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Originally Posted by UKflames
I really hate this 'Go back' justice that is becoming the norm, holding todays standards to days gone by. I am all for learning from the past, being better and improving the way we speak and behave to each other but trying to get someone to lose their job for a swift kick in the ass when your playing bad (which is the accusation from Avery only, regardless of what everyone else on here says they know about Crawford) , come on that just sounds like someone with an axe to grind. Life and sports at the highest level are hard and sometimes you need a good kick in the ass to get you going in the right direction.
I guess you can all say goodbye to these lovely winning coaches that everyone wants, as it wouldn't surprise me if they hadn't all been abusive ( a definition that seems to have new things added every day) at one time or another.
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The bolded part is 1) not true, and 2) watering down the term by ridiculing it. I have yet to see a situation during this movement where it's difficult to distinguish what is abuse and what is not. It's even mentioned just about all the time that a certain level of yelling, frustration, harsh language and so on is part of the game, but it's not really that difficult for anyone within reasonable values to understand when a line is crossed.
I would rather follow a league where the players do not have to live in fear of physical or psychological violence from people that are holding great power over them. Where people in power do not throw homophobic or racial slurs around like it's nobodys business. Where a "swift kick in the ass" is regarded as crossing the line, just as it is in the rest of society. I really don't see why this would be controversial.