Professional athletics, like almost every other institution in what used to be America, has been fully absorbed into the hive-mind of the Left. Thus the need to constantly virtue-signal. Give it time, Jackie Robinson will eventually be declared a god by MLB, and the stats of the Rainbow Flag softball league of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco will be added to the official records.
Jackie did more for Civil Rights than any other man. Great ballplayer and man.
“the hive-mind of the Left. Thus the need to constantly virtue-signal”
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I worked around a lot of liberals. Your comment is SPOT ON.
They believe themselves to be both intellectually and morally superior to the masses and therefore entitled, if not compelled, to constantly push their utopian agenda on everyone else.
The virtue signaling is a group palliative that soothes their personal guilt about being elitists.