Dat Dude
Dennis Stamp
Wait, what?
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Post by Dat Dude on Jan 21, 2014 12:52:39 GMT -5
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Toxik916
Hank Scorpio
Sacramento Proud
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Post by Toxik916 on Jan 21, 2014 13:09:14 GMT -5
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shaker
Team Rocket
The numbers don't lie - and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice!
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Post by shaker on Jan 21, 2014 13:13:38 GMT -5
I never apologize. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am. Sorry to piggyback on your comment, but I also never apologize. I apologize to anyone this offends.
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Lila
El Dandy
Slip N Slide World Champion 1997
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Post by Lila on Jan 21, 2014 13:14:51 GMT -5
I'm still hardcore side-eyeing Madonna after Friday's events and her weak ass apology she made.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 13:37:27 GMT -5
More new school wah wah bullshit.
Simmons doesn't hurt anyone, he just A.) Wants to be really, really, REALLY flamboyant. And B.) Help fat women lose weigh through the magic of vaguely dancing around to dated music.
To expect him to do anything more is to be an idiot.
That old queen owes you nothing.
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Glitch
King Koopa
Not Going To Die; Childs, we're goin' out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here and we're not with him... burn him.
Watching you.
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Post by Glitch on Jan 21, 2014 18:31:39 GMT -5
I will never apologize for adding dirtiness to the mainsite. Never!!!
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Jan 21, 2014 18:41:10 GMT -5
With Richard Sherman being the latest person made to issue a public apology, it makes me ask "Why?" Because we live in a society where everybody is made out of glass and we have to worry about making them feel uncomfortable.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Jan 21, 2014 19:00:40 GMT -5
sorry about this song
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 23:13:11 GMT -5
The disheartening thing is the power that is given to social media "outrage". And then, once the phony apology happens, it's like "well he did the right thing." WHAT? The person meant what they said when they said it, and gave a phony apology to shut you up. But hey, gotta "protect your brand", right? It's dumb on both levels, that it's done in the first place and that it actually works.
And in the case of Richard Sherman...what's he apologizing for? Calling Michael Crabtree a sorry receiver? How on earth does that hurt anyone? If it's the whole "it's overshadowing the team's win" dealio, well guess what? You made another headline by apologizing for being a human being and making a blunt statement that you obviously believe to be true. It's not like the apology makes it all go away.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 23:32:29 GMT -5
In the case of Richard Sherman, he issued the apology for himself and by himself, because he felt bad that his antics were getting more attention than the team's win. It had nothing to do with anybody being entitled. Sherman's situation is just what sparked it for me. I understand why he apologized and that's good on him. It was more of a rant on how a lot of people in general get up in arms when someone makes a controversial statement. Sherman in just the most recent person who's been involved in such media coverage. I guess a better example would be Phil Robertson. While I may not agree with the things he said I do find it insane that such a huge deal was made of it to the point where he was "suspended" from his show. Public figures have just as much of a right to their opinions as we do. If I make a derogatory statement about anything I'm not expected to take back what I said, nor should anybody else. If you said what he'd said in public in just about any job on earth, you'd be in just as much trouble for it. This IS him being treated like a member of the public.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 0:19:35 GMT -5
Sherman's situation is just what sparked it for me. I understand why he apologized and that's good on him. It was more of a rant on how a lot of people in general get up in arms when someone makes a controversial statement. Sherman in just the most recent person who's been involved in such media coverage. I guess a better example would be Phil Robertson. While I may not agree with the things he said I do find it insane that such a huge deal was made of it to the point where he was "suspended" from his show. Public figures have just as much of a right to their opinions as we do. If I make a derogatory statement about anything I'm not expected to take back what I said, nor should anybody else. If you said what he'd said in public in just about any job on earth, you'd be in just as much trouble for it. This IS him being treated like a member of the public. We don't form mobs against regular every day people the way we do celebrities. Case in point, the Natasha Leggero thing that was brought up, she makes a joke about war vets being too old to chew solid food, then receives hundreds to thousands of legitimate death threats and not a one of them held accountable for them. Yet if say Alec Baldwin then goes on twitter, standing up for veterans by tweeting that someone should shoot her then he'd surely eat shit for it. I'm certain everyone who tweeted death threats came out alright. And regular people continue to tweet just heinous things with zero repercussions. But even if we were all treated equally in that respect doesn't exactly make it right. Phil Robertson is an exceptional case because it's one of the few times the public actually fought back against the outrage and won. The upside of that is you rarely see that, the downside to me is that I don't think it was done out of the defense of free speech or anything outside of "we want that old maniac back on our stupid duck show". I'm not sure how much was really learned in all of it. But I'd like to see people less selective about when and who they stick up for their right to speak honestly. I mean seriously, the guy was asked, you don't ask a guy about his faith unless you consider it can go in that direction. As much as young people need role models, young people could also stand to learn people are assholes too, there are enough of both genuine positive role models to draw inspiration from that we don't need to force a square peg in a round hole. It's on parents to be the role models anyways.
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Wolfaga
ALF
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Post by Wolfaga on Jan 22, 2014 1:31:52 GMT -5
I was the guy that banned Pokemon cards in my school. I apologize for nothing...
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Sektor
Unicron
The OTHER Big Red Machine.
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Post by Sektor on Jan 22, 2014 1:46:49 GMT -5
Richard Sherman needed to apologize because someone needs to think of the children. They're the ones who are being harmed in this whole ordeal. Not Richard Sherman, someone who's had to deal with the not-so-subtle racial undercurrent of this limp-wristed, lazy internet backlash to nothing. It's his fault for making an inoffensive and quantifiable statement that's he's the best at what he does.
Yeah, this event was particularly stupid and meaningless, but not every backlash is about nothing. When you say something disgustingly offensive about a group of people (like, oh, I don't know, maybe that black people were happier under Jim Crow law?), you can't turn around and act like you're being unfairly persecuted. If it's truly something you believe in, then stick by it. But a lot of times people's views change because they make their ignorance public, and someone let's them know that what they think really does affect people in a negative way. And that's not people being forced to think differently because of the so-called PC Nazis, that's just f***ing basic human empathy.
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