NBA moves All-Star Game from Charlotte
It's being reported basically everywhere, but the NBA is following through on its threat to move the All-Star game out of North Carolina over recent bigoted laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.
Without any movement by state legislators in North Carolina to change newly enacted laws targeted at the LGBT community, the NBA is pulling the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, league sources told The Vertical.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver had threatened to move All-Star Weekend out of Charlotte unless a discriminatory North Carolina law aimed at the state’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community was changed – and time to do so has run out because of the logistics and planning the NBA needs to run its marquee midseason event, league sources said.
The league is reportedly looking towards New Orleans as a replacement host.
Edit, forgot the link. From Yahoo! Sports
After watching a man with shaved legs, ridulously short shorts, striped knee sox, pumps he could not walk in, a dozen necklaces, big loopy earrings, long hair dyed pink and five o'clock shadow walk into the ladies room at a Panera Bread in Port Charlotte, FL yesterday I feel very safe in saying it is not bigoted to say that guy doesn't belong in the ladies room with my wife, daughters or anyone else for that matter. It is a free country and you can dress up however you wish, but where do you draw the line? Erasing all lines for <1% of the population makes little sense.
Bathrooms have always been based on gender and gender norms, not biological sex. Three were mens and womens bathrooms way before we even discovered chromosomes.
Why do you care what this person calls themselves? If one of your friends says they're Irish on St. Patrick's day, do you chime in every time they say that and note that they actually have German ancestry or whatever?
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Stop conflating gay and trans people with molesters/pedophiles. That's been the discriminatory playbook for 50+ years and it's demonstrably untrue.
If you don't want your family hanging out with people who don't dress according to societal norms, that's fine. But let's not pretend that this is a bathroom issue or anything sexual. I don't know what you're worried might happen, but I'm pretty confident that the person you describe isn't going to go waving their pecker around the bathroom or anything like that.
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I haven't seen the app version of this thread, nor do I particularly wish to do so, but so far so good here. Please keep it that way.
So everyone knows, if by chance there is an unfortunate remark on the app, then let me or JGB know usernames - we can't delete anything contentwise that appears over there, but Bolivia works on their site accounts all the same.
I've always assumed the app has the same content, including board posts... not true?
It has the same content, but I have editing capabilities on the site ("Edit", "Delete", etc...buttons and the like) that don't exist over there. As you know, posts on the app don't always show up here, and banned users on the site can still post on the app and sometimes the replies to those people show up here and kill thread continuity. That is to say, when people get caved, they only get caved in this environment, not on the mobile one.
Semi-amusing note - I have fielded e-mails and tweets from people who didn't realize they were caved for months for that reason.
If it was all about the 'issues' they wouldn't be playing in China.
Charlotte does not. This isn't about laws. It's about money and perception...and you can't fault someone for doing what they feel is best for THEIR business.
Case closed.
about how you stand on the money issue. Could you expand on that for the board please?
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This comment is the bullshit going on in America right now. If the guy is terrified of letting a man in the bathroom to piss with his daughter, THATS HIS FUCKING RIGHT! Your friend Cady doesn't factor into this, nor should someone walk on eggshells
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Is your proposed solution to measure the biochemistry of every single individual before they're allowed to take a leak, to make sure they're going into the biochemically correct bathroom?
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If only we had laws against molesting people in bathrooms. That would address this problem.
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Uh oh, this guy just did two drugs.
1) That is not a fact. That's your opinion and there are many who would disagree.
2) The percentage of Americans that work for Fortune 500 companies is probably like 3%. That's not indicative of what it's like to be gay in America. Work is just one part of life anyways, and most Americans don't work at big corporations. Most gay discrimination is in social realms, although gays can still be fired without cause in about 20 states in this country (including Michigan).
3) It's not a fight for "who is more oppressed". The NAACP supports gay rights too.
4) No group faces more oppression as adolescents/children than gays do. It's incredibly difficult to be a closeted gay youth, with literally nobody to talk to, confusion, self-loathing, etc, etc.
I love how this whole thread you've been "it's all science! Science 100% and facts!!!1!"...
But when it comes down to whether or not LGBTQ people are oppressed or not, your argument is entirely based on personal anecdote that you claim are "facts"
There are similarities between Jim Crow and LGBT, but it's not a perfect comparison. LGBT exclusion was not often de jure (except in the case of the military). But there was violence against gay people in the U.S., and to a lesser extent there still is. (In San Francisco, there is an ugly history from like the 1950s through the 1970s of police basically bashing people at gay bars, and riots and marches in response to the same; this has also happened in Miami and other cities). That corporations have largely come to accept LGBT people does not mean that discrimination is not still problematic. Where I grew up in Michigan not that long ago these issues were unspeakable and discussed by whispers and innuendo. But there was a lot of casual gay bashing (e.g., kids played 'smear the queer' at recess, things that sucked were 'gay'). I think the NC law is motivated by this same animus. States should not sanction hate, and if they do it is illegitimate.
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