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A friend of mine is a high school principal. He caught some heat a few years ago for something similar. He was speaking with a student regarding an online squabble where both parties used racial slurs.

Part of the required protocol was that the student was read what was said so that they could admit or deny what was said. The principal read the exchange, verbatim, which “offended” the student. News agencies were involved. I believe the policy on reading the material aloud has since been changed.

Same situation with a school principal in San Francisco. Called an assembly, spoke to teh study body about the use of offensive words, insults and slurs to include the magic N-word. Predictably, even though she was pointing out why the word was bad, parents and administrators called for her resignation.
 
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I don't understand, how a word that is so offensive that it cannot be uttered, nay even thought by most.

Yet one race uses it profusely, humorously, as a noun, verb, adjective, it abounds in lyrics and videos.

This is the definition of double standard and is glaring here. The writer is fine and goes on with life, the readers career ended.




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Orwell wrote about this crap … seems like most Americans didn’t read his works. Or Ayn Rand, or and and and … so hard to watch people abide this totalitarianism take over via cultural revolution.





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I’d have more respect for him if he held his ground, what’s the difference he resigns under a cloud, fight for your principles, if the fire you, you didn’t sell out your values.


$50K, $100K, $500K? most likely they required he stand in stocks at the city center and read aloud his transgressions and pledge his fealty...

Point being, yeah standing up for oneself over this sounds good, but reality is he was outed, either by the player(s), other coaches and then publicly shamed for it.

Shouldn't we choose not to disparage the man for being publicly exposed by the university and the players and stand against the Wokelahoma University for tossing him to the wolves.


If he’s not going to fight for himself, defend himself, defend his own actions, own it and fight it, why would “we” fight the wokeness. If he won’t stand up for himself say and say “No I didn’t use the word to inflict a racial epithet on a player, but read aloud what they were writing each other and distracting the team and other players,” why should anybody defend him?
 
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Anyone remember the high school football coach from Washington state, fight seven years until he got to the Supreme Court and won, for just taking a knee on the field?

Didn’t we just get the ruling less than 60 days ago?

Freedom of speech is in the same damn amendment if I recall correctly.





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I don't understand, how a word that is so offensive that it cannot be uttered, nay even thought by most.

Yet one race uses it profusely, humorously, as a noun, verb, adjective, it abounds in lyrics and videos.


This is the definition of double standard and is glaring here. The writer is fine and goes on with life, the readers career ended.


that is the total hypocrisy of it... I'm assuming this coach is white if he had been black there would have been nothing said about it.


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Well, my brother knows someone who’s a real college football insider, having worked in the programs at Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas A&M. He has gone out for beers with Gundy on several occasions. This guy says there is no way Gundy was run off just for reading the words on a player’s iPad. There has to be more to the story. Yellowjacket rightly points out that Venables and Gundy knew each from Venables’ previous tenure at Oklahoma, and that Gundy could have been easily let go when he came in as HC. Something’s fishy


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