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TheOak 02-27-2014 06:46 AM

With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
This great country of ours never got around to passing anti-lynching legislation, but the state of South Carolina did. You probably know the name of one South Carolinian arrested for that horrible offense: NBA All-Star and future hall of famer, Kevin Garnett. Yes, South Carolina's lynching statute was ostensibly put on the book in response to black people being killed by mobs, and yes, Garnett is black. But South Carolina worded and applied its statute in such a way that even schoolyard brawls qualified as lynchings. Garnett, who reportedly stood on his campus and watched his friends beat up a white boy, was also scooped up by authorities and booked with second-degree lynching, a crime that called for up to 20 years in prison.

Garnett was able to participate in a first-time offender program and get his record cleared. Then he got the hell out of South Carolina. Who could blame him? The Associated Press reported in 2003 that 69 percent of the people targeted for South Carolina's lynching prosecutions were young black men and that 67 percent of those convicted of lynching were black.

The NFL has floated the idea of penalizing teams 15 yards when one of its players uses the word "n----r," and I can't help but think that the rule will become what South Carolina's lynching statute became: a seemingly helpful response to black people's abuse that morphs into a new way to hold them back. Hold them back literally in this case, to the tune of 15 yards. The league's competition committee may enact the rule at the NFL's owners' meeting next month.

It's not hard to imagine one black man using that word with another black man on the grid-iron and a white man blowing his whistle. White people generally refuse to sanction the idea that black people can use language among black people that white people cannot. Thus, this proposal seems less like a response to the harassment former Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin says he got from teammate Richie Incognito last season and more like the very embodiment of white supremacy and power: If we can't say it, y'all can't either.

In the most generous view, the NFL's proposal comes across as a cowardly attempt to substitute wisdom with a rule. Rather than acknowledge that language is an ever-shifting organism that depends on context, intent and perception, rather than wait for allegations of harassment or abuse to be made before deciding what should be done, the NFL would rather deal in absolutes. The league would rather decide that its professional athletes - about as foul-mouthed a demographic as you're likely to find anywhere - can say just about anything and everything but that.

But if I were a black player in the NFL, I wouldn't fight this. No, sir. I'd just use the racially offensive language that the NFL tolerates and profits from: Hey, my redskin, what's up?

With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language: Jarvis DeBerry | NOLA.com

TheOak 02-27-2014 06:48 AM

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I cant stop laughing at this article.

Crusader 02-27-2014 07:48 AM

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Just wait, the next rule will be for "illegal eyeballing".

rezburna 02-27-2014 09:08 AM

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Bad idea my nigga. Bad idea indeed.

Danno 02-27-2014 01:09 PM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Currently, using the N-word is racist.

Now how much you wanna bet that someone will claim that not allowing the use of the N-word is racist.

TheOak 02-28-2014 05:05 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 579840)
Currently, using the N-word is racist.

Now how much you wanna bet that someone will claim that not allowing the use of the N-word is racist.


I like it. Restricting expression.

B005TED 03-29-2014 10:07 AM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 579840)
Currently, using the N-word is racist.

Now how much you wanna bet that someone will claim that not allowing the use of the N-word is racist.

How much you want to bet that person will be black too.

http://replygif.net/i/639.gif

SmashMouth 03-29-2014 10:20 AM

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Is Neaux considered an N word?

B005TED 03-29-2014 11:07 AM

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Neuxpe. :bng:

Jamessr 03-29-2014 12:52 PM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Well the word is offsenive, brings up bad memories...
I see no problem banning it.

B005TED 03-29-2014 01:45 PM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamessr (Post 585970)
Well the word is offsenive, brings up bad memories...
I see no problem banning it.

Thing is if it starts at one word, where does it end? Players should be alowed to say what they want to on the field. They are all "professional" players and should be at the point where trash talk doesn't get to them.

Utah_Saint 03-29-2014 02:16 PM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Can't say it in any other workplace in America.

Why would it be any different in the NFL?

NOS2SB 03-29-2014 02:46 PM

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nigga please!

B005TED 03-29-2014 04:12 PM

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http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/picture/X...iggaPlease.png

Danno 03-29-2014 08:22 PM

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Can we stop with the slurs please?

TheOak 03-31-2014 10:43 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 586021)
Can we stop with the slurs please?

Sure.


cracker


Honestly, the offensiveness of a word loses credibility with me when the ethnicity of the person that uses it weighs so heavily on whether someone is offended or not.

Danno 03-31-2014 10:51 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOak (Post 586167)
Sure.


cracker


Honestly, the offensiveness of a word loses credibility with me when the ethnicity of the person that uses it weighs so heavily on whether someone is offended or not.

So its not the word they hate, its whites they hate?

TheOak 03-31-2014 10:55 AM

With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
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Originally Posted by Danno (Post 586170)
So its not the word they hate, its whites they hate?


I thought about that for a few minutes and it seems Whites that use that word would be the obvious choice. Latinos, Blacks, and Asians using the word doesn't seem to cause as much of an issue.

A white comedian is more apt to get crickets than a Latino comedian when the audience is black.

A black man calling out a white man for using it is justified, a black man calling out a black man for using it is Uncle Tom.

B005TED 03-31-2014 12:26 PM

Re: With N-word ban, NFL proposes to police language
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOak (Post 586167)
Sure.


cracker

I hope you're not black, only us "whites" can use that word.


:o

SaintsBro 03-31-2014 03:00 PM

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Regardless of how you feel about this super-charged evocative word, this is just yet another example of Roger Goodell leading from behind, stumbling and bumbling, closing the gate after the horse has already long ago left the barn (the Ritchie Incognito and Riley Cooper incidents).

They should change the name of the league from NFL to CYA.


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