Golfweek cover causes furor

After Kelly Tilghman made commentary about having to beat Tiger Woods by "lynching" him in a back alley, which I have already discussed that it was taken so far out of context and turned into a good old fashioned McCarthyism, and GolfWeek, in my eyes, was saying the exact same thing in jest and almost tongue in cheek in the cover you see in this post.

It has a noose, which obviously is in reference to the comment, and it has caused a major furor among the golf community, including PGA Commisioner Tim Finchem, and some have said that GolfWeek was merely trying to do something similar to tabloid journalism.

Come on. Don't we have anything better to do than to judge who is more or less PC? Why are we making something again that we know is not what was intended in our eyes seem so? Why do we continue to raise the bar as to what can be seen or said in certain context yet turn our cheeks for others? It doesn't make sense that we get so angry about something that is implied or subjectively interpreted in the most serious manner yet things like having Demi Moore nude on Rolling Stone is "provocative" and "edgy".

Come on.

This "do as I say not as I do" type of philosophy has got to stop. We all know when something is mal intended on a racial scale, and both of these WERE NOT THAT. Let's focus on things that matter, not create witch hunts just because we can.

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