This can't be spun like Bill's some victim. He made the mistake. He looks like a dope and his detractors will jump all over it. Whether justified or not.
That said, it's not like Belichick is also being accused of discrimination.
I said I feel bad for him because people will read the headline and assume sinister wrongdoing when none is present. I didn't claim he's a victim. I said I feel bad for him.
I really want to try to be nicer to you (and in general) because being bitter all the time is a bad look and is no way to live, but you really are remarkably irritating to interact with, and you constantly needle and barb in a sort of antisocial, disruptive manner. You're just remarkably unpleasant, to put it as concisely as possible.
Try this on for size: In your reply to me, you said
"this can't be spun like Bills' some victim ...", and then literally one post later you accuse someone else of spinning what
you said. That's you in a microcosm.
As for the comment about
"not on a scale like this", why does that matter? Bill was texting a personal friend in his personal life. He texted the wrong person. What does scale have to do with it? Why should he be judged more harshly than anyone else simply because of his public stature? That doesn't seem like a logically consistent nor fair way to evaluate behavior.
At my previous job it was a predominately young crowd (myself included -- I'm 27 now and was 24-26 when I worked there); the oldest person there was in their 40s, and everyone else was in their early-20s to mid-30s. That employer was an advertising agency, meaning each employee worked across multiple client accounts. We had an email alias for each client, respectively, so we could blast 4-5+ people under a single address. One time a young woman sent a call agenda and weekly report to the wrong client alias (with similar names). It happens, it was a mistake, and everyone moved forward. No one called her a dope, no one jumped all over her. She was given a friendly reminder to double-check the email address before pressing send.
People have the ability to react to this however they wish, but that doesn't make them right. Calling Belichick a dope for a mistake everyone has made and jumping all over him for it isn't a fair or appropriate response (even though people can technically respond that way). Just because someone can react a certain way doesn't mean that reaction is appropriate.
Belichick made a genuine mistake that we have all made and I'm sure he's embarrassed and feels bad about it, just as anyone else would. That doesn't mean that the people who will lay into him for said mistake are right nor fair in their response. You choose to take an affirmative, proactive stance on certain issues, but in this case are striking a pose of, '
hey, look, he made a mistake, you can't spin this ... fair or not, people will lay into him' .... a sort of observing from afar,
'I don't make the rules, I just call 'em' type of vibe.
