Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
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Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#2Good. People watch sports to escape from everything else.
“Shut up and dribble” is the way to go.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#3Shoulda learned from the best guys.
Michael Jordan: "Republicans buy sneakers too."
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#4Good. People watch sports to escape from everything else. “Shut up and dribble” is the way to go.
I think its' more sinister than that. Keeping politics out of sports meant that sports were something that people could bond over. Sports could form a bridge between disparate viewpoints. Everybody talks about the growing political divide in America, but part of the problem is this compulsive desire to politicize everything has left nowhere for people with different views to feel comfortable congregating together.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#5It should be noted that the NBA is only woke with respect to the US, with China there’s no politics or social justice.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#6Good. People watch sports to escape from everything else. “Shut up and dribble” is the way to go.
I think its' more sinister than that. Keeping politics out of sports meant that sports were something that people could bond over. Sports could form a bridge between disparate viewpoints. Everybody talks about the growing political divide in America, but part of the problem is this compulsive desire to politicize everything has left nowhere for people with different views to feel comfortable congregating together.
I've found bars are filled with people willing to chat. Almost as if the political bubble is just a media driven fabrication.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think its' more sinister than that. Keeping politics out of sports meant that sports were something that people could bond over. Sports could form a bridge between disparate viewpoints. Everybody talks about the growing political divide in America, but part of the problem is this compulsive desire to politicize everything has left nowhere for people with different views to feel comfortable congregating together.
I've found bars are filled with people willing to chat. Almost as if the political bubble is just a media driven fabrication.
The bar is the last place I'd want to bring up politics in the US. Then again, I come from a red state and certainly do not match the general consensus there.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#8Good. People watch sports to escape from everything else. “Shut up and dribble” is the way to go.
I think its' more sinister than that. Keeping politics out of sports meant that sports were something that people could bond over. Sports could form a bridge between disparate viewpoints. Everybody talks about the growing political divide in America, but part of the problem is this compulsive desire to politicize everything has left nowhere for people with different views to feel comfortable congregating together.
I think the cause and effect are reversed here. People had sports as that bridge, and the country became more divided. That division has been increasing for decades. Sports came first and they weren't creating any bonding. If they had even slowed the process, they were rapidly running out of juice.
The problem with "don't politicize" is that this has a thumb on the scale of the status quo. "Politicization" means that somebody wants something done. Usually they go at it for decades until it catches some kind of national attention. At that point it's merely a tactic to say, "Well, we can't really talk about it now, because it's politicized".
I'm all for bridging divides, but not at the cost of that being an effective decision to do nothing. That's not solving problems; it's dismissing them.
Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think its' more sinister than that. Keeping politics out of sports meant that sports were something that people could bond over. Sports could form a bridge between disparate viewpoints. Everybody talks about the growing political divide in America, but part of the problem is this compulsive desire to politicize everything has left nowhere for people with different views to feel comfortable congregating together.
I think the cause and effect are reversed here. People had sports as that bridge, and the country became more divided. That division has been increasing for decades. Sports came first and they weren't creating any bonding. If they had even slowed the process, they were rapidly running out of juice. The problem with "don't politicize" is that this has a thumb on the scale of the status quo. "Politicization" means that…
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Re: Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
#10Shoulda learned from the best guys. Michael Jordan: "Republicans buy sneakers too."
The world will be a better place when people are ok being wealthy without feeling the need to make every single penny possible. Being ok with cops killing unarmed minorities so you can sell more shoes shouldn't be a defensible position. Being ok with child labor and internment camps so you can make and sell more phones shouldn't be a defensible position.
As an extremely minor example it seems like nearly every food chain starts off actually amazing and then eventually becomes crap through incremental bottom line savings that simply open up the market for a new chain to come in and all the MBAs who ruined the company can jump ship to.