As far as I can tell, he doesn't swear. It's even in his biography. He doesn't like coaches that do it and he doesn't seem do to it himself. I have never once heard him use a word that would be considered even mildly offensive.
Most people would get fired on the spot for using that word in a professional environment and I would fire any employee that I heard use it.
Your magnificent signal to highest virtue is noted.
You would fire a black employee for using it?
I understand the hypocrisy of one colored skin using the word with no impunity while another colored skin is destroyed for using the term. It's a hypocritical double standard and even many negro skinned people admit it's a double standard.
It should never be said. It's completely disrespectful.
Each of your examples expresses the polarization of America by a cancel culture rather than a unity of America as "e pluribus unum."
As far as we know, he didnt use the word, he spoke the written word, technically a big difference in my book. If he read it more than once, that would sway my thoughts on the subject for sure.
The story says he said it multiple times.
I worked in a healthcare company that provided care in low-income neighborhoods and cities. Most of our patients and staff were African American. I was surprised at how often I heard that word. Was advised by HR not to make a policy banning or restricting language. That left me saying, “please don’t say that word” when I heard our employees using it.
Did that employee take someone's iPad and read off of it to prove a point and try to be an an edgy, abusive jerk? Yes.
Not challenging anybody on Coach's use of colorful language or not but have to admit i'm sure that I've seen him say "bull@#&t" a time or two to the refs over contested calls.
Wha??? Please stop saying African American?
I will go out on a limb and say that you like to signal your virtue on a daily basis.
I can tell this is a hill you'll die on. But why not just say black person? Why "colored" or "negro"? It's a little...1870s?
Does it really matter? No. Negro is Spanish for Black. It accurately describes skin color. Your nitpick is irrelevant.
Just like the "n" word is a person's prerogative, yet both are offensive words.
You sir, ripped the words right out of my brain.
There it is... the white privilege card. Apparently it is okay for other "cultures" to set rules for white people though, right? If we are all one culture, why don't the same rules apply to all?
So, let's say that this is right, that all of these groups has their own distinct culture. That makes it okay for one of these cultures to set rules for another, as long as it's not whites setting rules for non-whites? Are the laws of the state of MN appropriate? They are theoretically the same for every "culture." I am seriously confused here.
Ummm, Muslim isn’t a race. And earlier in this thread we were told we couldn’t use African-American.
Nobody is saying that. Nobody.
That’s just making excuses for someone to be able to use a hateful word and perpetuates hatred and division. People need to be better than that.
