madbamahater
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TGO, this is a pretty black & white issue. You are embarrassing yourself trying to rationalize this fan's misguided comment.
Yes, you are rationalizing it. You are acting like the comment is common trash talk. It's obviously not.I'm rationalizing it? I said if he was my friend standing next to me I would have told him to shut up dummy. I pointed out that there's a lot of virtue signaling going on in here by someone saying offensive things at the same time. I'm saying that this degree of trash talking at a basketball game doesn't need to be dealt with by excessive punishment.
That's embarrassingly disingenuous or stupid of you to thing, TGO.He told him to go home. His home is Uruguay. He didn't call him an offensive name. He didn't indicate that he hates him. He talked smack. It's not that big a deal.
That's embarrassingly disingenuous or stupid of you to thing, TGO.
Besides the blatant and deliberate xenophobia, is it that hard to stick up for one of our own players?
For heaven's sake. It's an idiotic trash chant. I guarantee you Vescovi doesn't give a crap.My God, hope he gets expelled. Ridiculous that he would think that's acceptable.
Also for those saying this is "Trash Talk," no it's not. It's racism plain and simple.
Saying "You Suck" or "We are going to destroy you" is trash talk. Invoking someone's heritage and telling them they need to leave the country is racism.
Who gives a crap. Home crowd is allowed to trash talk. It's just words! Stop being such freakin' crybabies. Hell, we threw pizza boxes at Charles Barkley durkng the warmups.
I'm going to need a moment to see if it's worth going down this rabbit hole with you.A kid says something stupid about a guy going home to his country = thug who should be beaten and banned and outed in public
A kid alludes that police officers should be killed after his valid arrest = misunderstood guy fighting the man?
Students used to wave Dominos pizza boxes at Charles Barkley. That seems worse to me than telling a player from Uruguay to go back to Uruguay... especially when it's in the context of smack talk at a ball game. I don't recall the virtue signalers ever condemning them. Fat shaming is okay I guess.
And I will stick up for Santiago. He doesn't have to return to Uruguay. He has every right to stay here and he can laugh at the dumb Barners. Same for Kyle, Uros, Yves, and Olivier. It is America. Even visitors have rights. Telling ANYBODY to go home doesn't violate anybody's rights. Punishing somebody for saying something offensive does dabble into restricting their 1A protections.
You sound like a pure racist. Not sure where you are form but this is America. Here telling someone to 'go back to your country' is a racist statement. I am sorry that your education and american values failed you.Not a fan of banning someone for a comment like this. Is it uncouth to say? Obviously. Is it worthy of never setting foot in your home arena again? Hardly.