DALLAS -- Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks the NBA would be a better league without Donald Sterling in it, but Cuban called the potential scenario of forcing the Los Angeles Clippers owner to sell the team in wake of the racist comments allegedly made by him "a slippery slope."Read the whole thing here.
Cuban was one of several NBA owners to make strong comments about Sterling on Monday, a day before commissioner Adam Silver was scheduled to hold a news conference in New York to announce the league's investigation into the issue.
However, Cuban was the only one to express concern about the precedent that could be set by forcing Sterling to leave the league.
"I think there's a [league] constitution for a reason, right?" Cuban said before Game 4 of the Mavericks-San Antonio Spurs series. "Because this is a very slippery slope. What Donald said was wrong. It was abhorrent. There's no place for racism in the NBA, any business I'm associated with, and I don't want to be associated with people who have that position.
"But at the same time, that's a decision I make. I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope.
Consider all the conversations that you've ever had that you thought were private. Think about the blowback if those conversations became public.
Now consider the idea that those ramifications could become enshrined as part of "standard operating procedure" in our society.
Life became even more dangerous for us guys. Everyone is looking at this as a racial incident. I see it as a battle between the sexes. Right now the ladies have just imposed another penalty for us. No conversation can be considered off limits...even private ones.
Ignore me if you want but pillow talk/an argument with your GF can now be a career killer. I once told my Marines to talk shit but don't you dare touch her. Now? If she's raging just get the fuck out. Don't give her a chance to get pissed just go see the OOD and get a room in the barracks for the night. We'll fix it the next day.
War has been declared and chicks are winning.
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ReplyDelete" I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope."
ReplyDeleteYes. Free speech should be sacred.
On the female angle, Solomon is correct, and one can see its influence in the current bogus "sexual assault" furor. (I refer here to touching not to talking.)
The Pentagon used findings from the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Members (WGRA) as a source of information to evaluate sexual harassment and sexual assault prevention and response programs and to assess the gender-relations environment in the active duty force.
The survey had ‘Unwanted Sexual Contact’ as one of its possible selections. It was then estimated that 26,000 active duty members (out of 1.4 million) experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in the year, and then sexual contact was converted to sexual assaults.
The headlines we've all seen:
Pentagon: Estimated 26,000 Sexual Assaults In Military
Now there are three broad categories of ‘unwanted sexual contact’:
o Penetration of any orifice,
o Attempted Penetration and
o Unwanted Sexual Touching (without penetration).
Why is the ‘Unwanted Sexual Contact’ used for the survey instead of the actual categories of crimes found in the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
• The term ‘unwanted sexual contact’ and its definition was created with the assistance of DoD attorneys to help laymen taking the survey better relate their experience of the several types of sexual assault addressed by military law and the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program.
• The vast majority of active duty members would not know the difference between the crimes of "Sexual Assault", "Aggravated Sexual Contact", or "Forcible Sodomy" described in Articles 120 and 125, UCMJ. As a result, the term ‘unwanted sexual contact’ was created so that respondents could read the definition provided and readily understand the kinds of behavior covered by the survey.
So many females (AND males) responded positive to 'unwanted sexual touching/contact' and that was the basis for "26,000 Sexual Assaults In Military."
**friendly touch = sexual assault**
SO DON"T TOUCH ANYBODY
No victory hugs, no slaps on the back, no touching of hands -- nothing.