Andrew Harrison When Asked About Kaminsky
I don't see race. People tell me Frank Kaminsky is white, and I believe them because he goes to Wisconsin.
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Just totally missing the point. Like, no shit it'd be different if a white person said "fuck that nigga" about a black person. I don't understand why this is so hard for white people to grasp.
B/c white people can't say it and if they can't, no one can. Hence the hissy fit.
nigga, it aint no hissy fit
Confirmed.
It's a double standard. The burden of being PC shouldn't just fall on the whites.
To be fair, there are many white people who grasp this.
Hopefully those folks answer the question next time...but I agree wholeheartedly with you (and the poster you're responding to).
But in the ultra sensitive world we live in, a black dude should get suspended for using a racial slur during an interview.
Sorry, its just the way it works.
a racial slur when you are talking about your own race. I have Polish friends who call each other Polaks & laugh about it, but I can't call them that. Poor metaphor since we are of the same race, but similar.
But that doesnt change the fact that it is a word that should not be said in a public forum in that manner.
Like, I have seen women greet each other by calling each other bitches. It is used by these particular women as a term to describe each other in a friendly, somewhat sarcastic manner (truthfully, i dont understand it, but im not the one saying it). Just because they call each other that in private doesnt make it appropriate to use the word to describe someone else in public.
does that make sense?
And lets not forget that Kaminsky is probably not friends with Harrison, so it isnt even as if Harrison has that excuse. He is just straight up using a racial slur to describe someone he doesnt like. I thought we were opposed to that as a society.
Why must there be so many stupid little exceptions to that rule? If black people simply stopped using the word altogether, it would probably discourage its use among white people
He's black and believe it or not, many black people use the word as a stand in for "guy" or "dude."
Not much will happen. If anything he'll get reprimanded for saying Fuck xxxx during a press conference.
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yeah to be honest, if you can't figure out the difference between a white person and a black person using that word after 400 years of context, you're an idiot.
That said, hahahahaha Harrison Bros schadenfreude is the best schadenfreude
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can that young man say that in a job interview????
it's an unsportsmanlike utterance that should not have happened. No matter how much bonus money he just lost.
+1
In a public forum like that, I agree that it is unacceptable.
Real slippery slope to argue one group can use the word and another group can't. Can a half black, half white use the word? How about 1/4 black, 3/4 white? You're an idiot if you can't figure out it's either an okay word for everybody to use or it's not okay for anybody to use.
Ask yourself this. Why is he saying it under his breath?
Well, the only word in the whole utterance that was really OK for professional conversation was "that". As far as I know.
is often used in place of using common sense
I don't know, neither Harrison impresses me that much. Randle was the guy last year and Towns was the guy this year. The Harrisons are surrounded by NBA talent. They are both 6' 6" and can drive the lane against smaller guards like Gasser. That's not going to be the case in the NBA.
Then again, Kaminsky is not a random message board poster and is probably too smart to say that. But I would laugh in all caps.
Based on all the media hilarity Wisconsin has been partaking in during this tournament, I would only be a little bit surprised to see the team make a spoof of it with Kaminsky
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I think it's hilarious. In a way, he's giving Kaminsky mad respect. Might be different if Harrison called him honky.
But somehow I feel like people would have a problem with that if a white person used it for a white person too. Like everyone would dig into his history to see if he had a non-white ancestor somewhere, or something.
This is where I wish we could all just engage our brains and judge conversation on intent, and not litteral terms. You grow up in certian areas, you're gonna say "ni**a". It's just going to be engrained. If you meant nothing other than, "dude", why get upset?
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Pretty sure this will be the first and only time Kaminsky is called that by anybody.
Unless he hits it big in the NBA haha.
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