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Originally Posted by jhs5120
So you're not saying he didn't do these things, but that they were socially acceptable. I get it.
Back then it was socially acceptable to try to murder a man for intervening in your berating racist rant of another man?
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First, as the new book mentioned much of what you wrote has been debunked and Cobb is actually described as a supporter of integrating major league baseball and oftentimes a supporter of blacks. Second, your comparison of what was acceptable and deemed normal in society in 1910 is different from what existed 100 years later. To compare Ty Cobb's actions to Riley Cooper and Ray Rice and suggest that you are comparing apples to apples just makes zero sense. Are we actually having this discussion or do you not honestly see the point here? Bugs Bunny was a racist bastard too if you look at some of Warner Brothers' old cartoons.