In other racial news…
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/08/15/espn-apology-fantasy-football-auction
Yikes. Great timing.
Is this really that big of a deal? They weren’t selling black people, they were doing a FANTASY auction of football players. It also included white players. According to the article you linked too, auctions are common in fantasy football.
"Auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN’s segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players. Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize,” ESPN said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports.
I’ve done Fantasy for many years now and this story proves that if someone does something as simple as taking something out of context, they’ll get offended real quick.
Just once I wish you guys could admit that maybe just maybe black people could have an issue with something that you guys don’t.
Just once I wish that you guys could admit that "maybe just maybe* just because some black people have an issue with something, doesn’t automatically make it a valid complaint.
Ok, good to know. Please be sure to let black people know each time what they are allowed to have an issue with, so they can stop making the same mistake of being offended.
*sigh*
Fact: People sometimes get offended at things that aren’t reasonable to be offended over.
Once again, thanks for clarifying that for black people. I’m sure they feel much better now.
Do disagree with the fact that I stated? Are you saying it never happens that someone gets offended at something that wasn’t reasonable to get offended at? That never happens???
If a black person says they are offended because Jack White won’t change his name to Jack Black, I wouldn’t consider that reasonable. If a black person says they are offended because an ESPN sketch includes something that is reminiscent of a slave auction, I’m not gonna argue. I get that it’s fantasy football (I play) and I get that white players were there too. It’s clear ESPN did not do it intentionally. But it looks bad and there’s no reason us white people should be lecturing black people for pointing that out.
I was not lecturing anyone. I was giving my opinion. White people are allowed to have opinions and say them.
Your opinion (and darthrush;s and mfm’s) is that black people should not be upset that something with at least tangential racial connotations happened. That’s a lecture, no matter how much you want to dress it up as opinion.
And this isn’t about what you are allowed to do, it’s about what you should (or in this case should not) do. You have the right to tell people to get over racial things. But you shouldn’t.
My opinion is that nobody should be upset about something with completely vague and indistinct connotations of something that happened over 150 years ago. Anyone upset about this fantasy football auction absolutely should get over it. Be upset at real problems, like Donald Trump refusing to single out white supremacists for criticism, or the mass incarceration of American citizens for nonviolent, victimless crimes.
There’s enough time to be upset at all of those things.
But I’m sure your opinion on this is appreciated by all the black people who don’t understand the issue the way you do.
I didn’t see this before I responded to the other one, but here’s the thing, nobody understands 19th century American slave auctions any better than historians that are well-versed on the subject. That’s because nobody who participated in or was victim of an American slave auction is still alive. Even the grandchildren of those people would have to be at least 100 years old. If we were talking about segregation or lynching, then that’s a completely different issue because there are tens of thousands of people today who lived through it, and many of the perpetrators are still living and were never brought to justice. It’s callous to say this, but it’s been 150 years. I’m not even saying, “Get over it,” or anything quite so blunt. I just don’t think it’s unreasonable to remind people that everybody that was directly affected by American slavery is long dead when people start getting outraged over things that everybody knows have nothing to do with racism, slavery, or anything of the sort, and this fantasy football thing is one of them.
EDIT: As for my point about the Donald Trump comments downplaying white supremacists and the mass incarceration of primarily black people that have committed victimless crimes that shouldn’t even be crimes in the first place, this kind of nonsense where people get bent out of shape about semantics that no one in their right mind would take offense to gets a lot of people to disregard the very real problems that blacks, mexicans, Indians, and other racial minorities face in the United States. When issues like this are touted as examples of America’s racism problem, people don’t take it seriously. I know I didn’t for that reason.