NBA legend under fire for Cyberbullying

[Mistame]

Cyberbullying, like any other bullying CAN be... but I would posit its usually problematic for teens and younger who have fragile egos and underdeveloped abilities to reason/cope, not for professional grown-ass athletes. And again, T'nace's article doesn't actually show any evidence of bullying anyway.

This, along with how loose the term "bullying" has become. If you're a grown-ass adult and you think you're being "cyberbullied", you're doing it wrong.

[Felya]

It can be a problem, but it isn't a serious. We shouldn't devote resources to fixing Cyberbullying while ACTUAL bullying is going on

When two grown man... I mean GROWN man, making millions of dollars, can bully until their mom has to step in... the remarkable thing isn't the bullying...

[Fincayra]

http://www.espnsa.com/javale-mcgee-s...y-twitter-war/

sauce on the actual tweets. If any of that actually counts as "bullying," idk what fucking world I live in now.

[Shaqthefat]

When two grown man... I mean GROWN man, making millions of dollars, can bully until their mom has to step in... the remarkable thing isn't the bullying...

Exactly

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[Ayirasi]

This sort of troubling behavior needs to stop. Save us, Melania!

[Kapadons]

Shaq made videos highlighting Javale's mistakes on a basketball court. Javale talked smack to shaq, calling him a coon and old bastard. Shaq called him a bum and said he would smack Javale. Javale said shaq wasn't gonna do shit.

1st, this happened like a week ago. You are late to the party.

2nd, none of this is cyber bullying. 2 dudes talking shit on twitter

3rd, as a professional in a prominent public job, criticism is 100% fair game and has been determined as such by law. So Shaqtin a fool and the Dr Strange clip are 100% fair game.

4th, hundreds of other players have been showcased on shaqtin a fool, including Shaq himself, as well as the others on the show with him. Which indicates a morally acceptable form of criticism. No one else has cried about it like Javale. It's also always making fun of his actual play and not him as a person. And it's clearly done in jest with laughter abound. Not a hint of malice.

Javale was 100% in the wrong.

Edit - Shaqs mother makes a very good point. It's not like Shaq is the one scouring the NBA games for clips to add to shaqtin a fool. He isn't putting the clips together and producing them for airtime. That's a production crew and show runner wanting to run those segments. And all 4 of the guys on camera make comments and jokes and laugh about it. To single out Shaq as the one picking on her son (not the twitter stuff, but the actual Shaqtin a fool and Dr Stange clip) is prett ridiculous of Ms McGee

[Cosmic Janitor]

How to get never taken seriously in your sport: Let your momma talk for you.

[Deleted]

Does cyber-bullying make cyber boo-boos?

[Deleted]

Maybe McGee's mom should just take his internet from him. Problem solved.

[Zoibert the Bear]

No. Bullying is serious.

A FWP is complaining your coffee isn't dark roast or your salad doesn't have the right dressing.

It isn't. War and hunger are serious. (Adult? lol) bullying is an unfortunate side effect of poor parenting and lack of self esteem.

They are grown adults bringing their mothers in, for fucks sake.

[Sevarin]

http://www.espnsa.com/javale-mcgee-s...y-twitter-war/

sauce on the actual tweets. If any of that actually counts as "bullying," idk what fucking world I live in now.

good lord. ive seen 10 year olds with better grammar than them.

by the looks of it, if one does for some moronic reason get in trouble, so should the other. javale seems like more of a douche in those. its not "cyberbullying" if youre throwing back insults that are just as bad or worse.

[Deleted]

Cyberbullying... Between adults...?!

And his mama is involved?

[Tennis]

good lord. ive seen 10 year olds with better grammar than them.

by the looks of it, if one does for some moronic reason get in trouble, so should the other. javale seems like more of a douche in those. its not "cyberbullying" if youre throwing back insults that are just as bad or worse.

Yeah because twiter is where people speak with proper grammar? How racist.

[ghotihook]

Yeah because twiter is where people speak with proper grammar? How racist.

WTF are you talking about? He said their grammar is awful. How the hell do you get racist out of it?

[ItachiZaku]

I think their mom's should throw hands to solve this one.

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ive seen 10 year olds with better grammar than them.

It's twitterspeak and they are dumb jocks who never had to go to class.

[Mad_Murdock]

Do you agree? Is this cyberbullying or something else?
Should Shaq lose his job for this?

JaVale McGee is 29 years old and has a estimated worth of 32+ million. That is way too old and rich to need momma to step in and say "stop picking on my baby". If he was 20 or younger I could see it being a bit of a bullying issue. All I see is mostly O'neil doing is trash talking, which is what ballers do. For a net worth of 32 million, You guys can shit talk about my lack of skill all you want

[noidentity]

WTF are you talking about? He said their grammar is awful. How the hell do you get racist out of it?

Tennisbait is just showing how racist he really is.

[unfilteredJW]

WTF are you talking about? He said their grammar is awful. How the hell do you get racist out of it?

It's the point in the thread where they have been shown how utterly moronic their crusade du jour is and just starts in the with the silly.

[Beazy]

No. Bullying is serious.

A FWP is complaining your coffee isn't dark roast or your salad doesn't have the right dressing.

Honestly man, I feel sorry for your mother. I mean that.

[Lynarii]

Cyberbullying can be a very serious thing. There's been a few people up here who have died as a result of it (though, those incidents were pretty extreme. Like 'teenage girl gets gang raped, and the guys who did it took photos and spread them around, asking other people to form groups to attempt to kidnap and rape her as well' kind of extreme)

But what makes bullying a bad thing is that it is attacking someone with no reasonable way to defend themselves. Poking fun at a multi-million dollar basketball player hardly applies. If McGee was legitimately harmed by Shaq's actions, he has /plenty/ of options to defend himself and gain redress. It's that whole 'legitimately harmed' part that doesn't appear to have happened.