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Celtics Fans Are Apparently Nazi Sympathizers
by 100%InjuryRate
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Some of you may be familiar with the work of ESPN's Jemele Hill. She, on occasion, takes things a little bit too far in her columns.

But this, my friends, may be a new low even for her.

In a recent article absolutely blasting fans of the Celtics, she likened rooting for the Celtics to being a Nazi sympathizer and cheering for Cold War commie Russia.

Almost unbelievably, the editors at ESPN let this doozy of a sentence stand for a brief period of time on the site:
Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.
Come on Jemele, tell us how you really feel!

Obviously this sentence has since been taken down, and ESPN even managed to wipe it out of the cached version.

I would go ballistic on Hill here, seeing as Hitler jokes are a no-no, but she did make fun of Skip Bayless in the article as well. That I totally approve of.

Celtics Fans Are No Longer Nazi Sympathizers [Deadspin]
Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics [Page 2]
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Like Screamin' A Shitt (a.k.a. Steven A Smith), Jemelle has few opinions that do not involve black-white perspective and ESPN knew that when they hired her.  The sad thing in America is that the people who most want to talk about race are usually the ones least intellectually equipped to do so.  The best reporter -sports or otherwise-- is one that I can read without knowing what color/sex/religion/political affiliation they happen to be.  It's not like I give a rat's ass about it until one is foolish enough to insert color as a crutch like she did on E360 (As RespecttheStar noted above) ... Yeah, she hates NASCAR, Poker (parkour???), any team that ever had both Kevin McHale and Larry Bird on it, and anything else she doesn't want to learn and can avoid by slandering all african-americans with a stereotype by saying, "Black people aren't interested in that..."  In a different era, that would have been called biased, intellectually lazy, and the complete antithesis of journalism --and rightly so.
 
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Look, it is Bill Simmons, his dad, J-Bug, and House.
 
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Next to Bryant Gumble, she is the most racist columnist in sports journalism today. She once said(on the first episode of E60) that parkour was not a sport because, and i quote "its not something black people would be interested in". Could you imagine a white broadcatser saying basketball wasnt a sport because its njot something white people are interested in? I see burning at the stakes, ACLU lawsuits being handed out like candy, and WWIII. Ok, so mabey not WWIII, but close enough.
 
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There has to be some good African-American sportswriter we can find out there to replace these hacks like Jemele Hill and Stephen A. Smith.  They can't possibly be the best we can do.

 

Michael Holley, Michael Smith, JA Adande, they are out there.

 
 
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Wow. This chick has some serious issues. I'm talking deep, disturbing, carves-I heart Pistons-into-her-flesh-on-a-daily-basis issues.

Okay, I get that she doesn't like Boston. I even get that she hates Boston (I doubt they're very fond of her either), but to take the darkest, most sickening part of humanity and equate it with a group of people who are just showing love for a game and a team makes her absolutely disgusting.

Way to go ESPN! You sure picked a winner in her!

 
 
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Like Screamin' A Shitt (a.k.a. Steven A Smith), Jemelle has few opinions that do not involve black-white perspective and ESPN knew that when they hired her.  The sad thing in America is that the people who most want to talk about race are usually the ones least intellectually equipped to do so.  The best reporter -sports or otherwise-- is one that I can read without knowing what color/sex/religion/political affiliation they happen to be.  It's not like I give a rat's ass about it until one is foolish enough to insert color as a crutch like she did on E360 (As RespecttheStar noted above) ... Yeah, she hates NASCAR, Poker (parkour???), any team that ever had both Kevin McHale and Larry Bird on it, and anything else she doesn't want to learn and can avoid by slandering all african-americans with a stereotype by saying, "Black people aren't interested in that..."  In a different era, that would have been called biased, intellectually lazy, and the complete antithesis of journalism --and rightly so.
 
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Funny. I feel reading a Jemele Hill column to be like being lynched or being put into a gas chamber.*
*Obviously, I don't feel this way.  Just pointing out how stupid her argument is.
 
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Chachi_Azzhola wrote:
Like Screamin' A Shitt (a.k.a. Steven A Smith), Jemelle has few opinions that do not involve black-white perspective and ESPN knew that when they hired her.  The sad thing in America is that the people who most want to talk about race are usually the ones least intellectually equipped to do so.  The best reporter -sports or otherwise-- is one that I can read without knowing what color/sex/religion/political affiliation they happen to be.  It's not like I give a rat's ass about it until one is foolish enough to insert color as a crutch like she did on E360 (As RespecttheStar noted above) ... Yeah, she hates NASCAR, Poker (parkour???), any team that ever had both Kevin McHale and Larry Bird on it, and anything else she doesn't want to learn and can avoid by slandering all african-americans with a stereotype by saying, "Black people aren't interested in that..."  In a different era, that would have been called biased, intellectually lazy, and the complete antithesis of journalism --and rightly so.
On a related note, has Stephen A. Smith ever started a sentence in his life without the phrase "As a black man myself....."
 
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Chachi_Azzhola wrote:
Like Screamin' A Shitt (a.k.a. Steven A Smith), Jemelle has few opinions that do not involve black-white perspective and ESPN knew that when they hired her.  The sad thing in America is that the people who most want to talk about race are usually the ones least intellectually equipped to do so.  The best reporter -sports or otherwise-- is one that I can read without knowing what color/sex/religion/political affiliation they happen to be.  It's not like I give a rat's ass about it until one is foolish enough to insert color as a crutch like she did on E360 (As RespecttheStar noted above) ... Yeah, she hates NASCAR, Poker (parkour???), any team that ever had both Kevin McHale and Larry Bird on it, and anything else she doesn't want to learn and can avoid by slandering all african-americans with a stereotype by saying, "Black people aren't interested in that..."  In a different era, that would have been called biased, intellectually lazy, and the complete antithesis of journalism --and rightly so.
On a related note, has Stephen A. Smith ever started a sentence in his life without the phrase "As a black man myself....."
 
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Chachi_Azzhola wrote:
Like Screamin' A Shitt (a.k.a. Steven A Smith), Jemelle has few opinions that do not involve black-white perspective and ESPN knew that when they hired her.  The sad thing in America is that the people who most want to talk about race are usually the ones least intellectually equipped to do so.  The best reporter -sports or otherwise-- is one that I can read without knowing what color/sex/religion/political affiliation they happen to be.  It's not like I give a rat's ass about it until one is foolish enough to insert color as a crutch like she did on E360 (As RespecttheStar noted above) ... Yeah, she hates NASCAR, Poker (parkour???), any team that ever had both Kevin McHale and Larry Bird on it, and anything else she doesn't want to learn and can avoid by slandering all african-americans with a stereotype by saying, "Black people aren't interested in that..."  In a different era, that would have been called biased, intellectually lazy, and the complete antithesis of journalism --and rightly so.

not poker....parkour....pretty much urban gymnastics....just for the record, these guys are probably the purest of all athletes. Flippin off walls, climbing walls, jumping over cars(a good example of it is 3DD's new music video "its not my time". The guy in it is doing parkour).

 
 
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