Drop The Phony Race Sanctimony

by Howard Galganov

I am extremely troubled by the Donald Sterling (LA Clippers) incident, not because of what he said in private, even though his words were offensive, but because of how this is being handled all the way from the President’s Office (Obama) to the news media.

The moment we accept that PRIVATE conversation and independent thoughts are subject to CENSORSHIP, coupled with PUNISHMENT, we as a society are done.

I WANT DONALD STERLING TO FIGHT:

I don’t care what rules the NBA have in their ownership contracts . . . NONE of those deserve to include punishment for THOUGHT and PRIVATE speech.

NO FREE SOCIETY CAN TOLERATE THOUGHT POLICE:

And if the NBA really believes that it has both the moral and legal authority to BAN anyone from their own building, club room, and business, because they don’t like what that person thinks or says in PRIVATE, then just shut down the whole miserable league.

PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES ARE AMONGST THE MOST REPRESSIBLE PEOPLE:

And . . . if this type of ORWELLIAN punishment is acceptable to apply to Donald Sterling, then the NBA better start applying it to all of its NBA Players as well, since I’m absolutely 100% certain, that there are no shortage of players who hate Whites, treat women with total disrespect, take drugs, and do and say all kinds of things in their private lives that would make most people cringe.

If the people are that offended by Donald Sterling’s Racist remarks, let them not go to his Clipper games. If the advertisers and sponsors don’t want to be associated with Donald Sterling for his PRIVATE thoughts and comments, they can stop buying ads and sponsoring his team. And if the players are so upset with their boss’s comments, they should stop taking his multi-million dollar paychecks.

But . . . for the NBA to ARBITRARILY decide that Sterling can’t attend any NBA games, NOT EVEN HIS OWN TEAM’S in his own building, is so far over the top, that it defies words. Or that he MUST sell his business and pay a 2.5 million dollar fine, because his PRIVATE thoughts have become public . . . puts this league into the Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong idealism of FREEDOM.

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