All the Schadenfruede over Tiger Woods seems to me to be tainted a bit with racism. Generally I think using racism is an excuse for covering your faults but in this instance the reaction to Tiger’s behaviour seems so over the top that it can’t be anything else. Of course when you are a high profile person you are going to get media attention but the moralising and hectoring tone of a lot of the coverage is ridiculous.
Nick Faldo has been married three times and been divorced three times (often on the grounds of his adultery) yet he still went on to be knighted. Admittedly he was never as high profile as Tiger, nonetheless he was and is (through his TV work) a well known figure in the golfing world. So his private life has been far more complicated than Tiger’s and although he has taken loads of stick from the media over the years, his private life tended to stay private in media terms. So what’s the difference ? Well as one wit so succinctly put it:
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan — today it’s called the PGA Tour.
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