dtgold88
Well-Known Member
Very well said. Almost feels like if you don't feel exactly how some do you are deemed a racist. It's OK to be outraged about these events but also feel like they might get overblown some....and not be racist or a bad person. Well, you might be a bad person, but not for those sentiments.There's probably a witty comment to be made about these NBA players literally living in a bubble right now and also metaphorically living in a bubble...
Anyway, I appreciate that they care. I'm not so jaded that I scoff at them completely and dismiss their talk of boycott out-of-hand... at least I try not to be.
But when I watch the games yesterday, and I heard sideline reporters talk about the social justice in the wake of "yet another" shooting... and then talking heads like Stan Van Gundy talk about social justice... and then various players too... and then serious talk of a boycott... and even seeing Doc Rivers (who I respect) talk about it...
... I have to admit, I was not moved. And I was kinda irked that seemingly more-and-more 'issues' and 'politics' were crammed into my face by a privileged, "bubbled" and often hypocritical (to be blunt) group of elites... during what is supposed to be entertainment time, no less.
Don't get me wrong... I totally concede that some things (many thing, in fact) are more important than sports. But if you take that train of thought and run with it... we should never do sports and never do entertainment and folks should never have any down time because there's always more important stuff to do.
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Furthermore and finally, this most recent shooting is ambiguous to say the least. It is not clear evidence of anything... yet folks clearly divine racism and more out of it... and it becomes real hard real quick to even do so little as question the prevailing narrative. I dislike that the whole thing doesn't feel like a conversation... (that's what folks say we need as a society, right?)... and more like a line that you better be on the right side of.