Originally posted by RippinandTearin
are you saying we should just forget what all these players did and just pretend like it never happened? i can't do that. do you think the victims and families can just forget and move on? i dont..
and sure i've made mistakes, and everyone does, but nothing as drastic as rape, thats a serious criminal offense.
Never at all did I state "we should just forget what all these players did and just pretend like it never happened" so I would appreciate if you quote what I say, and not what you gathered from it, that sir is called an assumption. "and sure i've made mistakes, and everyone does, but nothing as drastic as rape, thats a serious criminal offense"
^ You, nor I, or anyone here does not even know exactly what happened. You are going off of what the media blew out of proportion, and of course a bit of your own ignorance contributed to that. He stated it was consensual, she says it wasn't, we don't know the true story. So for you to automatically believe the more extreme of the two is immature. It was not even proven that she was raped. Rape kit and all and came to no conclusion. I'm not one to take kindly to rape or whatever you stated, think it was "serious criminal offense".
Did you know that Starlin Castro is being accused of rape? So should you remove your Cubs emblem from your postbit? Seeing as you don't support teams who have players who do so, and you "simply can't forget".
Or did you know that at Brandon Meriweather's home, someone was raped? Take off your Bears emblem too right?
How about Michael Essien being accused of rape in '09, there goes the Chelsea emblem too.
You don't support players who do so, okay, fair trade. Keep those emblems in your postbit and you are directly contradicting what you "stand for" or "believe in".
And if you are going to challenge me in saying "Well they were all accused only, wasn't found true, but Kobe's was so argument invalid"; no, it was never proven that he raped her. Both sides stated differently, and the rape kit didn't show anything. He paid a fine for the trouble's, etc; but it was never found true. If you discount Kobe's playing skill, hard work, years of talent because of being accused, don't be a hypocrite, do the same for the teams you love as well.