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Running racism in America thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, May 26, 2020.

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  1. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    qtlaw, Apr 15, 2021
    #4609
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  2. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Funny, you see that stuff more the further away you get from the places hit on 9/11, the places where people came out in droves to help everyone affected by 9/11.
     
    wicked, Apr 15, 2021
    #4610
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  3. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    Faux patriotism is easy, and rotten.


    I wish the pro leagues would quit taking the military money and glorifying it so much.
     
    Mngwa, Apr 15, 2021
    #4611
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  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Yeah I don't get - renaming french fries freedom fries and standing for the anthem is a mark of a "patriot." But actually sacrificing - if its even that much of a sacrifice - of wearing a mask is a bridge too far.
     
    DanOregon, Apr 15, 2021
    #4612
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  5. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Did they cheer when a larcenous draft-dodger demeaned a POW?
     
    garrow, Apr 15, 2021
    #4613
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I don't know exactly how much money changes hands between the military and the pro sports leagues (it should be 0, even though I am sure it isn't quite nothing), but I'd guess that in the context of the billions of dollars those leagues see in revenues in the typical year, money from the U.S. government is miniscule, and the leagues don't do the faux patriotism for a paycheck. They do it to pander to their fans, who eat it up as entertainment. The military and football, for example, are two peas in a pod. ... Milartistic themes, men in uniform doing battle, trying to gain field position, etc. This is America.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 15, 2021
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  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    When I went to the Key Biscayne tennis tournament in March 2003, which started just as the Iraq war started, fans would boo whenever a player from France was introduced.
     
    BTExpress, Apr 15, 2021
    #4615
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    But yeah, keep politics out of sports....
     
    DanOregon, Apr 15, 2021
    #4616
  9. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    Scout, Apr 15, 2021
    #4617
  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Sampras probably kept losing at Roland Garros on purpose.
     
    Songbird, Apr 15, 2021
    #4618
  11. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    I thought MGWA was talking about military profiteering.
     
    OscarMadison, Apr 15, 2021
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  12. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    To be fair, I used to boo Geoff Bodine because he was from New York.
    Brett and Todd weren't worthy of a boo.
     
    Driftwood, Apr 15, 2021
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