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No one said anything about political discourse, just about differing opinions on various issues. Surely, racism is one of them. And just so you know, the preva
by i_am_nomad 7y ago
No one said anything about political discourse, just about differing opinions on various issues. Surely, racism is one of them.
And just so you know, the prevailing Chinese opinion on that is quite a bit different that what we believe in the West.
- danharaj 7y agoDo you think that the extent of racism is what opinions you hold?
- i_am_nomad 7y agoNo, but since you asked, can you tell me what racist things Donald Sterling did, besides make some comments in private?
- gamblor956 7y agoDonald Sterling settled multiple racial discrimination lawsuits related to his openly racist criteria for putative tenants in his apartment buildings... See e.g. https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4619819 https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=4619819
- i_am_nomad 7y agoThen we have to wonder why the NBA let him own a team in the first place.
- gamblor956 7y agoGoogle is your friend. Donald Sterling bought the Clippers in 1981. At the time, he was a former trial lawyer that had made millions purchasing and selling high-end ultra-luxury apartment/condo buildings in West LA. (He used to run multiple ads in every issue of the LA Times.) His forays into the low-income housing developments to which the racial discrimination lawsuits relate did not begin until some years after he had purchased the Clippers. His racism was not well known because the Internet didn't exist back then and he spent millions annually on self-promotion, including sizable annual donations to the NAACP.