Question about the Don Sterling thing

[jberryhill]

I don't follow every media outlet, but amid all of the commentary on this man's interesting racial opinions, has there been a word about the perhaps more immediate sexist context in which these comments were made?

Maybe I don't know the whole backstory, but this guy's treatment of women seems more directly abusive than any effect his attitudes may have had on his employees.

On edit: and no, I am not inviting nor making a "what's worse" comparison. I'm merely surprised that the well-roundedness of his odious character is being lost in the emphasis on one strand of it.

[SummerSnow]

1. Well yeah , he is a sexist fool, a control freak, and a racist fool.

He was demanding who she associates with. He even told her 'who' she can have sex with. His wife, she knows he has mistresses. But, they all seem to not mind it cause he has money. Not giving him a free pass but yucch .

[jberryhill]

7. His problem was not "who she associates with"

He did say she could have sex with anyone she wanted.

[Marie Marie]

2. Seems like an equal opportunity bigot to me.

Typical older Republican. If you are not a white male - you are beneath and inferior to him.

[undeterred]

3. He's a wealthy man - which is the only reason

a beautiful young woman would give him the time of day.

[The Straight Story]

4. Perhaps because

His remarks (the ones I have seen) were directed at one whole group of people en masse and his comments/actions of a sexist nature were focused more on one or two people.

[jberryhill]

9. His remarks were "directed at" one person

His hitherto not well concealed attitudes towards others where directed a whole group of people, although his posture toward whom he tolerates having sex with his mistress is considerably more broadminded than, I would suppose, many people here would be under similar circumstances.

I haven't quite decoded what "wife", "estranged wife", "girlfriend" and "mistress" are meant to convey in the various reports I have seen about his personal relationships, such as they are.

But proceeding on the original "girlfriend" characterization, what sort of racist doesn't care who his "girlfriend" is screwing?

[The Straight Story]

10. By whole group I was referring to:

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his girlfriend that he doesn't want her to bring black people to his games or post pictures with black people on Instagram, according to unverified audio obtained by TMZ.

If his comments had been 'women' as a group than I would see the sexism in it (same as if he said jews/men/etc would be directing comments at a whole group).

I haven't seen all his comments so perhaps I missed the ones relating to all women vs his actions towards a few women (his girlfriend/wife/etc).

[AngryAmish]

13. He does not care whi she is screwing since he is 80, in poor health and probably impotent

She is paid to make him look good.

[jberryhill]

16. I'm thinking racism is the least of this guy's flaws

I always shit next to the flowers so my turds look good.

[tkmorris]

5. He's terribly abusive of women, as well as minorities

What's worse is that none of this was a secret. It's odd that this tape is making people act like they just found out what a jackass he is. People who had any idea who he was prior to this knew EXACTLY what he was like. It's been documented nine ways from Sunday.

Some of the background on this guys long history of being a waste of DNA can be found here. http://www.sbnation.com/2014/4/28/5660150/donald-sterling-la-clippers-racist-comments-tmz-adam-silver and here http://www.vox.com/cards/donald-sterling/what-other-awful-things-has-sterling-done-in-the-past .

[Dorian Gray]

14. I just found out

and I think most of the sports audience just found out.

People are saying it was an open secret his behaviour. But the media never reported on it as they are now.

[lunasun]

6. and i think he may be self loathing too changed his ethnic name

Donald Tokowitz (legally added Sterling as his last name as an adult)

[Jesus Malverde]

12. It's very common in business and the entertainment world.

Anglicisation or anglicization is the process of converting anything to more "English" norms.

Spiro Agnew - Spiro Theodore Anagnostopoulos
Woody Allen - Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall - Joan Perske
Jack Benny - Benny Kubelsky
Albert Brooks - Albert Einstein
George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick McManus
Snoop Dogg - Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.
Dr. Dre - Andre Romelle Young
Dr. Drew - David Drew Pinsky
Kirk Douglas - Issur Danielovitch Demsky
Audrey Hepburn - Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston
John Forbes Kerry - family name Kohn
Larry King - Lawrence Harvey Zeigler
Benjamin Netanyahu - family name Mileikowsky
Micheal Savage - Michael Alan Weiner
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
Gene Wilder - Jerome Silberman
Natalie Wood - Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko

Got a lame name - change it.

[trublu992]

8. He has the typical rich man attitude of racism sexism and selfishness at the expense of

everyone else. But since we have built a culture of money worship he's encouraged.

[Jesus Malverde]

11. Listening to the tape

It sounded like an senile old man and his nurse.

Old Man: Don't bring black people to the game.

Nurse: would you like some orange juice honey?

She trolled him soooo bad.

[kelliekat44]

15. Hell hath no furry .....she played him well. nt

[jberryhill]

17. Really?

I knew people were into that, but didn't know it was a religion

[Jesus Malverde]

18. lolol

[jberryhill]

19. Seriously, though

There are few versions of Hell like the one where you check into a hotel and find out they are having a convention there.

But I guess it is some variation on "All Dogs Go To Heaven"

[bemildred]

20. I live in LA.

Sterling regularly places full page ads in the LA Times about speaking engagements and awards he has arranged for himself, and various real estate projects. The real estate ads generally have one or more young women in scanty attire. You are right, he is shallow all the way down.