Steve Duemig: a man out of time

[Banacek]

So Duemig spends all of Tuesday's show ranting about how even though Donald Sterling is a horrible racist, it's "wrong" to take his "property" (the Clippers) from him.

Steve really is just completely out of touch with our modern society. From his defense of Joe Paterno's willfully looking the other way when allegations of child abuse were presented to him, to his openly homophobic criticism of gay athletes, to his defense of Keyshawn Johnson during his feud with Gruden, if there's a politically incorrect opinion to have, Steve will gleefully embrace it.

We live in a politically correct society, and people like the Big Dog really have no place in it anymore.

Oh, and Steve, not that you'll read this, but just as an FYI, the National Basketball Association is considered to be a "private industry," and the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that Freedom of Speech does NOT apply to internal matters within private industry. If the other NBA owners want to strip Sterling of his ownership due to his racist beliefs, that's an internal matter and the other owners are perfectly within their rights to do so.

 

[SarasotaJim]

Those of you who agree with the above statement, let's pretend you work for a major broadcasting company. How would you like to be fined $2.5m and have your assets taken because someone illegally recorded statements you made in your own house, then illegally released those recordings? Has this nation come to the place where we have to be afraid to say what we think in our own houses? The question has nothing to do with whether he made bigoted statements. He did. But we are all allowed to say what we think. I may not like what you say, but I will fight for your right to say it. Especially in your own house. Sterling is not the criminal here. The person who made and released the recording is. The kind of thinking espoused in the statement above makes me fear greatly for the future of this nation and its people.

 

[coolaid213]

I was listening to a liberal talk show host earlier this week, and I'll paraphrase what he said...

"...the first amendment is great and all, and I'm all for it, but I think it has gone too far. We can't have these racist Republicans going around spewing their hate, something needs to be done to stop this. Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment blah blah blah"

This is scary stuff. I will be the first to proclaim that Donald Sterling is a reprehensible human being, but I don't see any legal grounds for "forcing" him to sell his team. This is dangerous territory. I say racist stuff all the time, not because I am a racist, but because I am funny, and I would like to preserve freedom of speech. So if I make a joke about how poorly Asians drive, can I expect the feds to start docking my pay or something? WTF This isn't the America I grew up in... and I'm 30...

I guess for once I agree with Duemig... wow.

 

[pascoradio]

We call it “Political Correctness.” The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.