Comments on: Barch on Subban comment: “It was nowhere along the lines of a racial slur”

By: sizzle299

sizzle299 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:33:39 +0000

You make a valid point about the hypocracy of punishing racist comments and not anti-gay ones. That should be the subject of valid discussion- but lets be serious it won’t.

But you lose me, and everyone, by saying that if they don’t punish every type of offensive remark that the league is engaging in “half-measured bullshit”. That’s a very foolish thing to say, and implies that the league should allow blatently racist comments. You should understand the difference between making a racist comment [considering the past history of slavery and recent, if not current, practices of discrimination in many public and private institutions] and a comment insulting ethniticy or perceived homosexuality.

By: danphipps01

danphipps01 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:36:27 +0000

Aye, that’s the truth of it. If anything, this ridiculous debacle should generate debate over the NHL’s utter hypocrisy, not its “stand-up attitude against racism” or whatever the fuck Gary Bettman and co. are hoping the bleeding-heart journalists will say about them in the headlines tomorrow. A guy can’t use the word “banana” whilst addressing a black man for fear he’ll get jumped by the paranoid white guys running the sport, but they all call each other faggots roughly a million times a game and nobody gives a shit. How many gay guys do you figure there are in the NHL? Probably very few, but there are less than twenty black guys playing and that’s enough to get them so worked up that using the word “banana” can get you suspended if you say it to the wrong guy. Here’s my figuring – there are probably at least as many gay guys in hockey as black guys, with the difference being that they’re not conveniently colour-coded. As long as the NHL does jack shit to deal with anti-homosexual slurs, its “stand-up” stance on imaginary racism is not only comical, but hypocritical to the point of irrelevance. Same goes for other ethnic, sexual, religious or national slurs – wonder how many Eastern Europeans badmouth each other, given the sheer tension amongst nations in the region? Wonder if an American and a Russian have ever laid into each other for the countries of their births? I don’t. It’s happened, guaranteed, and I doubt it just stopped at the end of the Cold War.

Either you tolerate it all, or you tolerate nothing. There are no points for this half-measure bullshit.

By: donttouchthedirtypenny

donttouchthedirtypenny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:35:04 +0000

Don’t forget c**k, a**hole, MF, qu**r.

By: brockohol

brockohol — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:50:30 +0000

r u kidding me? if its not racist, then what is it? you can here guys calling each other fa**ot, pu**ssy, piece of Fing S, etc…but you talk about fruit and your suspended? where is the players rep on this one?