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July 3, 2019 - Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett
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NBA Bans the Term 'Owner'
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What would the word owner trigger within a basketball player in 2019?
I feel as though just the word owner is still connotes.
still gives that visceral reaction of one human being taking ownership of another human being.
Some teams within the NBA have decided to show how progressive and tolerant they are.
So they've stopped using the term owner to describe the owner of the team.
They're instead using terms like governor.
Let's see what the city of Cleveland thinks, home to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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A lot of teams within the NBA are recently starting to take away the term owner to describe the owner of the team.
And they're replacing it with a governor of the team.
Have you heard about this at all?
What do you think?
Uh I didn't really see it as a problem, but it seems really like progressive that it they're taking a jump.
Especially like now.
Um I could see where they're coming from.
It's definitely pretty possessive to call someone an owner.
Does that make any sense to you?
It does, I'd say, yeah, it makes sense.
What do you think?
Oh that's fine.
I mean I don't really, it's just a a word.
I feel like I get where they're coming from with like being offended by it, but at the same time, I don't see the offense in it.
It sounds as if you're trying to enslave a person, owner, so I feel it was inappropriate.
Okay, so it was inappropriate to use the word owner.
Yes.
They're just saying the word owner kind of goes back to slavery.
So we need to make sure that we aren't being owners of a team.
Does that make a lot of sense to you?
If you take it down that route that makes sense.
I I honestly would prefer owner because governor implies like well actually now I think about it.
Owner, because you can't really own people, but with governor, it's just like eliting them.
Maybe if the owner was elected, it would make more sense.
That's silly, because if you're the owner of the team, you're the owner.
If I'm an employee, I'm an employee.
Something is that.
There's a lot going on like racially in America at this moment.
So for the NBA to take away something that people really isn't sensitive about, but it is still doing it, is that's a really good sign on their behalf.
Do you agree with the notion that it's insensitive to the people of color?
I mean I'm not a person of color, so I couldn't speak on how they feel about the word, but I mean I guess if you were descendants of slave, it might kind of take imagery that you doesn't bring up fine memories.
I guess just whenever you think of someone as an owner, it definitely brings tide sort of bias of like power over somebody and definitely like I don't think me, me or anybody likes the thought of someone having like uh like full power over another person.
Isn't that what a manager is?
Yeah.
We're in a in a generation society where language is important, so I think we need to choose our words carefully and I I understand why they're doing it.
There is a political correctness that you can apply with it, but then there's emotions behind it.
So you can use a word it could trigger a raw emotion in a person.
It could touch on a sensitive nerve.
Yeah.
What word what would the word owner trigger within a basketball player in 2019?
I feel as though just the word owner is still connotes, it still um gives that this little reaction of one human being taking ownership of another human being.
I I I can see where they're coming from.
I mean it it uh I I honestly never had occurred to me before, but when it is brought up, considering the the team is entirely based off the people inside of it, and not so much the land or anything else, uh the brand, it's all about the people who are in it, then I I I can see where they're coming from.
I I would say I would agree with that.
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I've talked to a lot of people who say that it is insensitive and we have to be more appropriate and politically correct to people of color because we have to make sure their feelings are okay and you know if an NBA player is making millions of dollars do you think their feelings are hurt?
No not really shouldn't be at all.
Like you say they make millions of bucks and it's really just like pointless to me.
Like I don't know why do you think it's pointless?
Because it's like like I said before if if I'm the owner of something I'm the owner I'm not going to give a title that I'm not right kind of like the owner of a restaurant.
You don't own the people you own the brand you own the restaurant.
I guess it's so that the players can feel like they belong to an organization.
I would think it would be kind of like, who is it, the team that's owned by the city.
The Cavaliers?
Not the Cavaliers.
Shoot.
You guys are on the tip of my tongue.
Wisconsin's team.
What's Wisconsin's team?
Wisconsin Badgers, I think.
College?
College.
It is good at that.
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anything it's one word that now makes other people feel more comfortable I I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
What other words in society should we change I can't think of any right now off top of my head.
None?
Not off top my head.
How sick are you of all of this being brought up in things that shouldn't be I feel like it can be harmful because it can invalidate actual occurrences of so it's kind of getting to be a bit much do you think that we should be changing words that have no connotation to slavery in 2019 nothing about them.
Should we be changing words to appease the feelings of a few?
No.
I disagree.
Do you think we should do that with other aspects of our life?
Change words or titles that have always been used to appease people's feelings?
Or should we stick with, you know, logic?
It makes sense that he's the owner of the team.
What do we do with the rest of the things in our life?
Because this is just one aspect, right?
where we're changing titles, we're changing science, we're changing law.
logic to appease people's feelings how far do we take it again I don't think it if if it doesn't bother me and I don't think it should bother people that want to keep it as much as it probably bothers people that actually associate those words with something else so it's it's a word that it it shouldn't it doesn't matter what it's called because the job the title is still the same I guess.
Do you own your car?
I don't own my car.
Oh whose car do you have it currently owned by the bank I don't own it yet alright well uh God speed on owning your car do you own your glasses?
I guess technically you could say I own the glasses okay very interesting so you have car keys on your lap do you own your car yeah so if someone owns a team what's the difference are you equating a person with a car?
I'm talking about the team he doesn't own anybody he doesn't own any people he owns the team cars made up of just like four tires and a team's made up of people big difference.
So so what is the difference between a person and tires?
Does someone own a restaurant?
Yeah but they don't own the people inside the restaurant so someone owns a team but they don't own the people on the team I get what you're saying I I do but it's it's just different.
What word do you think would be better to use instead of owner?
Man I don't I don't care.
I mean if they want to be executive managers or I mean whatever.
I think it's a good sign of them as like a company, like being like a head, like the owner?
No, being like the head.
Like I think even governor is a odd term.
Yeah, maybe manager would be a more appropriate term for the team name, but governors have some uh history with right?
Right.
Do you think it's kind of politically correct?
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