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Discussion: Mark Cuban Doesn't Think Sterling Should Get The Boot: 'People Are Allowed To Be Morons'
Mark Cuban was well aware of Sterlingās history, yet he considered him a friend. Spoken like a true ONE PERCENT.
As an NBA owner, Mr Cuban, you ARE associated with Sterling. The league has an obligation to protect its brand. As for what Mr Sterling does as opposed to what he thinks or says, his payment of approx $3 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit speak rather loudly, despite his non-admission of wrongdoing.
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āPeople are allowed to be morons.ā Mark Cuban should know. Fined 13 times by the NBA for his loose mouth (to the tune of $1.7M), Iām sure he has sympathy for Sterling.
Thereās a difference between your garden-variety moron (i.e. Mark Cuban) and a venal, poisonous freak who should be seen as a pariah by everyone, 1 percent or not (i.e. Donald Sterling).
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So whatās up TPM? You found a racist 1%er and decided to let the GOP off the hook for supporting armed insurrection against the government?
This is a story, no doubt, but maybe one or two stories. Total. Not ten a day. And certainly not at the exclusion of everything else. Right now there are 15 stories on the front page (not counting EdBlog or Livewire), of which 7 are this story. There is one about Kerryās Isreal comments, one about ObamaCare, and one about Bundy. Does that not seem to be strange priorities?
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One thing this incident will show itās whos,who.No getting around it.
Well, guess what. If you go to the Latest TPM Articles page, you will see that these stories are the ones that get the most comments and views. Sure, a lot of the comments say what you say ā āWhy are you writing all these stories?ā" ā but thatās irrelevant really. They are writing all these stories because the TPM readers are eating them up and commenting on them.
Register your objection by passing on them.
hereās a crosspost for you
"Here for all my friends is something actually worth watching and reading. It is part of the Obama presser in the Philippines yesterday where he makes Ed Henry look like a danged fool, and even better, lays out a full-throated defense of his foreign policy, laying waste to his critics throwing in the Sunday talk shows and arm chair chickenhawks to boot.
Do yourself a favor this morning and take a few minutes to watch.
Obama gives Ed Henry an earful/foreign policy
"
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Donald Sterling isnāt unique in his views. I believe a lot of employers in corporations across the country have the same mentality. Some of them do not hire blacks.
Segregation and discrimination is STILL happening in the U.S. in 2014. Itās just happening in different ways.
Of course Mark Cuban doesnāt think Sterling should be forced out, he probably feels the same about blacks.
I have been passing on them. I think I read and commented on one yesterday, and I commented on two today for the purposes of trying to get people to stop clicking on this story. And you are right, it isnāt so much TPMās fault that they are publishing this as the readers who are clicking it. But HuffPo has proven that if TPM starts to publish sideboob photos people will click on those with gusto as well. But at some level, you have to not give in to the baser part of your audience and hold your organization to a higher standard. Otherwise it is all celebrity sideboob all the time. That is why I like TPM, they normally do have a higher standard of what counts as news. As evidence by the fact that they only publish ~50 stories a day, as opposed to the hundreds other outlets do. They are normally much more selective. They kinda dropped the ball on this one though.
sterling IS a moron, no question about it. but he does NOT have the right to insult his team. he states that black people stink and are dirty. last time I checked, the clippers, his emoyees are about 85% black. he insulted a whole race of people, how can mark defend this? he better be careful what he says, sign up is fast approaching.p
Cuban is just afraid weāll find out what dirty things he does . . . and heāll be kicked out too. What hypocrites these NBA owners are! Canāt imagine why any of these miserable men are allowed to own teams. Just shows you some people can have the American dream and trash it at the same time.
Sterling should not be expelled from the NBA for the contents of his emotional ugly inexcusable conversation with his āgirlfriendā -
Instead, there should be an objective tabulation of all of Sterlingās genuine actions that have been racist, discriminatory and offensive - and it would be for all of this that he should be fined and made to exit the league.
Mark Cuban is living proof of is own assertion.
āPeople are allowed to be moronsā
According to the 1st amendment of the Constitution that is true. We have the Constitutionally protected right to be morons.
Luckily there is no Constitutional requirement to prove it all the time.
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Cubanās half right. You have a constitutional right to be a racist moron and to be able to express those opinions in public. But thereās no constitutional right to own an NBA team while doing so. The league can decide to kick out morally undesirable characters, but it might require some amendment to their bylaws. Which I think they will do if Sterling doesnāt voluntarily divest.
Generally speaking, Cuban is right about actions, rather than speech, should be the basis of punitive action. But, because of the racial makeup of the NBA, this situation should be treated as an exception.
I agree with everything you said. I felt the same way about the Rob Ford coverage, and read very little of it. Iām marginally more interested in this one because Iām a huge basketball fan, I love seeing the epic downfall of the widely loathed Don Sterling, and I think the racism aspects are interesting, contrasted with the sovereign citizen neighbor out in Nevada. But Iām pretty tired of it. It will probably fade from the scene in due time.
people are allowed to be morons ā until they become a drain on someone elseās wallet.
(see: āpeter principleā)