Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.08.05)

By: 2FOR18, understands math

2FOR18, understands math — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:16:36 +0000

Lmao the Koch brothers hate Trump. It’s cool of you to come clean but don’t blame Trump.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:56:52 +0000

racism/prejudice isn’t just limited to white men…it just gets a lot of well deserved press here in the states; racism and prejudice is alive and well around the globe…

Yeah, well here in the States, white men enslaved Africans and forced them to come here and work for free (all under the guise of “capitalism”, hahaha). This practice didn’t last for a few years, or even a few decades, but for 350 years. And now white people are like “that was a long time ago, get over it”, even though African Americans currently make up 34% of the incarcerated population despite being just 12% of the general population, which is only one of many stats that illustrate the institutionalized racism that lives on in this country.

I mean, we aren’t even over the Isiah Era yet, and that only lasted 4 years. Imagine if Isiah was GM for 350 years. We’d owe draft picks into the year 3000 at this point, while the rest of the league was like “you’ve had four GMs since Isiah, get over it already”.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:53:52 +0000

@102

Thank you man!

The biggest basketball news today has been what, Greg Monroe signing with the Raptors? Pretty value signing for a guy who’s not supposed to be more than their 3rd big man, but yeah, off-season is harsh. This year with Kawhi and LeBron moving so quickly to their new teams it has felt specially slow.

By: Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery

Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:28:11 +0000

The Koch lies have been fully exposed by this administration. I won’t give them another nickel. But as you can tell from the cover story, many of their articles are up my alley. Just get the fuck out of here with this Constitutional Convention bullshit.

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:21:00 +0000

@103 ha ha I love the commitment to the rebuttal.

Great thread the last couple of days. Here I was the other day think we were in the doldrums of the off-season on the board, and then you all go and hit us between the eyes with this. Kudos to all contributors. It has been great reading.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:07:59 +0000

Apparently Adam Silver is friends with Jared Kushner. Knickerblogger coming full circle!

Denouncements of Silver as a hypocrite for unclear reasons in three, two,..

By: Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery

Cock Jowles, #1 Purveyor of Wanton Chuckery — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 03:29:19 +0000

Yup, I got caught.

By: Grocer

Grocer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 03:23:06 +0000

@Bruno, the others said it better than I could. Thank you.

By: 2FOR18, understands math

2FOR18, understands math — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:50:05 +0000

Come on jowles. You can’t claim to be a subscriber to Reason while also rip on those evil Koch brothers.
Admit it. You made up the Reason thing and just got caught.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:36:23 +0000

As a leader of one of the very few selective but diverse schools in the NYCDOE (which is, by many accounts, the most segregated public school system in the country,) I find great joy in this conversation. At our school, we have tirelessly promoted the notion that diversity is as powerful of a learning tool as there is, especially when it comes to reckoning with our most daunting societal problems. In other words, it’s not really diversity if it’s just for show or just on paper.

It seems that on days like today, we model what is possible when people from across the racial/ethnic/economic/political spectrum their guard down, measure their words carefully, and truly listen to one other. It doesn’t mean that opinions and deeply-held beliefs will change much, if at all, but I would venture to say that it leaves an imprint. For my part, it’s been great to learn about all of you and from all of you. Cheers!