You’ve all heard about the remarks made by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling during a private phone conversation to his girlfriend, in which he told her not to post pictures with African-Americans on Instagram or bring them to games.  (If you want to read them in full, click here.)

Naturally, the entire country is losing their marbles over it, because God knows people who say offensive things should all be silenced.  LA Councilman Bernard Parks is drafting a resolution to condemn Sterling and call for “appropriate sanctions” from the NBA.  The team turned their warmup uniforms inside out before their game, hiding the Clippers logo in protest.  Various celebrities and other folks have weighed in as well.  The vote is unanimous: Donald Sterling is an awful, awful man and should feel the wrath in every way possible.  There oughta be a law or something, according to the tolerance police.  They can call you any one of a hundred filthy, disgusting, rotten things—and they do—but God forbid someone say something they don’t like.

Never one to let an opportunity to foment racial discord go to waste, Obama had some remarks of his own.  Speaking in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, he called the comments “incredibly offensive” and “racist,” adding that “when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”

Yeah, we know.  Your VP spends a lot of time in public.

I’m known for having unpopular opinions, and here goes another one.  Who cares?  Seriously—who cares that some guy with a lot of money said some stupid crap that we don’t agree with?  Bill Gates says things I don’t agree with daily.  So do a lot of people.  In fact, if I spent all my time trying to police what people say, making sure that everyone who said words or phrases or ideas that were offensive to me got their hands slapped, I wouldn’t get anything productive done.  Besides, as much as liberals—and some conservatives, sadly—hate to hear it, the guy has a right to whatever idiotic opinion he wants. If he wants to be a jackass, guess what?  He’s got a right to be that, and everyone else has the right to be mad and waste all their time “condemning” it.  Because he obviously cares so much about what others think anyway.  I didn’t even know who the guy was until all this happened, and I can’t say I care about his existence any more now that I do know who he is.  He’s just a guy, who’s obviously a jerk.

Quite frankly, that girlfriend of his is no prize either.  Shallow people, saying shallow and stupid things, and we’re surprised? We’re actually wasting time on this? We spend so much time trying to tell people they can’t say this word or can’t use that phrase, and oh, if you say that other thing in the wrong context you’re being offensive.  Get over it, people.  People say offensive things.  You don’t have to like it.  You don’t have to keep buying his stuff or supporting his team.  You don’t even have to accept what he said.  You only have to accept that he has the right to say it.

If you can honestly tell me you’ve never said anything in a private conversation that you wouldn’t like splattered all over the world…not a single joke, not a single comment, not a single, solitary thing ever that someone could point to and yell RAYCISS… then go ahead and get out those pitchforks and torches. Keep in mind, by the way, that the current belief among the Left is that just being white means you’re racist.  Have fun enforcing all that tolerance; I’ve got much better things to do.

If you don’t like what the guy said, then don’t buy Clippers tickets and merchandise.  Protest with your wallet, then move on.  Is this really the worst thing going on in this country right now?  Oh wait, I forgot…the worst thing is some rancher not paying his fees.