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Originally Posted by GS Skier
"Hockey has a track record of putting issues as important as this one on the back burner, till they are confronted by the masses. "
I actually take umbrage at that statement. Says who? You?
CG12 Who are the "masses" you speak off. 25 year olds in mobs who think they are the first to deal with the racism problem. All you and your ilk do is virtue signal and bully others into accepting your virtue signalling. How many actual east indian, muslim, native or black friends do you have? Maybe you do! That's all you can do is make sure YOU aren't a racist. Only you can prevent forest fires and only you can treat everyone as people not races.
My friends Ziad, Rufus and Jag never bring it up. Want to see pics of the block party we had 3 weeks ago?
You might as well protest drug addiction.
When any of the 84 US policemen who've died in the line of duty so far this year were killed, did Pro Sports to come to a stand still? No? Why not? How many people have been shot to death in Chicago this year? Virtue signalling does NOT stop racists from being racist.
My real point needs to be remade.
1968 Mexico City 2 black amaerican atheletes gave a Black Panther salute. The IOC banded all such political activity with penalties such as disqualification in the next Olympics..
When Patton won at the academy awards a first nations girl came up instead and made a political speech. This kept on for a few years until they said enough was enough.
Pro sports will suffer and lose yet more viewers the more political they get. I have zero interest in the NFL couldn't care less anymore.
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No that isn't all you can do. The fact that you think it's all you can do is part of the problem.
There's also a false equivalency here that makes me revolted everytime I hear/ read it. 84 us police officers have died- in the line of duty. Those police officers made a conscious choice to "protect and serve." At one point that actually meant putting oneself in harms way so that others wouldn't have to come to harm: that in fact was what made the image of them as heroic possible.
Thats not the reality of how they act. And your point here proves thats not how some in society seem to see them either. The deaths of police in the line of duty is not at all equivalent or comparable to the murder of black civilians by police officers.
The viewers that will be lost by this act don't deserve to be entertained by these athletes. If you count yourself among them I pity your shallow soul.