Shit List Entry # 347: Slyfox
... Let's face it, dude's usually right on stuff. And for the most part, I agree with him on things. Even when I don't (see; Zimmerman, George), dude's argument is based in logic, and mine emotion. Point being, as much as I hate admitting it, dude was right. He makes it a thing to be right. You know, like it matters here (spoilers; it doesn't). And for the most part, we agree on things.
But boy, is he ever fucking wrong with this sentence.
I feel the same way about anyone whose greatest transgression is a victimless turn of words
Fucking Hell.
Now, I imagine (hope) that Slyfox has been informed on matters. After all, if nothing else, dude's really informed. So when I bury him for saying a moronic statement, I'm actually giving him credit here. Because you see, to suppose Donald Sterling's greatest transgression is "a harmless turn of words" is either
A. So completely unaware of who Donald Sterling, it's actually embarassing.
B. Talking out of your ass.
So, really, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt, and saying that it's B. that you're absolutely talking out of your ass, to try to prove your point. And for someone who prides himself on being so right, well, you're wrong, fucko.
I mean, I guess you could plead ignorance to all of Sterling's rancor shit. After all, the rest of the world (sponsors included) seemed to have forgotten that Sterling was a racist for thirty years before getting caught on tape. But that isn't the issue I'm bringing you to task for. What I'm bringing you to task for is this use of word.
Victimless
Fucking really? Now, I know what you'll say. That there is no direct victim to Sterling's words.
And you know what? That's actually right. Except for the indirect victims that have their beliefs confirmed that there's a drastic imbalance between blacks and whites, there is no direct victim to what Sterling said. (Which, by the way, those indirect victims are enough for me to tell you to kiss my ass)
But Donald Sterling
did have victims before, with much larger ramifications. You want to read about them?
"JUST EVICT THE BITCH." It was 2002, and Donald Sterling was talking to Sumner Davenport, one of his four top property supervisors, about a tenant at the Ardmore Apartments. Already the largest landowner in Beverly Hills, Sterling had recently acquired the Ardmore as part of his move to extend his real estate empire eastward toward Koreatown and downtown LA. As he did, Sterling "wanted tenants that fit his image," according to testimony Davenport gave in a discrimination lawsuit brought against Sterling in 2003 by 19 tenants and the nonprofit Housing Rights Center.
Cultivating his image, Davenport said, meant no blacks, no Mexican-Americans, no children (whom Sterling called "brats") and no government-housing-subsidy recipients as tenants. So according to the testimony of tenants, Sterling employees made life difficult for residents in some of his new buildings. They refused rent checks, then accused renters of nonpayment. They refused to do repairs for black tenants and harassed them with surprise inspections, threatening residents with eviction for alleged violations of building rules.
When Sterling first bought the Ardmore, he remarked on its odor to Davenport. "That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean," he said, according to Davenport's testimony. "And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day." He added: "So we have to get them out of here." Shortly after, construction work caused a serious leak at the complex. When Davenport surveyed the damage, she found an elderly woman, Kandynce Jones, wading through several inches of water in Apartment 121. Jones was paralyzed on the right side and legally blind. She took medication for high blood pressure and to thin a clot in her leg. Still, she was remarkably cheerful, showing Davenport pictures of her children, even as some of her belongings floated around her.
Davenport reported what she saw to Sterling, and according to her testimony, he asked: "Is she one of those black people that stink?" When Davenport told Sterling that Jones wanted to be reimbursed for the water damage and compensated for her ruined property, he replied: "I am not going to do that. Just evict the bitch."
Repairs never came. The shower stopped working, and the toilet wouldn't flush; Jones needed to use a plunger and disposed of waste tissue in bags. Kandynce Jones departed the home she loved but that caused her so much grief when she passed away, on July 21, 2003, at age 67.
Seem like he's victimless now?
I know, I know,
I don't see what this has to do with his racist rant on TMZ
It's a buildup of racist behavior, that is empowered by people like Donald Sterling (who never punished him when he had ample evidence of his racism) and those around him.
And you want to tell me that there's no victim to his racism?
I don't believe you believe that, at all.
And if you do, fuck off.