thriller
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This thread is still alive? Wow
As is racism.