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All around me I hear people rooting for the Cavaliers, and I want to puke. Is it just me?
I put into the Google News search box, "cavaliers domestic violence video" and this is the top hit, from May 11, 2015:
http://www.technologytell.com/entertainment/61855/the-other-problem-with-the-cavs-domestic-violence-video/
Then there's this, also from May 11:
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/11/report-cavaliers-not-firing-anyone-over-video/
The video aired on the jumbotron during a Bulls-Cavs game on May 6, 2015.
FIVE DAYS. Based on Google News, that's about all we (the larger "we" even gave a damn about this.
To its credit, RH Reality Check (not exactly MSM) contributed this excellent piece on May 14:
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/05/14/cleveland-cavaliers-video-domestic-violence-wasnt-mistake/
After it was roundly condemned on Twitter and across the web, the Cavaliers released a statement the next day that read in part:
But in order for this video to get made, someone had to think of the concept. The set had to be created, actors cast, parts learned. Visual had to be filmed, the entire thing had to be edited down, and graphics and voiceover had to be added. To say that it was simply a mistake is to downplay and nearly erase the amount of approval that had to happen for that video to get made. It did not whoops! into existence.
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The night the Cavs showed the video in the arena, statistics tell us that the odds were high that a woman was sitting next to her abuser, their shoulders or knees probably touching. We can imagine her turning her eyes to the Humongotron upon hearing the first bars of Ive Had The Time of My Life. Then she would have seen a scene unfold onscreen that probably would have caused her back to stiffen, shifting away from her partner as she recognized too well the dynamic she was seeing. And then she would have had to watch and listen to the people around her laugh and perhaps even cheer the satisfied smirk of the man at the end of the video as he said, Go Cavs.
Then she might have looked over at her partner, her abuser, and seen him, a dedicated Cavaliers fan, enjoying that video. He, too would have recognized the dynamicbut for him, the message he received would have been Yeah boy!, with a double thumbs-up from the Cavs. Neither one would have thought they were looking at a mistake.
Maybe the Cavs win the NBA title. To be fair, it wasn't the players that conceived, produced, approved, and aired that video. But they belong to an organization that did.
And I don't know how anyone who cares about domestic violence can root for that organization to win anything.
Is it just me?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I'm more concerned about our guys choking to what is essentially a one-man team at this point.
Ok guess I got my answer.
That's what I thought.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)They apologized for it.
Now you want people to root against them in a basketball series.
Because of the video.
I don't know if it's "just you," but it might be pretty close.