"Mr. Sensitivity" John Rocker weighs in on sensitivity training...

[marmar]

Report: Rocker calls sensitivity training a 'farce'
ESPN.com news services


Ozzie Guillen was ordered to attend sensitivity training for a homophobic slur he made about Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. According to John Rocker, Guillen won't get anything out of it.


"This is a free country. If he wants to use a lewd term, he should be able to use a lewd term. Can't you use a lewd term in America if you want?"
-- John Rocker on Ozzie Guillen
When Rocker was ordered to attend similar training after the former Braves reliever made offensive remarks in a Sports Illustrated story published in 1999, he left shortly after showing up, he told the Chicago Tribune.

"The guy told me when I got there I had to show up to make it look good for people, so after about 15 minutes I left and walked right out of the room and it satisfied the powers that be," Rocker told the newspaper.

Rocker was a teammate of Guillen's with the Atlanta Braves in 1998-99 and said he considers Guillen a friend. He defended Guillen's right to speak his mind.

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[MessiahRp]

1. Rocker is an asshole.

What Guillen did is worse only because he's in a position of management but Rocker hasn't learned a damn thing and his comments prove why he is out of Baseball today. He is a mental case and once his lack of stability got to his ability to throw an accurate fastball he was finished. Now if he could only disappear forever.

Rp

[Hobarticus]

2. And justly so, an unemployed asshole.

There's exercising freedom of speech, and just being an asshole.

[jakefrep]

3. Having the right to do something doesn't mean you should do it

What part of that don't these folks understand?

I'm sick and tired of people who bitch about "poltical correctness" when they are trying to justify crude, rude, and uncivil speech and behavior.

[northzax]

4. Sure, he has every right to do it

but then, the White Sox, a multiple hundred million dollar a year corporation, has the right to stop him from saying things while he represents them.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. I hate to agree with any one on something like this, but Rocker is right

Well, partly.

One can lead a horse to water, but one cannot make him drink.

John Rocker knows about sensitivity training. He knows he felt the same way about the various minority groups he offended after the training as he did before.

I hope Guillen gets some good training. That would be to acknowledge that there's nothing any one can about how feels, but he should at least express it only in appropriate company.

Like the GOP convention.