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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Look who's the racist. You are, assuming basketball is synonymous black culture. You should be ashemed, you ugly, racist, piece of shit (nobody calls me racist).
You're as ignorant of the meaning of the word racism as capitalism. I doubt you really have ever thought much about the meaning of the word racism or you wouldn't cheapen it this way. You wouldn't expose your own latent racism by suggesting blacks are only all about, are coextensive with, the NBA. I'm a racist because I'd rather put public money into schools than pay pro athletes tens of millions of dollars a year and enable owners to realize hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains as they can't turn a profit? I dare say there are millions of blacks who feel the same way I do, though this may come as a surprise to a racist such as yourself. My fair city voted 67 percent against public funding for Key Arena two years ago, and there were many thousands of blacks who voted that way.
I really have no problem with the players, who are often, particularly in football, among the victims. It's the owners and the shallow, gullibe public and their crappy values I condemn. You're exhibit A.
You seem like kind of a dim bulb, but let me see if you get this concept. If the whole edifice is funded with public money, if Kobe's opponents on the court and players bidding up salaries get public money, doesn't that make him a beneficiary of taxpayer largesse regardless of Staples' financing details?
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A few things about your diatribe....
1. I never said anything about blacks. In this entire discussion, you are the first to name blacks. Perhaps it is your latent racism coming to the surface? It would not surprise me, but many of your posts have had racist underpinnings to them. I guess for you it sucks to get called out on it.
2. This thread was a discussion of public v private financing. You are the one who has shifted the tone.
Once you started getting your butt kicked on the facts, you started to back peddle. First you punked out by saying, "Well, hey, maybe Kobe doesnt make 30M and maybe the Lakers are a bad example....but you still get my point..." You fail to admit that you have no real source for your entire thread (other than that random blurb). Very stubborn and not intellectually honest, quite frankly. A simple..."My bad, I screwed up my facts" would go a long way.
Next, 8Ball chimes in with yet another example of a privately financed stadium, not necessarily to contradict you, but to add to the conversation... you have no response for that, either. Interestingly, even as of right now, you have yet to cite a single example of the subsidized stadia to which you continually refer. We have named 2 to the contrary.
Finally, when your thread is revealed to be a house of cards, you stop the back peddling and change the topic entirely...."Oh, yeah....well what do fans of the NBA contribute to society?....."
Exactly who are these fans that you are referring to that are non-contributors? What race are they? Are they rich white season ticket holders? Or are they the Joe punchclocks....white, black, latino....that you find to be a drag on civic progress?
I think this is the first time you and I have gone the rounds on this board and quite frankly, it wasnt even that hard. Maybe because it was a sports category, which would be like competing against Hellen Keller in a game of darts. If you want to go the rounds, be more prepared. Breaking down by the second or third page of the thread and getting angry is rank amateur. You blow your wad too quickly. SeattleUte. I am sure your wife would agree.
Stick to making things up about religion. You are much more believable in that category.