[外電] Top Stories of 2008: Athletes discover their words aren'

看板Mavericks (達拉斯小牛)作者popstarkirby (不會嘴砲的POP)時間17年前 (2008/12/28 10:20)推噓1(1推 0噓 1→)

留言2則, 2人參與討論串1/1

http://tinyurl.com/7pgrlx uly 13: "'The Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't celebrate this [expletive]. I'm black." – Mavericks' Josh Howard Dec. 2: "It's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about." – Stars' Sean Avery 10 More and more athletes are discovering that just because we have the right to free speech doesn't mean they can say whatever they want. And it doesn't matter whether their words are spontaneous or calculated. More sports Josh Howard faced public ridicule and calls for the NBA to suspend him after his foolish comments about the national anthem were captured on a cellphone and posted for the world to see on YouTube. Sean Avery was suspended by the NHL, and eventually lost his job with the Stars, after he gathered the media around him and made crude remarks about his former girlfriend and her new beau. As a society, we need to be careful about this trend. This country is great because we're founded on tolerance. We have freedom of expression. So it doesn't matter how stupid or ignorant I think an athlete's views are. He has a right to espouse them. There's a significant difference between yelling fire in a crowded theater or uttering some racial epithet and criticizing the national anthem or taking shots at a former girlfriend. You want to boo athletes who do that? Go ahead. In fact, do it as long and as lustily as you like. But if we start punishing folks just because we vigorously disagree with their viewpoints, then we're all taking a step backward. XXL說2010年ASG由Josh唱國歌開場... 不知真假@@ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 220.131.225.200