The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy

theodp (442580) writes '"It is hard to imagine any more heinous way of earning money than by benefiting from racism," writes Rick Cohen, who argues that Donald Sterling and the NBA owners are being unjustly enriched by Sterling's racism, which led to the $2 billion sale of the L.A. Clippers to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a record-high sum for an NBA team. "Indeed, the only losers in the Sterling affair are the players," adds the NY Times. "What held promise as a possible D-Day in the N.B.A., a day when N.B.A. owners stood up to be counted and voted Donald Sterling out of the league, instead turned into a great day for the status quo." Forbes contributor Robert Wood speculates that if he plays his cards right, Sterling's windfall could be tax-free.'

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Progressivism is the current mainstream religion and we are getting closer and closer to the Holy Inquisition way of doing things.

Uh what? The only kind of inquisition-like activity going on is on behalf of the other side, the conservative side. The progressives simply don't use those tactics, although sometimes conservatives use them while claiming to be progressive.