Imagine the out cry if it was the other way around.

What would this diversity training look like?

Youre trolling. Ill allow it, but its noted.

Black people can't be racist to bitch ass white boys!

Imagine not understanding the difference between punching up and punching down.

Ha ha Punching up/Punching down?

They both equals on the court and millionaires so not sure how Montrezl is punching up?

I do love the ghetto names in the NBA...its like the people in the ghetto can't spell or on crack and just straight make it up.

Wonder why the kids can't get jobs....No boss is evening interviewing people with some of these names thank god they can play ball

"Wonder why the kids can't get jobs....No boss is evening interviewing people with some of these names“

#accidentallyleftwing

" What is perhaps even more disturbing is that the NBA has turned a blind eye on this one and has done absolutely nothing about it. No comment from those players wearing "equality" on the back of their jerseys? "

Are you for real? You think the systemic racism And inequality problems that the athletes are highlighting begin and end with being called the n-word?

Whats he got written on the back of his jersey?

"Are you for real? You think the systemic racism And inequality problems that the athletes are highlighting begin and end with being called the n-word"

Are you for real? Who suggested this being anything other than a double standard at an entirely inappropriate time?

I think I saw "EQUALITY" on some jerseys?
Someone please confirm

"Are you for real? Who suggested this being anything other than a double standard at an entirely inappropriate time?"

Read the comment I responded to. The equality the NBA players are speaking up about is not just being called the n-word.

Which is more of an outrage to you? Montrezl calling Luka a white boy, or Jacob Blake being shot in the back by police after breaking up a fight?

Above has nothing to do w topic.
Its a clear double standard.
If you can't see this, you are the racist.

hahahaha that isnt how racism works, idiot.

Don't give me the whole oppressed people cant be racist BS.

If you judge or negatively comment on someone because of their skin colour, you are racist.
This goes any way you want it to.

Ah here we go...more outrage over someone calling someone else white boy than there is about another black man being shot in the back by police.

What facts are being missed?

The facts of the topic.
Want to discuss the shooting, start a seperate thread.
Montrzl and the shooting can and should be discussed indepedently, for people with a brain

"Montrzl and the shooting can and should be discussed indepedently, for people with a brain"

Apparently they can't be, because the immediate reaction from many people here is that the players are fighting for equality and justice, due to a litany of incidents in recent years and of course throughout history, but due to Montrezl using a slur that does not have the same impact as anything black people have faced, they are prepared to dismiss any demand for equality.

I am sure Aussie Hoopla and ME will soon have their two cents to add about how white people are the real victims of oppression.

"Ah here we go...more outrage over someone calling someone else white boy than there is about another black man being shot in the back by police.

What facts are being missed?"

Because one instance was about overt racism and the other one was about a person ignoring orders from several police who had their guns drawn, walking around his car and reaching in for who knows what?

So both issues about overt racism then.

Once again, equating a slur with the entire fight for equality and justice is really showing you don't understand the issues black people have faced and continue to face.

My problem is the hypocrisy. If this were 2008, and we were before all of the constant lecturing from the left about racist, I'd take no particular interest in a black player calling a white player a "bitch ass white boy".

But we're not. We live in a time when everyone is trying to promote their own virtue, and when racism is found in the smallest possible things and denounced.

So how exactly, in the current climate, is it okay for a player to racially vilify another player?

"Imagine not understanding the difference between punching up and punching down."

They're both equals on the basketball court. Doncic isn't even American. There is no history of slavery or oppression of blacks in his blood line to even talk about. They both are also multimillionaires.

The only way this could have been "punching up" is if you believe that blacks are inferior to whites and that the insult was akin to a child insulting an adult.

"Which is more of an outrage to you? Montrezl calling Luka a white boy, or Jacob Blake being shot in the back by police after breaking up a fight?"

It may surprise you to learn that these two things have absolutely NO correlation to eachother, and that both things are entirely wrong and inappropriate.

It's like saying "yeah, I murdered someone. But have you heard of serial killers? yeah so bigger problems out there, ya know. Ignore me!"

"Don't give me the whole oppressed people cant be racist BS."

Yeah exactly. One, I find it hard to see someone who makes millions of dollars for putting a ball in a ring as "oppressed".

Two, we can all see that the rord "racism" has been hyjacked by university nut jobs to mean things about "structures of oppression" that rarely make sense when examined, rather than its original meaning - the hatred or mistreatment of someone due to their race.

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Anyway I don't need to see a banning. I don't need to see this Montrezl character crucified in the media for it. But a media release from the NBA saying something along the lines of "we do not tolerate racial harassment of any kind in our league" that highlights why the league doesn't support the comment, nor any comment to anyone about race, would suffice and make enough of a unifying statement to all.

But of course, we wont see that.

What doesn't make sense about the structures of oppression?

When "the hatred or mistreatment of someone due to their race" is built to many facets of life for minorities all throughout American history, then no one is hijacking the word. They are bringing all the issues to the forefront but unfortunately, ignorant people choose to remain ignorant.

Matty A is back!

Why is what MH said inappropriate "at this time"?

"But in a time of heightened racial tensions while everyone on his team is wearing jerseys about "equality" and "Black Lives Matter" it is highly hypocritical,"

Not sure how many times it needs to be said but what minorities are currently fighting for goes a long way beyond slurs.

"unless of course you accept Black Lives Matter is little more than an anti-white movement?"

Ah, there's the racist and ignorant ME we'd been waiting for.

I think its more they are trying to use this incident to continue to dismiss the fight for justice and equality because it makes them feel better to pretend racism doesn't exist.

ME thinks that once slavery ended, so did racism.

"As for getting offended for other people, isn't that what the left spends its life doing?"

Oooh, edgy.

I'd say he watches whatever channels Prue McSween and Rita Panahi are on.

"ME thinks that once slavery ended, so did racism."

Who told you slavery had ended?!

BLM movement is invalidated because Montrezl Harrell said bad thing! Mmm yes, I am very smart

Racism is only against blacks if they say bad word to whitey it's okay just gaslight the clear hypocrisy oh look how smart and woke i am.

Perhaps running away from cops and reaching into a car when guns are drawn and the police are asking you to stop isn't a good idea.

Lets be honest guns are everywhere in the USA i can see clearly why the officers shoot that dude.

BLM but sure people need to be a touch smarter than that!

LV it is tough watching it as outside Luka the league to just shoving messages down everyone's throat so wish they’d just play and we could enjoy the game and player interviews without all the BS.

Was refreshing to see the Boban interview the other night and remember the game is fun not a political statement being made by millionaires/billionaires

"BLM is invalidated because they've spent the last three months destroying their cities over the death of a criminal"

Incredibly ignorant.

"there is a history of racism in America that goes back centuries"

"yeah but they threw a brick through a windows in protest so I don't care"

Thats ME in a nutshell.

" the game is fun not a political statement being made by millionaires/billionaires"

Poor baby. I'm so sorry that you have to listen to powerful people use their voices for those who cant.

Just because they're now millionaires, it doesn't mean they have never experienced racism.