DoMan said:
I am a huge fan of white players and I think there will be more of them in the future. That is why I joined this site. Whites are like underdogs and I like rooting for them. The site has been great so far but I have one complaint.
I don't like all the racial insults and slurs against black people/athletes. It is possibe to be a white athlete enthusiast without trashing other races. It is possible to like white athletes and not engage in derogatory name calling of others.
Welcome to the site. I agree with you, but you should remember that this is a message board with varying views. Some are moderates like you and me and some hardliners.
To give you another perspective-If you go on Youtube and look at the Carl Lewis vs. Mike Powell long jump video- some of the comments on that video surpass basically every post ever written here in trashing blacks. But Youtube would never be called a racist site for not censuring itself at all for user comments b/c the theme isn't about race and it is mainstream.
I don't believe in government censorship on the internet in most cases other than a site's self censorship (except in extreme cases- like a site recruiting a movement of violence toward another group/ person, hardcore porn or a site of illegal material like child porn or illegal hardcore drug sites). Since this is the "world" wide web- a site basically only has to adhere to it's nation's national or State/Provincial law.
I would agree though- if you are trying to stop negative stereotyping against whites in sports we shouldn't be going crazy with negative stereotypes of other ethnic groups. Maybe sometimes people just lose their cool with the current state of affairs.
I'm Irish and love Sam McGuffie, but part of cheering for athletes of your race is embracing your race's diversity from other groups. So from time to time- it is warranted that negative opinions of other races will come up.
I stick just to sports myself and the negative and positive attributes of different races in sports (I basically believe the greater differences between groups are cultural and smaller ones genetic. I don't believe any group is bad by nature- just that we have cultural and genetic strengths and weaknesses. The great majority of people believe this- so I guess that makes most of us closet "racists").
It's a sociological fact that the first thing you notice about a person is their outward appearance/ characteristics. Some of the biggest racists IMO are whites who act all self righteous, pro-black and anti-white. I believe they have white guilt due to the fact that they really don't feel comfortable with blacks and also can't deal with the very dark day's of American race relations (Pre Civil War era). Some of these Marxist "journalists" who trash whites and appear to be enamored with blacks are in fact closet racists (ex. Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge").
Some "journalists" may be Jews that hate anything white, Christian or Patriarchal and are truly racist against us. Maybe it's because some Jewish "journalists" still haven't forgiven the Hitler era. Maybe they are angry that Christians say that Jesus is the only way to Heaven.
So anyway Doman- to start off on a lighter subject- when do you think Hansbrough, Budinger and Mullens should be drafted if fair?
Edited by: ToughJ.Riggins
