NFL 2019: Week 13

TheGameguru wrote:

He removed Jackson as a human being who is talented and said because he is black he has an unfair advantage.

I think that's a pretty extreme interpretation of the comment, particularly since it came after about 3 solid hours of praising Lamar's talent.

Painting it with the same brush as Rush Limbaugh's McNabb comments feels disingenuous to me.

*Legion* wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

He removed Jackson as a human being who is talented and said because he is black he has an unfair advantage.

I think that's a pretty extreme interpretation of the comment, particularly since it came after about 3 solid hours of praising Lamar's talent.

Painting it with the same brush as Rush Limbaugh's McNabb comments feels disingenuous to me.

So its ok to be a little racist? I mean is the bar that low?

I don't think anyone here said being even a little racist is ok.

TheGameguru wrote:

So its ok to be a little racist? I mean is the bar that low?

Absent any other context to suggest otherwise, I don't see that comment as being indicative of a discriminative or prejudiced opinion of Lamar Jackson or of black football players in general.

I don't feel this is a comment in which one must give it the most charitable possible reading in order to classify it as not racist. I feel this is a comment in which one must give it the least charitable possible reading in order to classify it as racist.

That said, this isn't a hill that I am particularly interested in dying on. Perhaps I am naive, but if the dog whistle is sounding here, I don't hear it, whereas I have no trouble hearing it in every other example it has been compared to.

This just reminds me and makes me that more sympathetic when my wife gets home and tells me how awful and soul crushing it is just going about her day to day with white people in this world.

TheGameguru wrote:

This just reminds me and makes me that more sympathetic when my wife gets home and tells me how awful and soul crushing it is just going about her day to day with white people in this world.

I'm sorry to make you feel that way. When it comes to topics of race, I find that I agree with your takes overwhelmingly often. I'm sorry we don't see eye to eye in this particular instance.

TheGameguru wrote:

This just reminds me and makes me that more sympathetic when my wife gets home and tells me how awful and soul crushing it is just going about her day to day with white people in this world.

Come on GG, you're better than a sweeping generalization like that.

LeapingGnome wrote:
TheGameguru wrote:

This just reminds me and makes me that more sympathetic when my wife gets home and tells me how awful and soul crushing it is just going about her day to day with white people in this world.

Come on GG, you're better than a sweeping generalization like that.

I'm really not.. my overwhelming feeling is that we are going backwards.. I'm surrounded by white people that just don't give a f*ck.

I'm going to file this away under "it is not up to white folks to tell black folks why a racial insult about black people is not a big deal".

Seriously the f*cking AG of the country is telling non whites to get in line and respect cops or they don't deserve police protection this week. These things don't exist in a vacuum.

Perhaps we should have a week 14 thread and move the race discussion to D&D thread about racism.