Bob Huggins and the Oakland athletics announcer r not having a good week.
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We reap what we sow
We have such a baby whiny indoctrinated bunch of goofs here in America where anything said will offend them. Thats the BIG WC which means who cares? LOL I am German, if someone wants to call me a Nazi, so be it. I am not going to whine and get all bent out of shape. I have better things to do. LOL
skyIdub
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I'll reluctantly chime in on the A's announcer....I honestly can't tell. And I say this coming from a deep south (Texas) family where my grandmother was born and raised.
With her southern accent, she would refer to black Americans (as many did from her generation) as "negros"....but when she said it....it sounded like "neegras" or "nigrahs".
I'm not saying that was what this guy did.....but it doesn't sound like an obvious well spoken version of either word. It was an awkward pronunciation of either one.
It's not a good look obviously, but I'm not going to rush to convict him.
With her southern accent, she would refer to black Americans (as many did from her generation) as "negros"....but when she said it....it sounded like "neegras" or "nigrahs".
I'm not saying that was what this guy did.....but it doesn't sound like an obvious well spoken version of either word. It was an awkward pronunciation of either one.
It's not a good look obviously, but I'm not going to rush to convict him.
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Are you referring to Kuiper?
skyIdub
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yeah sorry, I saw references to both incidents
I think it’s more likely one of the following will go down:
1.) Nothing…it blows over. (waits out the news cycle…see Jim Boeheim) I know it’s 2023…but Huggy Bear coaches at West Virginia not Berkeley.
2.) He gets suspended ever so BRIEFLY.
(see Greg McDermott)
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socalini
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It sounded to me like Kuiper started with "nee", and then it went wrong. I would think if it was a slip (of something he was accustomed to saying), he would have started differently and then tried to correct course. If they find that he mispronounced it out of habit, then he certainly deserves to be fired. I'm not convinced it was anything but a marble-mouthed moment at this point though.
socalini
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There's a big difference between some guy on the street calling you a Nazi, and a sportscaster using the n-word on air. If he had called a German guy a Nazi, then it would be apples to apples. Or referred to a German museum as a Gernazi museum.
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I was taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me."
I think the point is not to react to someone's stupidity out of hurt feelings or anger.
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foby
- Bonnaroo Land
socalini
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It was the topic of the post I quoted. So…..Well, that wasn't the topic. So......
foby
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Edit -Nevermind. I concede because the first post covers the announcer. Doesn't quite match the headline. My apologies.
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So…you can’t call people extremely insensitive slang terms that were once, and are still used to spread hate and harm. Just because you don’t mind being called a Nazi doesn’t mean it’s ok to call someone that. End of the debate.
Yup. Even ChatGPT be like “hey… I didn’t write that amateurish drivel.”
The Sprouting Divot
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Dozens of people who stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night are now aware of this story.
I don't think that he gets fired over this unless the AD was already looking for a pretext.
I don't know how the university can keep him employed. You can maybe excuse the first instance but he doubled down and said it again 15-20 seconds later. That was no accident.
If he survives this, he's literally untouchable. Most wouldn't have made it past this morning.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Meyers Leonard knows this all to well!
If this was stated by an employee in the office setting in a corporate environment and if coworkers decided to report the employee for what they perceived to be discrimination or anti-hate speech, that employee would most likely get fired. Meyers Leonard got cut from Miami and it took 2-3 yrs for him to sort of repair his image from the anti-semitic verbiage he used while he was playing video games. Let's be honest. Huggins likely has used that word in the past. Those words don't come out so easily unless it is part of your everyday or every week vocabulary. People make mistakes(I don't think this was a mistake though) but West Virginia now has to make the decision as to whether they want someone like that to represent their university. Everyone has a right to think what they want to think but once you verbalize it like that on a media platform, it is fair game for that to be used against you. If the university president was already so-so on keeping Huggins, maybe this puts it over the top. At the very least, Huggins should be asked to take sensitivity classes and meet with anti hate organizations to get a sense for the damage his words can have. If Meyers Leonard had to do it, then why should a 70 year old coach get a pass? I could care less because it's not our program but this is why our society is as screwed up as it is
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