I believe if you have a platform that attracts eyeballs and gives you the opportunity to make a statement, you should leverage it and not abandon it.
If leveraging it by sitting out, collectively, draws eyeballs to sports and its athletes and brings attention to why they are doing it then its sound reasoning in the short term.
Sitting out long term and saying nothing, to me, would be abandoning that platform. My concern would be if sports stops playing altogether, you lose the platform to make a statement.
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