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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts) Tue Apr 29, 2014, 03:28 PM Apr 2014

Perhaps Sterling thought his "white privilege" would get him off the hook?

Well he was wrong. And neither did his "male privilege", his "hetersexual privilege", his "cis privilege", or even his socioeconomic privilege.

I applaud the NBA commissioner for sending the message that even casual racism is completely and utterly unacceptable and inexcusable today. It's interesting to speculate on what his punishment (if any) would have been 10, 20, or 50 years ago.

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Perhaps Sterling thought his "white privilege" would get him off the hook? (Original Post) Nye Bevan Apr 2014 OP

It's worked for 80 years gollygee Apr 2014 #1

he did get off the hook for years and would have continued to if the recording was not released JI7 Apr 2014 #2

Good post, Nye! =) AverageJoe90 Apr 2014 #3

Pretty much did. At the end of the day, he's a billionaire. RedCappedBandit Apr 2014 #4

then can we infer Egnever Apr 2014 #5

gollygee

(22,336 posts)

1. It's worked for 80 years

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 03:30 PM

Apr 2014

But yeah today it didn't work. Though he's going to make a mint out of being forced to sell the team.

JI7

(89,252 posts)

2. he did get off the hook for years and would have continued to if the recording was not released

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 03:30 PM

Apr 2014

it took him saying those things for people to do something. and even then there are people who defend him and say it wasn't that bad and blaming the girlfriend for it.

and 2.5 million is nothing to him.