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Originally Posted by Mathgod
This is not true when we're talking about marginalized & historically repressed groups. Reimer's decision did cause harm in this case. He was asked to simply wear a warm up jersey just like all of his teammates, but he decided to instead stick out like a sore thumb, and push back against something for which there is no reasonable justification for doing so. If he truly believed in inclusion for everyone, he would have wore the damn thing.
He's receiving harsh criticism, as he should. He made a bad choice and there are consequences for making such a choice. However, he's carrying on with his NHL career, and his life of extreme privilege, uninterrupted, so no he is not being "coerced" into making public statements.
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Pretty sure if I was a member of the LBGTQ community I wouldn’t give a crap if Reimer wore a warm up jersey or not. I’d pride myself on being a little mentally tougher than that. Disappointed maybe. But who really cares.
If he was out beating up people or truly discriminating against them somehow I’d say that would obviously be another story. There are laws to prevent or handle those situations.
North Americans are offended by everything these days. Fueled by the media and especially social media. We don’t have to all agree on everything. There are plenty of things that people do that I don’t understand or agree with. But if they aren’t illegal and they hurting anyone why would I care or waste my time focusing on it.