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Originally posted by RookieDude
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
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Originally posted by RookieDude
Of course, the official that kicks this kid out for using HONKY or the "N" word, is probably the same official that "T's" up the player for hearing him say the "F" word after a missed shot.(Not loud enough for anyone else to hear but the official and the player.)
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Oh of course....
Why even ask the question? It's obvious that your mind is already made up and closed anyway.
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Possibly...but I'm just giving my own personal opinion on this particular subject.
I would venture to say you have a few of your own "close minded" opinions when it comes to officiating philosophies JR...so what? We can take it or leave it...just as you can my various philosophies.
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Yup, I gotta admit that I certainly am "close minded" about some subjects, Dude.
However, I think that you got into a very flawed analogy above though and made some assumptions about them that were kind of a stretch, even for me. Now, this is certainly jmo, but I just can't agree that you can put normal profanity in the same general area as racial comments. They're about as different as you can get. Personally, I'm very close minded about one of them (racial comments) and a helluva lot more open-minded about the other one (random F-shots--even if they're directed at me). I might let a kid or a coach skate under certain circumstances where profanity is involved, but no one is gonna skate if I hear a racial comment. And I don't give a damn
who made that racial comment or who it's directed at either. I also make up my
own mind as to whether it's a racial comment or not; I don't think that you can do it any other way. It's simply a blanket no-tolerance, no warning situation with me. And if someone wants to say "Hey, we were just funning", my reply is "That's nice. Tell it the people who are getting my report"-- because I'm putting one in, and not just to that kid's coach or AD either. If someone wants to then read that report and say "Hey, JR, you maybe were just a l'il hasty on this one and maybe wrong too", and I get my wrist slapped, well, that's OK with me too.
I wasn't really that clear above, Dude, but that's kinda where I'm coming from personally. Certainly doesn't make me right and anybody or everybody else wrong either....it is and remains just my own personal opinion.
I also hope that you didn't misconstrue what I said above from a personal standpoint. I certainly respect and value your opinions, even if I don't agree with some of them every now and then.