Am I taking crazy pills? What are you talking about, why are you bringing up a constitution amendment. The American value I said that he was defending is privacy. Americans value their privacy. I also did say that Americans value the free exchange of ideas as well. I stand by both those statements, if you'd like to…

...no I was clarifying the debate for you because you appeared to be confused.

Sterling was in his own home when he was recorded without his knowledge. Olin said that a citizen had right to privacy in his own home.

Yeah on some rereads I think perhaps maybe I didn't address your comment as directly as i could have. Too many topics that are long debates on their own. Got jumbled typing it last night.

Saying "A citizen has a right to his privacy in his own home" is not like substance abuse or a crime. It's not even shooting off his mouth, or ego. It's not a controversial statement. It's a conversation starter.

You're too much of a tool to have that conversation, so apparently you'd rather shout him down and get him…

Man, I've never heard this view point and it's pretty damn depressing. I am absolutely not okay with your vision for America.

Fine, you called out your teammates. It's still no secret that the NFL and professional sports in general has big problems with racial slurs and bigotry. I don't think we're ready as a society…

Because in firing him for perfectly benign valid comment incurred the wrath of myself and thousands of other people (many gamers) that feel like Olin was unjustly punished? It's still being talked about today, and it will be remembered for a pretty long time - if TR had slapped him on the wrist or something more…

It just sounds hypocritical and short sighted coming from someone whose views on gay rights would have made him a monster 50 years ago. Also coming from someone who played on an NFL team in an environment where racism and bigotry is more prevalent; did you hold all of your teammates to the same standard that you held…

Jesus Kluwe, you too?

bro, stop being angry and obtuse. Shaggy has a valid point, and you're just a tool that doesn't want to have any semblence of an intelligent conversation, so you literally take his words and twist them and attack him for it.

oh, I misread 'his jobs not important enough to employer' as 'job is too important to risk...' my bad.

Don't think he's complaining about losing his job, he wants the conversation to be centered around outrage culture and societies dangerous drift towards a bad place.

eh, yeah fine some people are thumping on the table about free speech. I don't think they're entirely off base though. It's not JUST a line in the constitution, it is very much an American value that many of us hold dear.

Maybe it was important enough an issue for him.

Nothing to do with freedom of speech, he said nothing about it nor did most of the supporters.

Couldn't agree with Josh more. Outrage culture is a very real and dangerous thing which is threatening to shut down civil discourse and progress on sensitive issues.

If you read the full letter in the link at bottom of article, this is where he addresses that;

"Mr. Sterling did not "take or support" any "position or action" in the events giving rise to the charge, a prerequisite to violating paragraph two of the Agreement and Undertaking. Mr. Sterling was engaged in a lovers' tiff…

When was he speaking about the NBA specifically?

Yes, his words were demeaning to black people everywhere when read in a vacuum, yes that's abhorrent and he's a bad person and everything. But his points are true; he didn't know it was being recorded, he was baited into continuing the conversation, the recordings were…

Thinking the bit about his conversation being a lovers quarrel in the privacy of his own home, can't be viewed as him representing or willfully / knowingly speaking in capacity of the NBA.


But it's been rehashed 100 times already, we don't have to delve into what comes down to a basic fundamental disagreement of how…

Still don't like the man - but he's correct. This deadspin article isn't giving his letter a fair shake, the points OP picked are pretty cherry picked. More desperate skewed journalism to prevent the rational conversation from happening.

Reaction by the NBA was emotional and panic'd, and it wasn't the right one.…