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Originally Posted by kipperiggy
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.
As a queer person this makes me feel less welcome as an NHL fan with the number of people on social media that are celebrating this move. How sad how far we have to go in 2023.
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You should feel welcome as an NHL fan, as a member on CP and in the community. I'd have a beer with you and talk hockey. This isn't black and white when it comes to these specific things for everybody., even within the community. People within the LGBTQ community openly talk about. Straight people don't agree on the same issues all the time. Forget social media at the same time, people don't have the guts to say the same things in person.
Where the NHL made the decision to go is a reflection of the challenges that we are faced as a society, a society where we are openly discussing everything all the time. People don't agree. They are trying to avoid a situation where they are cornered and have to make even more unpopular decisions.
I used the example before about other minority players and players of faiths that aren't as tolerant as some. It's a valid question. For all intensive purposes **** the white Canadian hockey players, we are trying to grow the game with other people in the community. Hockey is for everybody they say.
How do we deal with people who want to extract maximum punishment on an NHL player of a minority group, should they be punished? Is a minority NHL player who quietly and respectfully doesn't wear a Pride jersey for their particular reasons in the same category as someone who is spewing their hate in the media and online? Do we deal with them the same way?
I'll admit, I don't have the answers. Perhaps as you say, I don't know what I am talking about and that's fine. I don't think a lot of people have the proper answers either and that's ok. I am not big into corporations doing all these causes all the time these days, and that goes across the board for a ton of causes. I don't like being pacified and bull ****ted but that's me cause I see the hypocrisy in it, other's soak it all up.
I do really mean it though when I say you should feel welcomed in hockey, on CP and more. It's a community and people agree and disagree and that's fine.