Chris Culliver vs Riley Cooper

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Why wont the NFL protect gays?

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The NFL hasn't punished Cooper.

Oh ok

This has absolutely nothing to do with the words used and EVERYTHING to do with skin color.

Riley is white, therefor he deserves a more strict punishment according the American media and their agenda. Kobe used a homophobic slur (which absolutely nothing is stronger than the gay agenda that the media has been pushing) and it was all but swept under the rug simply because of skin color.

Basically Stern >>>>>>>> Goodell

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100k is chump change in the NBA and especially for Kobe.

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100K is a big fine even if he can afford it.

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The media didn't try to destroy him and his reputation like they do a white player using the same or other offensive words.

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Because there was no gay NBA player for them to ask how they felt about what Kobe said. If 70% of the NBA was gay it would've been handled differently.

Lets just say it: homophobia is much more acceptable than racial abuse in America today, particularly white on black racism. orders of magnitude more acceptable. racism is one of the biggest taboo areas in society. You just can't expect to say stuff like that in public and get away with it.

Is that a double standard? I'd say so. But the I'm against homophobia as well as all forms of racism.

I don't think this makes Cooper unlucky, more just Culliver lucky in that homophobia isn't such a charged issue, and that there are many more people who find Culliver's views acceptable than Cooper's.

If there's any element of bad luck to coopers story it's that I suspect the word he used gets used on the training field and field of play from white guys to black guys much more often than people realise.

There is a double standard. Everyone know this, Cooper knows this. It doesnt even aggravate me at all compared to the people who dont realize it or continue to whine about it incessantly.

First off Riley's career isn't fricked. Second both things that those guys said are really not that big of a deal and the liberal media blew it out of proportion. Yes they were wrong but big freaking deal one guy doesn't support gays and another guy was drunk and said something he shouldn't have

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Because there was no gay NBA player for them to ask how they felt about what Kobe said. If 70% of the NBA was gay it would've been handled differently.

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Ding ding ding.

Not excusing what Culliver said or trying to demonize Riley, but playing in a sport and being in a locker room full of the people you just "offended" is a huge part of this story.

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