I am real late to this thread and I could only stomach the first four pages of responses before I stopped reading.
Racism and elitism in Calgary has always disappointed me and is one of the reasons I left. Not that there isn't any in all the other places I have lived but Calgary has a nasty strain of it.
My thanks to the people working against it. Here, and more importantly, by their actions elsewhere.
I do want to say to all the people saying a NHL boycott has no effect that I think you are wrong. It may not have much effect but it does matter.
For a moment to become a movement and then a shared belief it needs momentum or it remains just a moment.. This boycott adds to the momentum in a small way.
It's not about the amount of effect you have but the consistency in which you stand up when it is time to stand up. Sports, including the NHL and its players have chosen to use their platform now to stand up when the time is right and this was one of those times. I don't mind that the NHL was a day late. I would mind if they never stood up.
Perhaps others have said something similar. I couldn't read it all.
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