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Kevin Durant - Racist Remarks on Hayward....surprised...

It's mostly awesome and sometimes ridiculous how the anonymity of the internet provides such fertile soil for delicate flowers to bloom.
 
silesian said:
You try to disguise an insult to the intelligence of a group of people by paralleling an innocent joke that is offensive to no one.

Offensive. Unnecessary. Rude. Neg repped.
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You don't speak for everyone. There absolutely are people that are offended by his comment (admittedly, I am not). My comment was tongue-in-cheek, as was Durant's (if this wasn't obvious).
 
For the record, I'm a white guy, and I'm not very athletic. At all. I sure like sports, though. And documentaries, indie music, hiking, and lattes. All true.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
My opinion is that political correctness sucks, so I'm on the opposite end of this spectrum from you. I was being sarcastic when I suggested that it would be offensive if it was the other way around, but that might have gotten lost in translation. I'm sick and tired of people who are always looking for something to be offended about, or even worse, for something that they think some group they don't even belong to ought to get offended about.
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That's a pretty insightful comment....for a moron. (I hope everyone can interpret the sarcasm here).
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
I know it's a joke, but to me comments like this are rarely, if ever, appropriate. These comments just perpetuate and reinforce a stereotype. Just because that stereotype is about the majority (instead of a minority) doesn't make it appropriate.
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i never like the excuse that something is okay because of the position of the speaker in relation to the object of the accusation. Groups size does not make right or wrong. And group size is always relative. With a little creativity a person could find a group in which Hayward is in the minority and Durant n the majority. Far better to avoid such limiting clauses in your speech. That shouldn't be hard to do, even for Jazzfanz.
 
silesian said:
You try to disguise an insult to the intelligence of a group of people by paralleling an innocent joke that is offensive to no one.

Offensive. Unnecessary. Rude. Neg repped.
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You broke the number one rule of offense. You never get to say what is or isn't offensive to someone else. Ever.
 
mellow said:
i never like the excuse that something is okay because of the position of the speaker in relation to the object of the accusation. Groups size does not make right or wrong. And group size is always relative. With a little creativity a person could find a group in which Hayward is in the minority and Durant n the majority. Far better to avoid such limiting clauses in your speech. That shouldn't be hard to do, even for Jazzfanz.
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In the NBA, Hayward is a minority.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
It was a joke. We should laugh.

Now, if it had been a white guy making a joke about a black guy of course that would be an entirely different matter.
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This. Black guys are allowed jokes about race.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
My opinion is that political correctness sucks, so I'm on the opposite end of this spectrum from you. I was being sarcastic when I suggested that it would be offensive if it was the other way around, but that might have gotten lost in translation. I'm sick and tired of people who are always looking for something to be offended about, or even worse, for something that they think some group they don't even belong to ought to get offended about.
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Great post
 
olden_undercover said:
For the record, I'm a white guy, and I'm not very athletic. At all. I sure like sports, though. And documentaries, indie music, hiking, and lattes. All true.
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Lol
 
I'm white, can't jump high, not a very good dancer, and my penis is average sized
 
My god people are offended so easily. KD should be able to say "Hayward is athletic for a cracker" without any scrutiny. Grow some balls people.
 
Maktub said:
In the NBA, Hayward is a minority.
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So he was insulted by being complimented and even though it was a joke we get to be collectively offended instead (hooray!) because we've successfully defined him as a minority which means he is obviously in need of majority protection... and in the NBA the fans are the majority by a wide margin (unless you consider the world's non-fans to be a part of this system and in that case the fans are again a minority) but since the non-fans by definition don't even care about all the problems we are discovering here, not only doesn't their non-opinion of the matter not matter because they don't even know it exists, but we also get to be offended by their inaction since, as the majority, they ought to be doing something about it.
 
Durant is pretty smart.......for a Black guy.




Your awesome I love the response. The reality is that it is ok for anyone to attack white males, but heaven forbid we say anything back. Racism hardly exists in the USA. I think "culturelism" does and there is nothing wrong with not liking a certain culture and not wanting it to invade the culture that we have. Far to many people get racism mixed with not liking how people act.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
It was a joke. We should laugh.

Now, if it had been a white guy making a joke about a black guy of course that would be an entirely different matter.
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Exactly. Damn, this country has become so PC. Nowadays I wonder if that movie "White Men Can't Jump" would even get made. Or how about that basketball scene in the old "Airplane" movie? People just need to lighten up. It was actually a compliment by Durant.
 
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