Nice ad hominem.

I'm interested in race relations and the societal shifts through generations, and I think the "liberal crowd" is doing far more damage than good with their current methods. And so I speak up about it. Debate any one of my points, I welcome that.

But instead, you run away from civil discourse and return…

lol, yeah well it doesn't work out in every case.

Harder for kids to get excited about an animal or mythological beast, gotta be able to relate to it a little bit imo, so humanoid mascots were mostly what i was referring to.

Just because no one has ever said it before, doesn't mean it isn't true. It's my opinion, I think it's plenty valid. If you disagree with me, argue the content not the fact that you haven't heard it before.

How is the statement "One way kids get interested in things is through professional sports mascots." You think…

Uh, doubt it. Did you read what I wrote?

Well, no one really thinks sports mascots are mocking them - only people who push their manufactured outrage narrative say that they feel that way.

Aside from that; no our history books don't really tell the complete story of what we did to the Native Americans. It's very whitewashed and toned down. If you want kids to…

And I love watching a bunch of comments by other white people telling minorities when they should be offended over a word.

You're delightful.

Oog. Yawn. Senators have better things to be doing, I could care jack shit about their view on the NFL team name. If it changes, it will be because the American public want it to. Right now we don't. It's not on the same level as other racial slurs, plenty of Native Americans support the name - it's fairly divided.

I…

It's not just about speech, it's more about privacy.

If Sterling was publicly being a racist scumbag, saying racist things in the workplace to peoples faces or on TV/Print and was fired, I'd agree with you. Freedom of speech doesn't equal freedom of consequence. Thank you for not linking that stupid web comic at me.

But…

I highly doubt there's a mechanism that allows them to force a vote to kick out an owner for any reason at all. That seems...unlikely. So if you're a lawyer, great - but unless you're willing to put in the work to actually delve into this case and come at me with some reliable bits of the constitution which support…

Well, I'll be happy to revisit this with you once we get a ruling, but I think it'll be a pretty long drawn out affair. There are plenty of people debating the legality of it, I know I've read plenty of articles so they must be out there.

The NBA and NFL are private institutions comprised of private-owner-participants…

Yes, that's how it has been working, that's how it worked with the NBA and this Donald Sterling controversy. It was a little bit messed up, this is when we learn a lesson from it. The worlds evolving, technology increasing, the blood thirsty mob will always be there; but sometime in the next decade or two, once too…

I agree with Sherman too, but for different reasons than both you and him.

Simply put - a illegal recording of a persons non-destructive/harmful racism isn't enough justification to force an owner to sell their team. It has nothing to do with the constitution, but both freedom of speech and freedom of privacy are…

I'm sure you're a fine person. I'm sorry for attacking you personally. You personified a lot of what I dislike about our society right now. I think we can be better, and one of the steps along the way is treating those "vapid celebritys" with a little bit more compassion. They're people too, and as annoying and…

Hilarious.

You're fine to express yourself. But if you want to be a snarky jerk, you're going to get people calling you out on it. People are tired of anonymous negativity on gawker-esque sites. This isn't high school anymore.

Oh shut up, you're just angry and spiteful. You're the type of person to always come up with a negative thing to say, regardless the circumstance. Give it a rest.

Yes, that needs to be taken in context of the previous two sentences. I'm worried that we acted a little too much in the mob mentality, and gave no thought whether or not he too should deserve his privacy. Any of us would expect it. His words didn't hurt anybody, he was asking his girlfriend not to broadcast her…

I heard about that, that he asked her to archive. I don't honestly believe that; as it's coming from her lawyers in the midst of a legal battle. If it's true it should be easy to verify with the 100's of hours of tape they have, somewhere he must acknowledge it. But as of right now, with what we know from the tapes…

Well I disagree that thoughts are harmful. There are a lot of older Americans that still harbor racist and bigoted thoughts, but don't act off them in any way. There are also a lot of younger Americans that are growing up in fairly homogeneous communities all over the country which unfortunately foster bigoted…