10-12-2021, 06:37 PM
(10-11-2021, 10:24 PM)Mgbrown66 Wrote: And this from Chapelle’s new Netflix special:
“DaBaby shot and killed a [man] in Walmart in North Carolina. Nothing bad happened to his career," he continued. "Do you see where I'm going with this? In our country, you can shoot and kill a [man], but you better not hurt a gay person's feelings."
Sucks to lose your job over something you said ten years ago, but that’s where we are today.
This.
...and like I said in the other Gruden thread, what he said wasn't inherently racist. He did not say "all black people have big lips". He said Smith had big lips. Saying that statement is racist ironically implies that YOU believe all black people have big lips, which would make you the racist.
If Smith said Gruden had thin lips or a big nose, or called him freckle-face, would we automatically attach it to race? Of course not. I miss when the word "racism" actually had meaning behind it. Now almost anything can be linked to racism. They're usually very shoddy links, but here we are.
What Gruden said was scummy, but not necessarily racism...and tbh, why is racism any worse than any other form of being an a-hole to other human beings? We should all just work on being nicer to other humans in general.
Part of that includes forgiveness. Because humans are prone to sin, and prone to mistakes. That's what makes us human.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
