University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley said she did not regret canceling games with Brigham Young University after a black player on Duke University’s women’s volleyball team accused BYU fans of hurling racial epithets at her in August, even after a BYU investigation found no evidence of any such behavior.
Staley canceled a scheduled home-and-home series against BYU after the initial allegations were levied by Rachel Richardson, a sophomore on Duke’s volleyball team, saying that “as a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff.”
In a statement delivered to National Review, Staley doubled down on the decision, even in light of the dearth of evidence to support her concerns. “I continue to stand by my position. After my personal research, I made a decision for the well-being of my team. I regret that my university, my athletics director Ray Tanner and others got drawn into the criticism of a choice that I made,” wrote Staley.
So who is actually the racist here? An entire school, a basketball team, and others who were not even in attendance at the volleyball match? Or would it be the coach who just assumes that a "mormon" would have used the racial slur even after no corroborating evidence was found.
The reality is that it was the coach who cancelled games (without cause) because it is important for her to support another black person "right or wrong". As someone who competed in sports, had children who competed in sports, and even coach sports... the entire reasoning is to compete. To cancel competitions because of your own bias is unconscionable.
One gets really tired of these horribly wrong "assumptions" made by people. I know that horribly wrong "assumptions" about people is a historical norm. But we will never get past it if we decide that its is "acceptable" to be a bigot if the bigotry is for a cause or if it acheives a political purpose.
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Never Forget the COVID Fascists
By Trevor Thomas
Recent weeks have made it clear that Democrats don’t know fascism, even when it is staring back at them.
On fascism, the Father of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, wrote: “The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State.”
If ever the American government viewed its authority as “absolute,” if even individual Americans were under the notion that they were “only to be conceived of in their relation to the State,” it was shortly after COVID-19 entered the U.S.
I submit to you that the COVID policies—shutdowns and lockdowns; “stay home, stay safe;” mandatory masking, social distancing, testing, and vaccines; and so on—perpetuated by the American left and those like-minded were the greatest demonstration of fascism the United States has ever known. In the nearly 250-year history of the U.S., never before has the American government exercised such power over its citizenry as it did in the name of “slowing the spread,” “following the science,” and the like. And never before in the history of the U.S. has the exercise of government power been so misinformed and misguided, with such disastrous results.
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