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Originally Posted by Azure
What percentage of NHL players come from Canada or Europe where these issues aren't as prevalent?
Why don't we expect the NHL to stand up for fair & democratic elections in Belarus? There are NHL players from Belarus, and it is part of the European hockey community.
The NHL is trying to expand it's presence in China. Why don't we expect the NHL to stand up against the genocide against the Uyghur's?
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I think the answer to these questions are fairly obvious: we live in Canada, and consume a massive amount of media originating in the United States. People very naturally tend to care a lot more about what is going on in their own backyards, in their own neighbourhoods and fields of vision than they do about things occurring thousands of miles away to strangers. The extremely serious issues of genocide and marginalization are tragedies, but comparing the response by people living in this country or the US to racial injustices in our own culture and then crying "foul" is pretty naive.