https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2014/04/29/kareem-abdul-jabbar-why-arent-we-also-outraged-that-donald-sterling-was-secretly-recorded/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 15:18:54 -0400<![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a defense of Sterling, whom he hopes loses the team, just a plenty-of-blame-to-go-around scolding &#8212; and a good one, too. Read it all. He blames Sterling for old-school bigotry, the media for ignoring Sterling&#8217;s history of racist behavior until it was served up on a silver platter last weekend, and Sterling&#8217;s girlfriend for violating his privacy by recording their conversations. That last bit is an interesting analog to the reaction among some righties after Cliven Bundy said what he said about slavery and the welfare state. Just because the man holds outre views, Bundy&#8217;s defenders argued, doesn&#8217;t mean that the feds&#8217; land-use policies are correct. Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s making the same point about Sterling&#8217;s privacy, a small rebuke to the idea that when it comes to punishing a cardinal social sin like prejudice, the ends justify the means. Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is worried about the same thing.]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:21:48 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2014/04/29/kareem-abdul-jabbar-why-arent-we-also-outraged-that-donald-sterling-was-secretly-recorded-n189410