Have the Buffalo Sports media ever been worse?

[Duddy]

hi mike.

 

[Clock]

at TBN, Harrington probably gets a raise from this


HEY GUYS, WE GOT 50 PAGE VIEWS FOR THAT APOLOGY, HIGH FIVE!

LOL'd. Probably true.

It's gotten to the point where I think TBN is embracing his trolling for the attention it hauls in, though I doubt Mike-o and his degree were smart enough to be doing this on purpose as a calculated strategy.

 

[cardiffgiant]

I'll be honest, while I'm beyond the point in my life where I'd throw that term around as an insult, I'm still not all that sensitive to it. I could have respected an apology in which he owned up to it, saying that it was a mistake and that he should have known better. Claiming to know know what the word means was gutless. Not that I'm surprised.

His posts scream "rookie washout" on any forum I've ever participated on.

I know he has a journalism degree, but it seems he has a masters level in d'baggery.

Of course you know that he has a journalism degree, because, like all top journalists, he states so frequently.

 

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Of course you know that he has a journalism degree, because, like all top journalists, he states so frequently.

The funny thing is that in my general experience, people who brag about having a degree tend to greatly overvalue them in a sadly insecure way.

Appealing to authority is generally considered lame.

 

[TehDoak]

Anyone better than me with photoshop?

Just sayin....

 

[McCauleyChirps]

And yet people STILL read and follow him.

Seriously, can't people get the same exact info from elsewhere? Is he really the only source for facts and mindless opinion? If everyone reading this stopped following him on twitter, are you telling me there's a lack of info that you would miss? Really? No one else will fill that void? I find that hard to believe.

The only reason I follow him is to watch if/when he goes down in flames.

 

[McCauleyChirps]

When I was 5 I called my grandmother a lesbian. Heard it on the bus and had no idea what it meant. Still got the belt, still got grounded. This is a grown man who is supposed to be qualified to conduct himself appropriately in a public medium, as his journalism degree should attest too. If nothing else I hope his new Sabres connection goes to someone else from now on.

Haha. That brings back memories. I called my dog a **** (woman who sleeps around, rhymes with putt) and got in trouble for it.

 

[joshjull]

Harrington and Lebatard. Hard to find a horse to back in that one.

 

[B U F F A L O]

You're far too free and certain with your condemnation.

I have multiple autistic, immediate family members that I would lay down my life for. I've used that word. In the right context (certainly not in the public sphere), I don't even regret it necessarily. It's not heartless. It's a word.

We live in a society that acculturates us to offensive language so that it becomes reflexive sometimes, where so much of our strong language is rooted in denigrating a group of people that it's easy to use a term without the specific malice originally intended for it. When you use language that insults another group of people directly without thinking about it, you should be rebuked. We should presume that, at best, you have insensitively chosen to ignore the way that group feels and suffers from prejudice. At worst, we should be wary of your actual malice.

When you use language that does the same thing to your own people, or to yourself, you should still be rebuked for your thoughtlessness, but I can't see imagining that you're insensitive to the pain of your own children, or that you have malice towards your own flesh and blood. It becomes a poor choice. It occupies a completely different context for me. It's something you should be reprimanded for, especially when it's in public like this, but in the sense that you're carelessly allowing other people to hear it and perhaps normalize the term where it should never be normalized. Not in the sense that you have actual cruelty in your heart.

In the end, we care about these words because of the intent reflected in them. They're not magic spells. I don't see a reason to presume his ill intent towards the mentally disabled anymore when I know he has a child with issues. He was careless, not cruel, and he apologized appropriately. That's it for me.

Whoa dude... It was just an observation. I'm sure everyone uses the word in some capacity, Im not innocent on this. I just find it odd that someone that has a loved one who has special needs would use it in a public setting.