Someone didn't pay attention in school.

The first amendment protects you from being thrown in jail from what you say. It does not protect you from ALL consequences that might come from what you say. In this case, the consequence was him getting fired.

Very true.

You're focusing on two very irrelevant things:

And athletes that are convicted of crimes are punished as well. I haven't heard anyone call for Sterling to be arrested or thrown in prison, but a lifetime ban from the NBA was definitely warranted.

The NBA is a private organization, not the government. First amendment rights don't keep you from getting fired.

Real criminals? Like the ones who lose the largest housing discrimination lawsuit in US history?

They looked fantastic in the 1990 movie. I know it's a reboot, but why not just use that style?

So what do they do, chuck hogtied criminals in the bed of the truck?

"Asian women don't date Asian men because they're all misogynists" seems pretty intentional.

Doesn't even really sound that bad.

You are a crazy person. The sauce is the best part. I'll order pizzas with extra sauce.

A lot of states have laws on the books that increase the penalty of a crime if its within x distance of a school/park/place with kids. If you're in a city, that's almost everywhere.

This is why children are annoying, because children are hypersensitive sea creatures who ADORE plain cheese pizza. And that means, at a birthday party, I have to go peeking into every pizza box to see if there's one sympathy pepperoni anywhere to be found. Half the time, there's a fucking olive pizza in there,…

But it takes him out of the league. Even if he was busted for gambling and trying to make his team lose games, he'd still be able to sell the team and get value for it. The NBA can't just confiscate his property.

9 digits.

Anecdotal on that one. But 30% of Americans can't answer the question, "What was the Holocaust?"http://www.alternet.org/story/90161/ig…

Just because you hang out with people who are dumb to learn basic history, doesn't mean everyone else is incapable.

Name one name.

A social experiment I decided to try when I was in college: ask people if they could name the Axis powers in World War II. The most common response? "Whats an Axis power?" Instead, I switched to "bad guys." Most common response? Russia. I asked 10-20 people, only one person got both Germany and Japan without naming an…