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Originally Posted by AC
https://twitter.com/user/status/1298834413854355460
Harsh words from Aliu for what amounts to an empty gesture regardless IMO. Does cancelling NHL games send a message that lands for anyone? I obviously get the outrage to the injustices, but I guess I don't get what cancelling professional sports actually accomplishes. To me, regardless of what is done these all come across as the current version of posting "thoughts and prayers" as a social media status.
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Interesting that pretty much everyone glossed over Akim Aliu's response to Carter. Completely idiotic and unfair. And the type of vitriol that derails movements that initially start with good intentions. There's definitely an aspect of the messaging that seems to be spilling over into zealotry. I can't believe he even pulled out the old "with us or against us" line. No room for independent and carefully considered thought, and people like Aliu thinking they get to claim ownership of the right way of looking at things.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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