I'm not a Mark Cuban fan, but he's exactly right on this one

This Green guy needs to develop the ability to distinguish between entities organized as corporations and the concept of the individual person:

Mark Cuban is taking exception to Draymond Green’s comments about team owners.

Green said last week they should be called chairmen, as not to insinuate that they own someone, in the wake of Texans owner Bob McNair’s comment that the NFL “can’t have inmates running the prison.”

Now, Cuban wants an apology.

“For him to try to turn it into something it’s not is wrong,” the Mavericks owner told ESPN. “He owes the NBA an apology. I think he does, because to try to create some connotation that owning equity in a company that you busted your ass for is the equivalent of ownership in terms of people, that’s just wrong. That’s just wrong in every which way.”

Green was one of many athletes who took to social media to express anger regarding McNair’s comment, calling it “Donald Sterling-esque” as part of a longer Instagram post.

“For starters, let’s stop using the word owner and maybe use the word Chairman,” Green wrote. “To be owned by someone just sets a bad precedent to start. It sets the wrong tone. It gives one the wrong mindset.”

Look here, Mr. Identity Politics Activist (Green), are you not able to make fairly routine distinctions? Yes, McNair's analogy was ill-conceived. He obviously came up with it off the cuff and failed to think about how those keenly attuned to the issue of incarceration rates by race (even though those so attuned might want to look at how that's a reflection of the actual rate for various crimes by race as well) might automatically take it as a "trigger." But to leap from that to a suggestion the the term "owner" be jettisoned, even though it refers to a different kind of entity from a legally-defined "person" is to get the sloppy-semantics camel's head inside the tent, leading to its infection of all kinds of situations.

This is so stupid. Anyone who owns the majority of stock in a business of any size is called the owner, on that person's business card, in reportage about that person, and in general conversation. There has to be a designated date by which we're done with trotting out the legacy-of-slavery card as an excuse to radically change the usage of our common language.

Good on ya, Mark. It will be interesting to see what kind of response you get.