I get that but to just realize now that politics are showing up in sporting events takes an incredible level of willful blindness. It's like the last scene in Field of Dreams where the bother in law realizes there are baseball players on the field.
It’s a valid thought. I am not sure about it, but looking at your list, Id imagine that most would agree with some and not others. Or even understand meaning of all the tenets. In a couple weeks, we will investigate the social nature of knowledge, so I will hopefully get a sense of how they think knowledge relates to identity.
You are assuming politics has only been injected into sports in the past 2-3 years? Did you consider that’s a faulty assumption!? There is a long history of politics in sport from the Berlin Olympiad to Mohammed Ali. It has also always apparent the “shut up and play” folks were actually ok with certain types of politics (or religion) in sports provided it fits whatever their worldview is (and this isn’t even unique to the U.S. extreme right, look what China and Iran do to their athletes who step out of line). Of course that has to do with the athletes themselves and what opinions they may wish to express - something they are supposed to be able to do in this country. I don’t think it’s unusual to see political ads with candidates trying to get votes, particularly during campaign season. Obviously that happens every election nowadays. This ad is a bit different because it strikes more as a strange sort of political propaganda rather than marketing for a particular candidate. It seems the money behind the ad is dark money that funds an array of right wing candidates and has dozens of political LLC’s. The other obvious issue with the ad is that it’s false. It argues against CRT, but the example given isn’t anything to do with CRT. They couldn’t even bother giving us a proper example to get concerned with? It just strikes me as strange and disingenuous.
Do you have anything to say about the ad? And no, my refrain is not hypocritical, as it does not correlate with the last 3+ years of having politics injected into sports (false equiv).
My take has more to do with the ad itself. Perhaps I should have somehow made that more clear, but some of y'all insist upon ignoring the content of the ad.
I could not care less about the content of the ad. The point is it is a political message you dislike and do not want to see it during a sporting event. Do you not get how that is hypocritical after the last three years of politics being injected into sports? Apparently not since I have had to ask twice.
So now you are getting upset because there is false information in political ads? Wait until you find out there is gambling in casinos. The level of politics purposefully injected in to athletics around 2020 was higher than anything I have seen in my lifetime. Athletes have a right to express their opinions but the fans can also express theirs in return. The NFL got that and there is a reason they have worked hard to get politics out of their product.
The ad itself is not the point and pretending it is shows a staggering level of willful blindness to what this argument is actually about.
If you believe in CRT, then it is black people….with the right ideology, called critical consciousness. Hence the guy in the OP telling his daughter that she can do whatever she wants to do doesn’t count.
Reminds me of a debate i had with a good buddy on the 2016 election. He said Biden was “a marxist”. I asked him if he knew what a marxist was and he replied, “No, but it doesn’t sound good!”. These folks folks crack me up.
It was clearly in regards to my comment to O and B and his complaint right above my original Post about irony. Had nothing to do with your OP. I’ve got zero issue with anyone not liking the AD. Like I said I never saw and haven’t commented on those that don’t like it. Just find it funny that certain outspoken posters who belittled and put down others for not wanting this stuff in sports is NoW taking the same stance. Hmmm I wonder why.
Don't ask me I am simply replying to the lawyer who makes everything about racism. You know, the guy that always accuses me of being the boards biggest racist even though I don't comment on racial issues until someone else makes threads racial. See who first mentioned race in this thread.
Would not shock me if that poster is working for a left leaning non profit that is focused on DEI stuff. Reading his posts is like reading their press releases.
Then go comment on another thread. This thread is about the content of the ad. Wrong. You don't get to choose my point. No, I don't.
