re: Did ESPN really just transition

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When Kobe said Gay or fig or whatever (which doesn't bother me at all) he had to apologize but no one would have ever said "he's gonna lose his job over it"

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That doesn't matter. What Kobe did and what Cooper did are not the same, regardless of the histories of blacks and whites and gays. One of the reasons I would never have jumped on Paula Deen or Dog the Bounty Hunter for their "N's" is because the contexts of the things they said were harmless. Considering the context of what Cooper said, it was a threat of violence in a public gathering, even without "****." The context of what Cooper said couldn't have been worse. Therefore, frick him.

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When Kobe said Gay or fig or whatever (which doesn't bother me at all) he had to apologize but no one would have ever said "he's gonna lose his job over it"

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Because Kobe's a LEGENDARY player and Riley Cooper is some scrub. And Kobe was fined 100K not just told to apologize.