ESPN and competitors ditch their 'stick to sports' mantra. Politics is now fair game

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Sports serves as a means to channel latent nationalist sentiment in away that does not run contrary to our leftist elites. Bringing their politics out into the open can only make it easier for me to encourage other men to work out, shoot, play real sports, and learn the real skills we will need.
 
It will be interesting to see the impact on viewership. I just want to watch sports and not get lectured to by an SJW.
 
Who was it that said “Shut up and dribble?”

Social issues have long been expressed through athletes.

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Good. Everything has to be about politics and racial justice, or the thing that isn’t is enforcing racism and supporting the wrong politics. Nothing can be enjoyed for itself, only if it is a tool for progress.
 
Exactly, no one is allowed to just ignore the world around them. Everyone needs to get on board and be on the right side of history and every avenue available to spread the message needs to be used. We can’t let racists hide from their chastisement.
 
BabyWitch said:
I’m tired of people thinking that entertainment and politics are somehow separate. Sports is political. Cinema is political. Theater is political.
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There is a place for political neutrality in entertainment. Not everything need be political. A sonnet by Shakespeare, for instance. Or a Mark Rothko painting.
 
StudentMI said:
Not everything need be political.
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The rallying cry of those with abhorrent opinions seeking to hide from having to face the fact that they hold abhorrent opinions in the eyes of decent people.
 
C. S. Lewis was right on the money.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

The proper response is form our own institutions, platforms and even countries if necessary and defend them ruthlessly.
 
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StudentMI:
Not everything need be political.
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The rallying cry of those with abhorrent opinions seeking to hide from having to face the fact that they hold abhorrent opinions in the eyes of decent people.
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what abhorrent opinions? who are the “decent people?”
 
BabyWitch said:
That’s not an accurate view of art. Abstract Expressionism had a lot to do with politics, which Mark Rothko generally identified his art with. Shakespeare’s literature was also political. He loved politics and found it to be a liberating subject. It heavily influenced his works.
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Where did I say art can’t be political? Even the Divine Comedy has its political parts. However that doesn’t mean all art must be political. I myself am more a fan of New Criticism than political analysis of literature.
 
BabyWitch said:
I’m saying that art is always political, but it’s not always by design.
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I think that’s a poor view of art, to be frank. The Wallace Stevens poem An Old Philosopher in Rome, to take one example, has no political content.
 
That black lives don’t matter.

And the decent people are the ones pushing for that message to be the focus of every single public display in entertainment, work, life, and politics.
 
ConcernedAmerican said:
That black lives don’t matter.

And the decent people are the ones pushing for that message to be the focus of every single public display in entertainment, work, life, and politics.
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What if I believe that every black life, starting from its conception, greatly matters, and is a precious child of God? But I also believe Black Lives Matter is a marxist organization that should not get free publicity. Am I in the “decent group?”
 
BabyWitch said:
If you contradict the phrase “Black Lives Matter”, you are implying that you don’t actually care about today’s racial injustice.
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I have before on the forums addressed my thoughts on the phrase black lives matter. I personally think it was bound to be misinterpreted by many. I don’t understand the opposition to the phrase all lives matter. The proper response to that phrase would be “good we’re in agreement” than a reflexive “you’re a racist!” It would get people thinking.
 
Statistically speaking, blacks face more danger from intraracial violence and abortion than they do from the police. In the case of the police, we find that there was almost always more to the story in those high profile cases.
 
BabyWitch said:
When people respond with “All Lives Matter” to “Black Lives Matter”, they are actually downplaying the message that we’re trying to get across.
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I don’t believe you can mind read everyone who says all lives matter. Some people, as I’ve said, simply misunderstand the phrase black lives matter.
 
BabyWitch said:
When people respond with “All Lives Matter” to “Black Lives Matter”, they are actually downplaying the message that we’re trying to get across.
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When the organization Black Lives Matter engages in violence, condones violence, calls for violence against the police, chants “Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon”, etc., that also hurts the message too. Just sayin’
 
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