I'm done with --iggers of all descriptions.

No, the first letter is not singular; there are "niggers", "wiggers", "higgers", "aiggers", "jiggers" and more.  You can figure out what the first letters mean in each case but the issue is the same: A claim of special rights, not equal rights, and further, the capacity to violate other people's rights without consequence.

CNN — 
A Black-led running group is suing the organizers of the Boston Marathon as well as the city of Newton, Massachusetts, and the Newton police chief over alleged racial discrimination that took place in a cheer zone at last year’s race.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the all-women running group TrailblazHers, just days before the 2024 marathon, alleges the organizers, the city, and police violated the plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection under the law.

Bullshit.

Read this:

TrailblazHers had organized a specific “cheer zone” in Newton at Mile 21 and had invited other running groups led by people of color to join, says the complaint. Over a hundred spectators, “mostly people of color,” were gathered there.

So you organized a racist and sexist group by its very name.  Fine -- you have the right to do that -- but don't be pissed off if someone else does it for some other group.  That's not the problem as that's called "free association" and you know it -- the problem is this:

Shortly after the incident last year, Newton police said in a statement: “After being notified by the B.A.A. (Boston Athletic Association) three times about spectators traversing the rope barrier and impeding runners, the Newton Police Department responded respectfully and repeatedly requesting that spectators stay behind the rope and not encroach onto the course,” according to CNN affiliate WFXT. “When spectators continued to cross the rope, NPD with additional officers calmly used bicycles for a short period to demarcate the course and keep both the runners and spectators safe.”

In other words these -iggers claim the right to interfere in the race by entering the course and they refused to remain behind the line demarcating the spectator areas and the course itself when cautioned and asked to do so like any civilized person would if they accidentally incurred into the course and didn't realize they had done so.

These people demanded the right to be uncivilized jackasses with more rights than the runners who paid an entry fee to race so fuck them sideways.

I'm a runner -- but not good enough to qualify for Boston.  Nonetheless I've participated in a number of very large races with corral starts and others where they're not but should be (here's looking at you, Turkey Trot in downtown Knoxville!)  Incursions into the course are serious; runners are often quite-focused on the task at hand and disrupting someone in a competitive event who has no desire to be a part of whatever you're doing is an assault that in fact can bring actual even if not-monetarily-significant harm and could reasonably cause a collision and physical injury.

That Boston Athletic Association has stomped on that intentional and knowing misbehavior is laudable.  It is my view that anyone suing over any such action should be personally destroyed -- outed, named, fired, ostracized and everyone associated with them treated to the same including being fired and blackballed and such should extend to their entire immediate family as well.

Everyone wants to claim to be some sort of special snowflake based on some sort of affiliation -- in this case, skin color.  Fuck you; you're not a special snowflake and organizing a bunch of people under such and then acting in concert makes you a fucking mob.  Cheering en-masse is welcome; hell, if even one person cheers me on (or even were they to jeer at me!) during a tough race its a part of the bargain that I have no quarrel with -- but entering the course is out-of-bounds, period and you're an uncouth bunch of apes if you think you have a right to do that and then, when rebuffed, think you have cause to sue over it.

Newton Police Chief John Carmichael addressed the lawsuit in a Friday Facebook post, saying, “I stand by my decisions that day, and more importantly, I stand by our officers who acted appropriately, respectfully and as expected.”

Yep.

Were I BAA I'd cancel the race, publish the names of the plaintiffs and their attorneys telling the public they have a problem with it take it up with those persons individually and make clear in a public statement that we're not folding to a bunch of extortionists and we never will, we're tired of this bullshit being paraded throughout society, we intend to and will make an example of these douchebags personally and that the race is herewith canceled in perpetuity until and unless the plaintiffs disgorge all of our fees and costs, including legal, refund the entry fees of every runner for the canceled race, publicly admit there was no racial bias and that their conduct merited the actions taken because they were assholes, they impeded the course and are apologizing, all in writing, and accept a criminal Trespass for each person there so if they enter the course again they can be thrown in jail for said trespass.  Oh, by the way, we're countersuing and those are our terms to settle it and what we will take all the way to trial if you refuse.

Those would be my terms.

No, not acceptable?

Tough shit and go fuck yourselves.