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Donald Sterling’s remarks were bad, but what the NBA is doing is much worse

Donald Sterling’s remarks were bad, but what the NBA is doing is much worse Three years ago, I wrote in National Review: Let us accept for the sake of argument that racism is bad, that homophobia is bad, that Islamophobia is bad, that offensive utterances are bad, that mean-spirited thoughts are bad. So what? As bad as they are, the government’s criminalizing all of them and setting up an enforcement regime in the interests of micro-regulating us into compliance is a thousand times worse. . Likewise, as bad as Donald Sterling is, what the NBA is doing is a thousand… View Article