League fires Rockets/NBA photographer, removes him from the Bubble

Yeah, but, read the room, dude.

 

Nah, I’m not an anything type of guy. Definitely not part of the “woke” crowd lol, bunch of kids playing grown up.

It isn’t their job to silence anyone, that culture is a cancer and it will eat itself up eventually. If you want to be a part of that, you do you bruh

 

Fascism at it's finest. Imagine if the NBA fired someone everytime they called a conservative a "hoe" or worse, wouldn't be much of a league left. Btw its called a "meme", imagine taking every meme at face value and treating it literally.

 

Words mean things, he should have been smarter than that.

You get what you deserve.

And it is not facism - this is capitalism 100% - you fire those that hurt your business.

DD

 

Just be consistent with it. Don’t pick and choose who gets a pass

 

The companies get to pick and choose who represents them. Nothing more than that.....there is no one sided-ness to stupidity.

DD

 

Lebron James calling the POTUS a bum and being celebrated for it. Imagine NBA's response to someone calling Obama a bum?

 

That’s fine too, let them be found out to be the hypocrites they are.
Can’t say one person meant their hate this way but this person meant it this way.

Leagues getting political is never going to end well. Best to be Switzerland, no party over the other.

 

You are describing discrimination, and no companies are not allowed to discriminate. Well, apparently only certain kinds of discrimination is allowed.

 

It is not discrimination, he was on a contract, there is a certain level of professionalism required to maintain that contract, he posted something stupid which showed some racist opinions.

The organization he worked for terminated his agreement - that is their prerogative, and he knew better judging by his apology. People need to learn from their mistakes and their are consequences for stupidity.....sorry doesn't cut it.....do like Invanka said...."Find something new".....

Maybe he learned a lesson, maybe not.....but he got what he deserved.

DD

 

TIL calling someone a "hoe" is racist. In a meme no less.

Would it still be racist if Kamala was white, or is "hoe" a racially specific term. I would like to learn more.

 

What was racist about it?
Misogynistic? Yeah but not racists be any means

 

When weren’t they consistent?

 

Exactly...common sense. They fired a man for having a horse n gun emoji....people think they wouldn't fire a guy after calling a elected official a name like that smh.

 

I’m saying be consistent.
But players have some pretty damning tweets, the league itself was on the wrong side of the China deal.
Kinda get the feel that if someone in the league said Melania* was slutty for her playboy stuff it would get laughed away ‍♂️

 

your stupidity is getting old...stop embarrassing yourself

the words bum and hoe don’t carry the same weight

 

You're trying to sweep this under the rug by just saying "it's a meme, so what?".

It was misogynistic and it was inappropriate. And it was shared in public -- it is not like he shared a joke with his bros in his own home. He did so willingly and publicly.

Is it a fire-able offense? That can be debated, though I cannot fault an organization for taking action for something their employee shares publicly. This is not the first time someone has been fired for posting idiotic things on Facebook, nor will it be the last.

There is nothing to defend. The Rockets and the NBA have a right to protect their brand -- they deem it as what's best for business. Baptist is an absolute moron for posting it willingly.

Dumb actions have consequences.

 

The nba can do whatever it wants, as any fascist organization would.

Just know that if this guy posted a (not very clever)meme calling Ivanka a Tramp there would be no firing, no outrage, and none of you social justice warriors would be here with your pitchforks. As it should be by the way, as a joke should be treated.

Instead a man is going to lose his job/career that he's been part of for >20 years over a fking meme because he was on the wrong side of the aisle.

 

Oh come on. You use an absolutely moronic strawman with zero logic. Why are YOU bringing politics into this discussion? He stupidly shared a post that referred to a woman as shorthand for a w****. If he called Ivanka Trump a tramp then I would expect the same outcome.

...none of you social justice warriors would be here with your pitchforks

Your immaturity is astounding.

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It'S jUsT a JoKe BrO!!!1 Your mentality is what's wrong with America.