Tiger Woods lynching comments

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Originally Posted by BigSKINBauer

Society isn't too sensitive if her choice of words were because of his skin color. That is a horrible thing to say. But maybe she just used those words and didn't relate them at all to tiger's race. I just think that is hard to do. Lynching someone from a tree brings brings one thing to mind. I don't know if she would have used the same words for a white person. Kind of like when Arthur blank made this comment

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I don't think arthur meant in that way though.

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.