Elijah Millsap: Lindsey in exit interview: “if u say one more word, I’ll cut your Black *** and send you back to Louisiana”.
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SteakNEggs
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Damage is already done regardless though. Read the comments.
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This is the power of cancel culture, and the biggest problem with it. In the end it doesn't matter what the truth is, the allegation is enough to ruin reputations.
It is like this. Imagine you move into a new neighborhood. You like the neighborhood, everyone seems nice. You are chatting with your new next-door neighbor and asking him about the other families. He gives you the run-down, everything sounds great, you are happy. Then he says "oh, and Mr. Jones on the corner there, he is the nicest guy, used to hold a barbecue every year. Until those kids said that stuff about him. I mean, don't get me wrong, there was an investigation and everything, they proved it was all made up, and the kids even apologized. He never touched those kids, the cops proved it, so you don't have anything to worry about."
You leave the conversation and go inside. Will you ever be comfortable with your kids in that neighborhood now? What do you instantly think about Mr. Jones, regardless of how open and forgiving you might be? Yeah you likely think of him now as the child molester. It doesn't matter what the truth is, the allegation, the comments alone, are enough to damage his reputation in your eyes before you even meet the guy.
That is the issue I have with cancel culture and you see it in those comments.
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Yeah... people on both sides were super guilty of rushing to conclusions in this very thread.
In serious he said/she said situations, I feel like there is definitely an acceptable middle ground between ignoring the accuser and torching the accused. I also think society in general sucks at finding that middle ground, and most people jump into one side while mentally pushing everybody who disagrees with them into the other.
It's toxic as hell.
If I was ever in a position similar to Dennis Lindsey's and something similar was said about me, I would hope I would respond like this: "I categorically deny this allegation. However, Mr. Millsap seems to feel that I had meant some disrespect in that meeting. If so, I apologize as that was not my intention. I would like to discuss this with him at some point, but in the meantime will fully participate with any investigations necessary. I would hope that if any others with whom I have interacted have felt disrespected by something I have said or done that they will approach me to discuss it. I would be willing to learn from any mistakes I have previously made so that they will not continue in the future."
People who are humble and willing to learn generally get through these incidents much better than others. Elijah felt something that still bothers him, and he obviously felt that this was the moment to bring it up when there is more sympathy toward black viewpoints than at other times in the past. As a white person, it can be difficult to understand the nuances. But I try to take people at their word until proven otherwise. And I feel that both of them believe what they say is true, but that they are coming from different worlds and understandings of what the other may be saying.
People who are humble and willing to learn generally get through these incidents much better than others. Elijah felt something that still bothers him, and he obviously felt that this was the moment to bring it up when there is more sympathy toward black viewpoints than at other times in the past. As a white person, it can be difficult to understand the nuances. But I try to take people at their word until proven otherwise. And I feel that both of them believe what they say is true, but that they are coming from different worlds and understandings of what the other may be saying.
Notes? Why on earth are verbatim notes being taken instead of just recording it? Sounds very fishy.
They'll obviously find nothing, and the Jazz already know this.
None of us will ever know what actually happened.
People who complain about cancel culture are some of the ********* people in society.
Gonna jump in and say he probably thinks something as ludicrous but I'll wait for it to come out if it hasn't already.
That's just paranoia. Unless I committed some sort of ugly, overt act, most people pretty much everyone would rather forgive than punish, usually even the injured person.
So, as a ballpark figure, how many people would Millsap need to contact privately before he publicly discussed what he recalls happening to him, in order for you to not think him a dick? 5? 20? 200?
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One. If the bad behavior merits a firing then atleast tell HR.
SteakNEggs
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Now it's conspiracies.