Golf Channel anchor suspended for 'racially sensitive' comments about Tiger Woods

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  El Sitherino said:

Well, generally people try to hide murders. But I guess that's just stupid.

Nope, just overrated.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

  Ctrl_Alt_Del said:

Nope, just overrated.

Do elaborate.

[Corinthian]

She probably apologized because she was threatened with losing her job. Patton apologized to his troops after slapping a shell-shocked soldier around, although I really doubt he was genuinely sorry about it.

 

I'd say Who Cares, but I know who cares. I wonder what the reaction would have been if she had said something like "I bet the other golfers are wanting to take him out back and shoot him right now." Or some other, similar suggestion that golfers would want to kill him. Probably different. If she had said hang him, they probably would have shrugged. It's all this tyranny, the restrictions on words that don't even matter. People need to grow thicker skins.

[Tommycat]

Lynch mobs existed in areas not exclusive to hanging blacks. They existed during the old west. Lynch mobs would form to hang a criminal before the trial. Street justice in a sense. I'm offended by the labeling of lynching as a wholely black thing. As if only a black person can be lynched. Besides Tiger also happens to have another ethnicity in him. He wasn't offended, it's up to him to decide if it was offensive as he was the target.

[Jae Onasi]

  Corinthian said:

She probably apologized because she was threatened with losing her job.

 

I heard an interview on a sports radio show--this woman actually is good friends with Tiger and they've known each other a long time. She never meant any harm by it, though it was a phenomenally poor choice of verbiage, and Tiger knew what she meant and thus wasn't offended.

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  Jae Onasi said:

I heard an interview on a sports radio show--this woman actually is good friends with Tiger and they've known each other a long time. She never meant any harm by it, though it was a phenomenally poor choice of verbiage, and Tiger knew what she meant and thus wasn't offended.

If she was a friend then the only problem was that her comment was out of place. She could have said it on a friendly, particular talk, on a pub table, not on a public space.

[El Sitherino]

Why?

[Corinthian]

That's my point, Jae. She apologized for no reason, the only people who were offended were the ones who had no right to be offended. The only logical reason she apologized is, logically, because she was ordered to do so.

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  El Sitherino said:

Why?

Because not every watcher is her friend, obviously. And many tend to be rather sensitives about something or another. If you deal with someone for enough time, you'll eventually know what you can/can't say on his/her presence.

[Weiser_Cain]

I had to read that twice, yes it's offensive, yes to more that just tiger woods.

[El Sitherino]

  Ctrl_Alt_Del said:

Because not every watcher is her friend, obviously. And many tend to be rather sensitives about something or another. If you deal with someone for enough time, you'll eventually know what you can/can't say on his/her presence.

But she's not talking about them, they have no relation to her comment.

 

If anyone is offended by it, then they might as well be offended by the people on mTV. "Yo, I'd just like to give a shout out to my homegirl Laquisha. WHAT UP BITCH?!"

 

There's no reason to get offended over a general statement made in regards to a friend, as a joke, that the friend had no issue with. If anything, it'd probably be the asian side of him that's offended. The Chinese have been persecuted far longer than the blacks, and I'm willing to bet lynched more as well.

 

However, none of that is the issue, since the only offensive thing about the statement is the idea of people killing, namely over a golf title.

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  El Sitherino said:

There's no reason to get offended over a general statement made in regards to a friend, as a joke, that the friend had no issue with.

I don't disagree, but some people would.

 

Actually, I defend the idea that almost everything should be subject for jokes (No kidding).

[El Sitherino]

If something is funny, it's funny, you shouldn't be able to fault someone for that.

 

And who knows, he probably cracked up when he first heard it. I highly doubt he chuckled then went "Hey, wait a minute. I'm half-black, that means a part of mean is an angry militant protestor". No, he probably laughed his ass off and said something to the effect of, "Yeah, but ****'s good..."

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  Corinthian said:

The only logical reason she apologized is, logically, because she was ordered to do so.

Or maybe because she realized that she said her comment without thinking it through and apologized for making an insensitive faux pas? I'm pretty sure no one had to force her to make the apology.

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  Rogue Nine said:

I'm pretty sure no one had to force her to make the apology.

Independently of her intentions, she sure though that resigning and apologizing would make things look better.

[Rogue Nine]

Eh? There have been no indications of her resigning anywhere. The Golf Channel suspended her, yes, but that was the extent of the disciplinary action. (Curiously, they had initially stated there would be no such punishment, but obviously went back, presumably from pressure from people like Al Sharpton).

 

And yeah, apologizing did make things better, regardless of whether she meant it or not. Tiger accepts her apology, so that's good enough for me.