LA Clippers speak against Donald Trump's 'locker room talk'
Members of the LA Clippers have strongly refuted Donald Trump’s “locker room” comment, saying they have experienced nothing of the sort in their own experience.
In an attempt to excuse his boastful comments about sexually assaulting women, Donald Trump said at the second Presidential Debate that his words were just “locker room talk.” To respond, several members of the LA Clippers have expressed just how much they disagree with Trump’s excuse, and how that simply is not the case in professional locker rooms.
The Orange County Register’s Dan Woike has reported what several members of the team had to say, with Jamal Crawford expressing how scared he is in Trump’s campaign:
“Honestly, thinking about him having a chance to run our country is scary to me.”
Blake Griffin had a lot to say about how strongly he disagrees and how different this presidential race is to when Barack Obama ran for his second term against Mitt Romney:
“I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms and been on a lot of busses and been mic’d up a lot. I’ve never heard those types of things said. To just attribute it to locker room talk, it kind of gives guys who spend a lot of time in locker rooms a bad name…
“I remember having conversations but not to this extent. It’s a little different this time around; it’s pretty obvious. Whoever you’re going for, whoever you’re with or not with, this is a completely different campaign. These debates have been wild, like must-see TV.”
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Doc said that there is a lot of swearing in team locker rooms, but emphasized that there are never the kind of disturbingly sexist and quite frankly illegal comments that Trump made:
“They’re bad comments. They’re demeaning to women. I have a daughter. When people throw out that (term) ‘locker room talk,’ there’s nobody talking like that in the locker room. Is there swearing in the locker room? Every other word. But, there’s nobody demeaning people… There’s not that type of talk in anyone’s locker room.”
There’s a drastic difference between crude, sexual language and talk of sexual assault. It’s a difference that Trump shouldn’t have tried to explain so casually, especially as the footage of him making such comments showed him saying that he actually did such things.
Again, this is a serious difference from harmless joking in the locker room that many NBA players and other athletes have been quick to refute.
Griffin’s comments of how the Clippers’ locker room talk has changed so much from the last presidential race shows how troubling this years is.
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