Spectator sports are popular because they are an escaped the from worldly concerns like politics.
Steep them in divisive politics and you destroy their value to spectators.
Mark is obviously not a rocket scientist.
Nobody wants to be lectured about “privilege” by a bunch of twenty year old children who have been coddled since junior high and to whom success is managing to throw a big orange ball through a ring 5 out of every 10 tries.