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Old 01-10-2008, 11:19 PM   #4
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Re: Tiger Woods lynching comments

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Originally Posted by mheisig View Post
The way she said it, her entire demeanor and delivery would lead any reasonable person to conclude it was completely innocuous and nothing more than perhaps a poor choice of words for public TV.

Why "lynching" brings only one thing to mind is beyond me. A lynching is a mob killing without legal authority. If she's guilty of anything, it's of using an illustration that's ridiculously graphic and violent for the point she's trying to make, it has nothing to do with race.

It should be equally bad for her to say, "Well they'll have to stalk you down and blow your brains out in an ally before they can compete." If it's offensive, it ought to be offensive to a broad range of people simply because it's too violent an illustration for comparing it to golf.
while we don't agree on much, with this i think you are dead on. i really think she was trying to compliment woods. and society is way toooo sensitive
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