Former Blazers Coach Terry Stotts Candidate for Kings Job

[pdxKingsFan]

Even if you cure sexism, racism and classism I believe nepotism and cronyism will never go away.

 

[kb02]

That... is a very disingenuous interpretation of what I said.

However...

-Isms are not binary, but rather exist on a spectrum. And one of the reasons why they'll never go away is because too many people are hardwired to give the benefit of the doubt. And if your threshold for "Is this bigotry?" is that someone has to literally say, to your face, "I hate you because you are X," and nothing that falls short of that is bigotry to you, then you may be complicit in allowing a lot of "soft" bigotry to happen. With respect to the anecdotes you cited, you didn't provide enough information to say whether there was any sexism/racism happening there, or not. All you said was that you didn't personally experience it, based on what you understand to be sexism/racism, which is only but so useful. For example, at the firm you worked at where you were the only POC:

1. What percentage of firms that do similar work in your city are all of the partners/managing partners white?
2. What percentage of those firms have non-white hires, relative to the number of qualified applicants?
3. What percentage of the firms in your city have non-white people doing the equivalent of your job, relative to the number of qualified applicants, and what do the demographics of their managing partners look like?

The answers to those questions don't necessarily indicate racism... but they could, and you're probably not going to be able to find any examples of a hiring manager telling a candidate to their face, "We're not hiring you because you're not white." Only an incredibly obnoxious or incredibly stupid person would be that overt.

Again, can you provide a source for what the universal standard of sexism is? And racism?

 

[Warhawk]

one seems to not be okay because I said her champion would be Matina

This is factually incorrect. In fact, I've stated previously (last year or two, perhaps? I unfortunately don't remember exactly when or what the thread was about) I would personally be very happy with the team giving Hammon an interview for the HC job if she's available to take it and is interested (due to her work under Pop and the kudos she has earned for what she's done there).

What isn't "OK" (at least by me) is how you made the statement and some of the insinuations that appeared to be tied to that (whether overtly intended or not).

As @Mr. S£im Citrus has already stated much of what I was getting at in a better way than I ever could I'm not going to delve into it any more, but I didn't want to let this false assumption on your end stand uncorrected.