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Originally Posted by FanIn80
To be clear, I'm defending him nor am I even saying I believe him. I'm just fascinated by the "ignorance is no excuse" thing. Whether he did know or didn't know, the argument that he was [supposed] to know is what interests me.
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I'll reply since it was mentioned in my post -- to clarify, I wasn't speaking about ignorance of the law (I heard about the Nanaimo thing and thought it was incredibly stupid that she got a ticket, for a number of reasons). This incident, much like the Jeremy Lin incident, involved the public use of a racial slur followed by a claim that they didn't know it was offensive. Granted, being employed by ESPN to write headlines is not the same as firing off a message on your twitter account, but in either instance I don't think it's good enough to simply say "oops, didn't know it was a slur".