The You-Know-Who-Deletes-A-New-Boring-Hang Out - Dong Edition

[Gypsy]

Hockey playoff primer: http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...ings-this-year

[Gypsy]

OH MY GOD, TEEMU SELANNE IS STILL IN THE LEAGUE.

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[deadlegion]

Those laws are for making sure people aren't excluded because of their race/gender/orientation. They really only apply to jobs, colleges, or anything where a person is being hired/chosen over another person -- applying for an apartment, homeowner's association, that sort of thing outside of the workforce. Anti-discrimination laws do not do anything against people who speak out against homosexuals, or who still have deeply ingrained racism. As long as it doesn't devolve into hate speech (inciting violence against individuals), then it's protected by freedom of speech.

Yeah it's pretty much the same here, but you have to be careful making derogatory comments. You don't need to be inciting violence to get yourself into trouble.
But usually it's just your employer that wants to distance themselves from you after such public comments, or corporate entities may withdraw sponsorship.

[Drageuth]

I highly recommend Grantland in general Drag. Really good for sports and pop culture. Lots of smart, insightful articles as well as fun nonsense.

I've been looking for more "intelligent" sports groups to follow. I don't mind finding some of the decent articles from news aggregators, but the homerisms start to get to me when you're reading something written by someone with an obvious bias for their hometown team. It's one of the reasons I hate reading most Edmonton media. They practically fellate the Oilers, no matter how poorly we're doing.

Yeah Title Nine or something like that. Honestly I'm glad that people do have the right to speak out in general. Sure you have wackos like Phelps but overall I think it's good for the nation. If you cut off Phelps then you have to cut off everyone else.

The Phelps are vastly outnumbered by the people using any of the laws/amendments for good. They are a blip in the system who only get media attention because they are the rarity, and therefore make for interesting news. Also, they're batshit insane. And whenever they step out to protest a funeral/event, entire communities seem to step up against them, regardless of their own interests.

I would have been interested to see how many people got behind the Phelps movement is they were portrayed positively in the media rather than negatively, though. I'm sure a ton of people are really just "follow-the-leader-maintain-the-status-quo" when it comes to some of these key moral issues like racism/sexism/discrimination-ism, and I do wonder how much power the media holds in swaying opinions.



Also, haha 2-1 Ducks.

[Drageuth]

Yeah it's pretty much the same here, but you have to be careful making derogatory comments. You don't need to be inciting violence to get yourself into trouble.
But usually it's just your employer that wants to distance themselves from you after such public comments, or corporate entities may withdraw sponsorship.

If you were tied to a corporation or sponsor and made a derogatory comment, you would probably be vilified in the media and almost all companies will distance themselves from you, but that's about as much as they can do. I'd imagine that it's similar in Canada, but I'm not entirely sure.

[Gypsy]

Yes I'm sure you'd be fired from your job if you were employed somewhere and made derogatory comments in public.

[Gypsy]

I've been looking for more "intelligent" sports groups to follow. I don't mind finding some of the decent articles from news aggregators, but the homerisms start to get to me when you're reading something written by someone with an obvious bias for their hometown team. It's one of the reasons I hate reading most Edmonton media. They practically fellate the Oilers, no matter how poorly we're doing.

I can't speak to most of the hockey articles but the main basketball and football writers are very good. Lowe and Barnwell are awesome.

Also, haha 2-1 Ducks.

Welp, game over.

[Drageuth]

Hockey playoff primer: http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...ings-this-year

That article alone sold me on paying attention to this site. Very well written and entertaining. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Drageuth]

I can't speak to most of the hockey articles but the main basketball and football writers are very good. Lowe and Barnwell are awesome.

Welp, game over.

I'll keep my eyes on it for the next couple of weeks and see how they are. I really only follow hockey, so the playoffs are all I'm paying attention to.

It seems like all you guys need is a powerplay and you'll bounce right back into this game. Maybe for the entire series, the only goals that will be scored will be PPGs.

[Gypsy]

I'll keep my eyes on it for the next couple of weeks and see how they are. I really only follow hockey, so the playoffs are all I'm paying attention to.

It seems like all you guys need is a powerplay and you'll bounce right back into this game. Maybe for the entire series, the only goals that will be scored will be PPGs.

Well assuming it's like the other sports it's mainly one writer for each sport, so it's probably easier to bookmark their page as a way to check new articles if you aren't interested in other sports and the pop culture stuff.

I just can't believe Selanne is still in the league. He's like 900 years old.

[Drageuth]

I just can't believe Selanne is still in the league. He's like 900 years old.

Wait, didn't he start with the Jets?

Fffffuuuuuuucccckkk.

[Rasgrez]

[Drageuth]

Also, holy shit at that no-call, ref.

[Drageuth]

[Gypsy]

Hi ras.