This is my shocked face.
Posted on 01/01/2022 3:41:00 PM PST by Impala64ssa
history professor at Dallas College used the Tuesday morning death of John Madden to claim the NFL coach’s hugely popular video game “dehumanizes” black athletes.
Andrew McGregor, whose research deals with “American culture, politics, race, and the history of sports,” wrote Madden’s football video game “was not a great development for the U.S.” as it “help[ed] to establish plantation cosplay” which has only “grown worse in the era of fantasy football.”
Madden, who led the Oakland Raiders’ for ten seasons which included the Super Bowl XI title and a remarkable 103-32-7 overall record, “built a digital plantation” with his post-coaching enterprise, McGregor argues:
At every point in his career — coach, announcer, video game producer — Madden profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game. He became ubiquitous and grew the NFL into the most popular game, and hastened the development of esports.
Sure, there is a lot of significance to his life and his impact. But it’s pretty clear most of his accomplishments were not beneficial or healthy for athletes, particular non-white athletes. John Madden made a life in football, one of the most violent and exploitative sports.
When your entire life is based on expanding and profiting off of one the of most violent and exploitative games, veneration is not exactly something that you deserve.
McGregor also retweeted a post which noted Madden’s game “became so synonymous with video game football” that it was taken to court over its “monopoly.” (It ended with a settlement.)
Four Christmases ago, the professor didn’t seem to think playing Madden’s game was such a big deal:
Based on the comments and reaction to his take on Madden’s business endeavor, McGregor is, in Twitter parlance, being quite “ratio’d.”
In September of 2020, McGregor ripped college football for much the same reason as the Madden game, writing that “America, after all, has a long history of exploiting Black and indigenous people of color for the pleasure and material gain of whites.” He added “Amateurism and the very structure of college athletics is caught up in the United States’ system of racial capitalism,” and that “Black athletes are embraced on the gridiron and in the community as a way to assuage white guilt.”
According to his Facebook page, McGregor is “just your neighborhood vegan liberal college professor” (see featured image). His online biography notes he “achieved moderate success” as captain of his high school track and cross country teams, and is an “unabashed booster of everything Kansas City.”
Aside from lending his name to the wildly popular video game, Madden went on to become one of the most beloved NFL sportscasters, first with CBS and then Fox Sports. His longtime booth partner Pat Summerall, an NFL player in the 1950s and early 60s, passed away in 2013.
We are ALL being dehumanized, by an oligarchy of the stupid. 'White' people have become the Jews of the 22nd century, and all the anti-white rhetoric we're hearing is paving the way to justifying genocide. Anyone who actually believes that calls for genocide against whites can't happen is delusional.
Hatred is a weed that spreads faster and farther than anything else on Earth. Cultivating hatred, which is what the left routinely do (and are instructed to do) will have dire consequences for the entire world.
It’s a tactic to create the disruption and disorder in society to bring in the Venezuela style system in the USA.
In other words Marxism and Leninism in other words Communism.
This is all very confusing.
when I was much younger there were a few football players that were of color.
I never realized that discrimination was the reason there are many more now.
Wasn’t it Electronic Arts, situated in racist Redwood, California that brought John Madden’s NFL video games to the consumer? Must be black people are so oppressed that they can’t buy and play that game either. That will have to be added to the slavery reparations list too.
“Hatred is a weed that spreads faster and farther than anything else on Earth.”
I have said that money is the fertilizer of evil.
I wonder could they go together somehow ?
This is my shocked face.
I’ve stated that parents would probably be better off sending their kids to vocational schools. At least they learn stuff that can actually help them get jobs, and there’s no pothead pinko professors trying to force G*d know what kind of crap into their heads.
Grown black men who spend their lives playing stick and ball gammes “dehumanize” themselves. Playing little boys games is not something grownups should be doing. IMHO.
How this guy sees himself.
You mean those million dollar plus paid athletes?
I used to love playing that game (until they changed it up too much).
maybe we should make a law...no non whites to play sports, you know, to prevent the terrible terrible carnage that the black athletes struggle with every single day...
So what is to be done? Ban black players from the NFL so they aren’t exploited? It’s a white man’s game, after all, derived from rugby and popularized in overwhelmingly white universities.
Baseball be very very good to me
Sports have become used for equity in the economy. Without football, baseball, boxing, and basketball there would be thousands less black millionaires in this country.
Typical liberal pants wetting jackasses. This one should keep his mouth shut... The Madden games are good... And in it, you can make Jacksonville win!! 🤓
Peter Griffin is smarter than that professor!! 🤓
That how baseball go….
I remember long ago, back in the 60’s Nipsey Russell quipped about how, at least back then nothing improves race relations like football. Where else can the whole country watch a Black guy chase down and tackle a White guy while millions of Whites cheer him on?🙂🙂. But that’s not good enough for the perpetually offended woketards.
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