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Whitlock with a good article on the Riley Cooper situation
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/w...d-learn-080113
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Ding Ding! This is totally right on. In a fight, you are going to insult who you are fighting. Your words are weapons. If the guy was short, he might have called him a midget or something. Doesn't excuse that he is a dumbass and lost his self control, but I see this as more of an anger control issue than a racist issue. The word is hurtful and shouldn't be said, but only he knows in his heart if he is a racist. I would have put the idiot through anger management counseling before sensitivity training. Also needs to watch the booze.
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I n-bombed a dude at a bar one time about ten years ago. He had randomly poured a drink down the cleavage of a girl who was in my group at the bar. I confronted him, and he made a threat about he and his friends ****ing me up. I responded with something along the lines of "if we have to take this outside, there's going to be one less n-word in this world, and those cops outside will help me dig the hole." It wasn't about having racism in my heart. It was about holding a losing hand and having to make a big enough bluff that he couldn't afford to call it. I was a well dressed white guy in a club with a bunch of crew cut sporting white police officers standing outside by the door, and he and his friends left. I'm not particularly proud of it, but I did what I felt I had to do at the time to get into his head. I think Cooper was trying to intimidate the guy, so he chose to call the guy the n-word at a concert full of white people. I'm sure the guy was intimidated. If I were working a NAS concert, and a huge back guy threatened to fight every cracker there, I'd shit my pants. It wouldn't mean the guy was racist. It would just mean he knew how to intimidate me given the circumstances.
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Well Darren Sharper would go to management and tell them he couldn't play with the guy. I think maybe he should read this article.
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If I call you a "fat piece of $3it" in anger it doesn't mean I hate fat people. I'm fat. I'm just angry and picking the one thing I think will piss you off the most. The idea that one insult is worse than another is your problem to deal with...
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great point
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I saw Michael Wilbon on a PTI clip overly upset about Goodell not suspending Riley Cooper.
I like how FIFA soccer and the pro leagues suspend players and sanction teams who fans make racist cheers, but if the NFL were to adopt some policy for racial slurs that were said at work or away from work then there would be a big argument about whether racial epithets that refer to the player's own race should result in suspensions. I don't see how the NFL could justify overlooking some use of forbidden racial words based on the race of the person who says it. I remember Carl Pickens got into some hot water for saying something to Mike Woodson about his mixed-race parents during a game. That was years ago and may have been a fine, but I don't think there was a suspension.
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But he works for the owner, GM, and HC. If they want to fire/fine him that's their choice...
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I find it hilarious though. I have HEARD during games, the N***A word thrown around at packers games, and at bucks games, during the games, between players of like races. I don't think that's acceptable EITHER. You are just encouraging inequity.......
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Impressive read.
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I agree with that. I was commenting on Wilbon criticizing Roger Goodell for not suspending Cooper, but don't blame the team for doing anything that does not violate the CBA.
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What is ironic to me is that Cooper, due to his ethnicity and position of choice in football, has probably been discriminated against due to his whiteness more than others in the same position. He's often referred to as a "white" wide receiver.
I'll wager that Cooper has endured FAR more insults regarding his race from black players in college and the nfl than he's given. It doesn't make what he said right, but It would be interesting to have him mic'd up this season to see what the black players say to him week in and week out. |
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I just watched the movie 42. They say the N word a million times as well as in Django unchanined. I think this is far more repulsive. Put on a rap record and it is filled with it- but does that make it okay since they are black? I guess I don't understand- the word is offensive and demeaning no matter who says it IMO.
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