The Sweater

Issues & Insights ^ | 21 Mar 2023 | I&I Ed Board

[Rummyfan]

couple of National Hockey League players have refused to be bullied into wearing pride jerseys during pregame warmups and much of the response has been madness – and worse. It’s another sign that Western culture is in a steep decline.

In 1980’s “The Sweater,” an animated short that gets its title from the traditional term for a hockey jersey in Canada, a boy in Quebec accidentally receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey rather than the Montreal Canadiens No. 9 Maurice Richard jersey that his mother had ordered, and the jersey all his friends wear. As a Quebecois, he is humiliated by the Toronto jersey and benched by his coach. The peer pressure he feels to fit in is enormous.

Now in the 2020s, the pressure from radical activists and the corporate cowards who take a knee to them at every opportunity is on players to wear jerseys during warmups that celebrate the ​​LGBTQIA+ community.

But even in 2023, when so many among us are either part of the social bullying culture or so fearful of it that we’ve surrendered to it, there are still men of strength and principle. On Jan. 17, Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov declined to wear a pride jersey in warmups, citing his Christian (Russian Orthodox) beliefs. So he sat in the locker room, banished, while his teammates took their pre-game skate.

[Rummyfan]

“Imagine, though, the uproar from the political left if players wore warmup jerseys with Christian and Jewish symbols, or Joseph Smith Church of the Latter Day Saints jerseys. It’s a minor miracle that Antifa and other violent extremists haven’t crashed teams’ military appreciation nights.

“Western culture has come to be dominated by bullies who are ever eager to force conformity on others and to validate their status as ‘the elite.’

[FlingWingFlyer]

Since hockey is the only sport I care about anymore I sure wish they wouldn’t wreck the sport by using it to pimp sexual deviancy and child molestation.

[PGR88]

a boy in Quebec accidentally receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey rather than the Montreal Canadiens No. 9 Maurice Richard jersey that his mother had ordered, and the jersey all his friends wear. As a Quebecois, he is humiliated by the Toronto jersey and benched by his coach. The peer pressure he feels to fit in is enormous.

We know its fiction, because such a thing occuring is simply impossible.

[RoosterRedux]

Western culture isn't in decline. It's just that a big chunk of our population has gone bat-guano crazy.

A little mass deprogramming would do the trick.

But the leaders of the radical Left on the other hand...those folks are full-blown Marxist-Leninists and are planning a coup.

They aren't the least bit insane. They just want to take over the country and install a dictatorship with themselves in charge. They're no crazier than a bunch of common thieves who think big...really big.

[bicyclerepair]

Followed the Bruins as a kid. Bobby Orr days.

Then parents dragged us to S. FL. No hockey until the Panthers started. My daughter and I watched almost every game for decades.

She got us tickets for early 2020. All excited to go and her husband’s first NHL game. She wrapped the tickets specially in multiple packages. She was so happy to get us those tickets.

Then the scamdemic cancelled her Christmas present to me (game was cancelled she got refunded).
Then I see the mascot in commercials for the jab.
Then that thing in Ft. Lauderdale that DeSantis stopped that the nhl was recruiting all but whites.
Then I thought about the home jersies that I gave them a pass for.

4 Strikes. That’s it. Hockey (the only sport I ever cared about) is dead to me.