re: Multiple NBA Teams Phasing Out Term 'Owner'

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This is disingenuous. The word predates America itself, and is hardly used in any sort of derogatory context in the enterprise in question. Your conflation of ownership of a franchise with ownership of human beings is willfully disingenuous on your part,

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Obviously.

What is so frustrating is that not EVERYTHING touched by these guys is wrong on its face. There have been a handful of things which really did need to be addressed. Think the Me Too stuff. some of that was outrageous and guys needed be called out for it. then things went haywire and we were suddenly told to "Believe ALL Women," as if this made any sense in any way. Again...taking something that started with good intentions and bending it so far as to make it absurd.

No one REALLY thinks that calling a person who OWNS a sports franchise an OWNER is hurting anyone's feelings or tapping into black athletes historical memories of family members generations ago having been owned. I'd bet anything not even Dray believes this. Some of this shite is so absurd you'd think 4Chan was putting guys up to just fricking with the public...