Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Stirling was banned for life and fined at least $2.5 million for interactive talk with his girlfriend at the time. She seemed to be bullying Stirling into acquiescing into saying he is racist, yet he said he loved blacks yet didn't want her to bring them to his Clippers games. He said that he had a culture or something to be concerned about. I took that to mean that rich people need to seem morally superior and so he wanted her to remain low-profile and not draw attention to herself with people like Magic Johnson. If one is in the business class and not Hugh Hefner one needs traditionally to seem as square as Bill Gates.
It is difficult to imagine Donald Stirling in the company of the Puritans so influenced by John Calvin. Even so it is worth recollecting that one of Martin Luther's biggest mistakes was in supporting his friend Phillip of Hesse-The Landgrave's-bigomy. The Landgrave like Frederick the Elector had been very supportive in trying to safely reconcile various German divisions yet the gratitude perhaps went too far.
Albert Einstein-a physical twin of George LeMaitre-a priestly inventor of big bang theory-in making his self-described biggest blunder of adding a cosmological constant to his General Theory of Relativity actual turned out to have been right about that too. Unlike ordinary mortals Einstein was right even when he thought he was wrong.
Well so much for that genuine Stirling error. Evidently the N.B.A. leadership knows that Stirling really meant that his Clipper's games were for white people only and that he didn't want his girlfriend to be seen with blacks even though she is of mixed up race for-herself and for-others because he is a slum lord and so the tape is just good enough for a lifetime ban. At least Pete Rose was supposed top have gambled enough to go to jail.
Now the public can feel safer and recover from the damage Stirling caused with that horrible 9 minute 26 second conversation.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nba-race-furor/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-fined-2-5m-banned-life-nba-n92671
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-watch-live-nba-donald-sterling-20140429-dto,0,1366821.story
-note; I have no idea about Stirling's slum lord activities. It seems possible that this episode was an effort to get Stirling because of his social history. Even so the big lie is something that traditionally concerns me at the political level. Hitler, holocaust and global warming deniers, Arabs teaching bad stuff about Jews in elementary school books and so forth use the big lie. It would be difficult for an impartial juror with rudiments of language and logic instruction to find much in the recording that Stirling actually deserves such a suspension for. At the least public and private speech implicitly are different things.
-post script; Donald Sterling's former girlfirend or former employee said he is not racist...
http://time.com/86690/v-stiviano-says-donald-sterling-is-not-a-racist/
If Sterling isn't racist the broadcast media and N.B.A. are providing an excellent example of corporatism and political correctness in action. It is no wonder that corporate employees make such milk-toast or no political comments and the two parties are the way they are. American corporate employees need to watch everything they say or big brother will herre and demote them.
It is difficult to imagine Donald Stirling in the company of the Puritans so influenced by John Calvin. Even so it is worth recollecting that one of Martin Luther's biggest mistakes was in supporting his friend Phillip of Hesse-The Landgrave's-bigomy. The Landgrave like Frederick the Elector had been very supportive in trying to safely reconcile various German divisions yet the gratitude perhaps went too far.
Albert Einstein-a physical twin of George LeMaitre-a priestly inventor of big bang theory-in making his self-described biggest blunder of adding a cosmological constant to his General Theory of Relativity actual turned out to have been right about that too. Unlike ordinary mortals Einstein was right even when he thought he was wrong.
Well so much for that genuine Stirling error. Evidently the N.B.A. leadership knows that Stirling really meant that his Clipper's games were for white people only and that he didn't want his girlfriend to be seen with blacks even though she is of mixed up race for-herself and for-others because he is a slum lord and so the tape is just good enough for a lifetime ban. At least Pete Rose was supposed top have gambled enough to go to jail.
Now the public can feel safer and recover from the damage Stirling caused with that horrible 9 minute 26 second conversation.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nba-race-furor/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-fined-2-5m-banned-life-nba-n92671
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-watch-live-nba-donald-sterling-20140429-dto,0,1366821.story
-note; I have no idea about Stirling's slum lord activities. It seems possible that this episode was an effort to get Stirling because of his social history. Even so the big lie is something that traditionally concerns me at the political level. Hitler, holocaust and global warming deniers, Arabs teaching bad stuff about Jews in elementary school books and so forth use the big lie. It would be difficult for an impartial juror with rudiments of language and logic instruction to find much in the recording that Stirling actually deserves such a suspension for. At the least public and private speech implicitly are different things.
-post script; Donald Sterling's former girlfirend or former employee said he is not racist...
http://time.com/86690/v-stiviano-says-donald-sterling-is-not-a-racist/
If Sterling isn't racist the broadcast media and N.B.A. are providing an excellent example of corporatism and political correctness in action. It is no wonder that corporate employees make such milk-toast or no political comments and the two parties are the way they are. American corporate employees need to watch everything they say or big brother will herre and demote them.
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