Thursday, May 4, 2017

Banned From Fenway

Okay, so let's get this straight. Someone has been banned from baseball at Fenway Park for his entire lifetime over a racial slur? While I am in no way condoning racial slurs does this penalty seem a tad bit harsh? I mean the guy (Am I right to assume it is a tea party white male? I think so. They are the guilty ones.) didn't murder anyone, didn't spill a nine dollar cup of Fenway beer down someone's back, didn't steal some elderly woman's handbag, didn't toss a smoke-bomb onto the field, didn't have any Republican slogans on his t-shirt. As far as we know he isn't with ISIS. Well on second thought maybe the authoritarian moral overseers of Fenway should ban others as well: those fans that toss out pornographic expletives in unison against the Yankees, chanting Yankees s_ _ k. Perhaps they should also ban anyone that says anything that makes anyone feel uncomfortable, or is not in line with current fashionable orthodoxy. What was that they said a long time ago---something about freedom of speech? But again we today have the luxury of interpreting a living document that will keep up with the times and herd us into the same nice fashions of speech. I am comforted after thinking about it further that we have such guardians of the current morality, that will come down on such infractions as hard as Himmler did in another time, another age.

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