Posted on 09/03/2020 12:08:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are we really surprised that these professional lecturers do not follow their own lessons?
Instead of a welcome release from a quarantine monotony, the return of professional sports has become a tiring lesson in patience. The NBA has been on a perpetual performance of activism and posturing for social causes, Major League Baseball has followed suit, with Black Lives Matter insignia on the fields and players kneeling for the anthem. And grudgingly the normally politics-free NHL has seen instances creeping into their league.
Not coincidentally, fan interest in the sports has waned since their return to play, and it was exacerbated last week. Following the Jacob Blake shooting, and the ensuing riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the NBA players elected to not play games for a few days, because they had not been activist enough, we presume. This led to actions taken in other leagues. The WNBA also decided to not play — and few people even noticed. An MLB game between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins had the players on the field and pausing for a moment of silence — and then they all walked off the field. Then the NHL, pressured by outside critics, elected to suspend the Stanley Cup playoffs for 2 nights.
I am still at a loss as to what this accomplished, aside from repelling fans. As I explored recently, the leagues have struggled with their ratings, at a time when everyone thought a captive COVID audience would be hungry for athletics. It is almost as if they all refuse to learn about the trap of Get Woke Go Broke having affected so many other businesses. Yet they persist in their resistance, as a league-wide meeting was held with NBA players during their downtime.
And regarding the NBA, note how I said ‘’posturing’’. This is due to a nugget of information to come out of the player meetings they recently held during their work stoppage. In speaking to the players, longtime league fixture and LA Clippers head coach Doc Rivers addressed them with a cold reality. Only 20% of the eligible players were registered to vote. With all of that activity, and all of the words of signaling outrage spoken at press conferences, 4 out of 5 players do not even cast a ballot.
What makes this all the astounding is some of the activist movements these players have been vocal about in their lecturing. LeBron James has an initiative he started, called More Than A Vote, where they want to bring in more poll workers and get out the vote initiatives in black communities. One of the demands the players called for during the work stoppage was to have team owners make their stadiums available for election polling use.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of these posturing ‘’leaders’’ cannot even be bothered to vote themselves.
This echoes another brash and brave social leader, Colin Kaepernick. After years of his grandstanding kneeling antics and disruption of the NFL, it led to drops in the ratings and the first decline in the league seen in decades. Then, in the course of his numerous insipid interviews, it was revealed that Kaepernick himself does not even vote. His claim — doing so would be hypocritical of him. Try making sense of this explanation from the bench rider:
“I’d said from the beginning I was against oppression, I was against a system of oppression. I’m not going to show support for that system. And, to me, the oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”
So he did not vote by choice because the system would not allow him to vote…
This is the kind of logic you see from the NBA. The players are pushing numerous initiatives to highlight the import of voting. As far as these same players doing so themselves — not so much. They are all proving something we have known for all this time; these athletes who were able to get a college education for free certainly got their money’s worth.
I believe there’s a high-correlation between anyone who repeats the brainless, empty slogans of the Left - and hypocrisy and low IQ
Its a perfect match for NBA players.
Bump
How many are FELONS and CAN’T VOTE?
I think I read half of Americans never vote so I suppose this is not surprising.
Waiting for the uproar that an open head coaching position with the Brooklyn Nets was filled by a white male (Steve Nash) in today’s environment with no prior coaching experience.
Whod’a thought?
Don’t vote?
Are the ballots in cursive?
Good.
There are so many people who should never cast a ballot.
Why am I not surprised?
If you don’t bother to vote then your political opinion is worthless. STFU.
They feel that with their money, notoriety, and following, they can effect change circumventing the peoples’ voice.
Of course they don’t vote, that’s for suckers.
NBA players just demand everybody do whatever they say, because they are sports gods.
Well, if you can’t read there’s no way to know which big square on the top of the ballot to put the big X in, or even to know which end of the ballot is on top.
Bet if you asked them how’re they doing they’d be stuck for an answer...
I can imagine the lack of fans will eventually get to pro athletes. The roar of the crowd and all the adulation they receive is a big part of being an athlete (besides the money.) They will figure out that they have become infamous rather than famous. It’s almost suitable punishment for being so stupid.
Voting is “acting white”, much like good grades or good grammar. Homey don’t play that tune.
Why are we complaining about them not voting??
Who do you think they would vote for?
A literacy test would stop most of them.
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