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Running racism in America thread

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

  1. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    So we're supposed to respect this racist piece of shit soccer player's opinion?.

    Maybe getting kicked off the team was a little drastic, but maybe some mandatory diversity training was in order.
     
  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Racist 20 year old piece of shit soccer player that didn’t say what you thought she said.
    She said she supported Black Lives Matter but not the BLM organization. How is she a piece of shit. And did anyone write that the players at Oral Robert’s and Liberty are pieces of shit for their homophobia?
     
  3. Fred siegle

    Fred siegle Well-Known Member

    I can’t think of anything more annoying on this site than a debate between these two guys.
     
  4. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Her beliefs on the BLM organization are based on right wing lies.

    I don't recall any athletes at those schools being particularly vocal about homophobia. But I don't take too kindly to anyone who would be particularly outspoken about those beliefs.
     
  6. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Thing is, there’s about 6-7 people that could be about. And I have no idea who.
     
  7. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    If her coach really castigated her for not joining her teammates, that's an issue.

    If she was merely alienated from her teammates because her beliefs stood in opposition to theirs, that's just life.
     
  8. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  9. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    By attending Oral Robert’s or Liberty you are signing up for Rightwing christians Extremism. Even Notre Dame is a homophobic, misogynistic anti-egalitarian institution. When you go there you support their policies.
    would it be ‘just life’ if she were the one person to kneel?
     
  10. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    Different situation, actually. If you, as a educational organization or a professional athletic league, isolate the one person calling for racial justice you're racist. Racists cannot win or we are all lost. But if her coach actually did what she's saying, he should be fired. Even if she is a racist. Which she is.

    Edit: But actually, if you were the only player on a team interested in kneeling, and you're not Colin Kaepernick because it's 2021, but there was no overt discrimination thrown your way, you would probably find yourself isolated and would transfer. That's life. But if your coach in that situation did what this person is alleging hers did, then that coach should be fired.
     
    Last edited: Apr 25, 2021
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  11. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  12. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

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