Comments on: Golfweek Editor Fired For Noose Cover

Magazine Apologizes For Image Used For Story On Golf Channel Anchor's Comments

[sevenveils]

Only in the the last year has the media turned the noose into an icon of hate and already it has claimed one of its own. Stupid media

[iceman_1960]

"Yeah, and everyone of them volunteered to join up. What"s your irrelevant point?"
- Posted by FloydZepp at 10:58 AM : Jan 19, 2008

That"s right. They volunteered.

We don"t have to talk about this if it makes you uncomfortable.

[iceman_1960]

"Ask the black mothers of the American cities. Who killed your son? Was it the KKK or a black man that killed him? Come back & report your findings here."
- Posted by Keithle1 at 10:02 AM : Jan 19, 2008

There are a dispropotionate number of Black men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghhanistan to protect your right to paint with a broad brush like this.

But you don"t want to talk about that.

[greeneyes222]

Firing this man was a complete knee-jerk overreaction. Problems don''t go away by burying your head in the sand or arbitrarily ruling out symbols.

[slim1h2o]

The cover is in bad taste, but too, I think some need to get a little bit thick skinned.

After all,, the Noose is a symbol of the old west, as well!

[vmcneal2]

Golf channel anchor..."Jacob Goldstein is such a great golfer that the only way to beat him is to drag him out back and gas him hahahaha" Editor of Golf Weekly...." In reference to the Jacob Goldstein story on the golf channel I think it would be a good idea to put a photo of a swastika on the cover of this weeks mag..don''t worry if people get pissed off we''ll blame Al Sharpton".

[keithle1]

Compare the number of black men the KKK has killed in the last 25 years to the number of black men that black men themselves have killed?

Ask the black mothers of the American cities. Who killed your son? Was it the KKK or a black man that killed him? Come back & report your findings here.

[iceman_1960]

RE: "The enemy of the black man is the black man."

An example of the "Division" Logical Fallacy, and one of the reasons for the common saying that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, d*amned lies and statistics."

Because a group as a whole has a certain statistical characteristic, it doesn"t necessarily follow that individuals in the group have that characteristic. If you suppose that it does follow, when it doesn"t, you commit the fallacy of division.

To go from group statistics for certain minority groups, and then to apply it blindly to the iindividual, as in "The enemy of the black man is the black man," is a logical fallacy.

Racism is always based on faulty thought processes like this.

Ref:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/f/fallacy.htm#Division

[iceman_1960]

The law abiding person of any race is not the enemy of anyone.

The criminal is.

It just pollutes the whole discussion to keep bringing race into it.

[iceman_1960]

RE: "The enemy of the black man is the black man."

Why not say, "The enemy of the law abiding person is the criminal" ?

That would be a lot more accurate.