Posted on 09/27/2019 5:49:54 AM PDT by Third Person
Tom Brady may be the most accomplished quarterback in the history of the National Football League and boast legions of fans, but it’s safe to say that University of Rhode Island Professor Kyle Kusz is not one of them.
Kusz, an associate professor of kinesiology, argues that the New England Patriots’ star quarterback’s popularity is due to white supremacy and white male rage, and not his six Super Bowl titles, Campus Reform reports.
The article reports on a book chapter Kusz penned titled “Making American White Men Great Again: Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and the Allure of White Male Omnipotence in Post-Obama America,” in which he wrote “quarterback Tom Brady has gained popularity due to the ‘latest wave of white rage and white supremacy’ that he says developed since the Obama presidency alongside a ‘disturbing racial reaction among white conservatives in response to the idea that a black man would be [president].’”
Kusz hones in on Brady’s media appearances, such as a 2015 commercial for Under Armour, arguing the style of the ad “would not seem out of place in Leni Reifenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, ‘Triumph des willens.’”
The professor told Campus Reform:
“I decided to research Trump and Brady’s public performances of their white masculinities and how they connect with broader debates about race and gender politics after a student in one of my classes brought the UnderArmour commercial to my attention and it piqued my interest,” the professor said.
Kusz also took issue in the chapter with a Beautyrest mattress commercial in which the camera angle is pointed upward at Brady so that the “viewer is compelled to see him as superior,” as well as Brady’s partnership with “upscale companies” like UGG and Aston Martin.
“In each of these sites, Brady is figured as an unconflicted and unapologetic embodiment of upper-class white exceptionality and manly omnipotence.”
Besides his issues with Brady’s endorsement deals, Kusz pointed out that Brady usually maintains friendships with mostly white people off the field, calling the quarterback “a wealthy, white man who unapologetically enjoys, and has even made a habit out of, spending time with other wealthy white men who treasure time ‘with the boys’ over all others.”
Earlier this year, Kusz published a scholarly article in the Journal of Hate Studies titled “‘Winning Bigly’: Sporting Fantasties of White Male Omnipotence in the Rise of Trump and Alt Right White Supremacy.”
Its abstract notes the essay explored “how the Trump candidacy and presidency, the rise of the Alt Right, and the appeal of New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, to his fans who have nicknamed him as the ‘Greatest Of All Time’ (i.e. The G.O.A.T.), are all linked by 1) the lionization of a particular performance of white masculinity as omnipotent, and 2) a desire to unapologetically revitalize white male privilege and prerogative as the unquestioned norm across American culture.”
The scholar’s focus on this subject even dates back to 2010, when he authored the scholarly article “Remasculinizing American white guys in/through new millennium American sport film” in the journal Sport in Society. It argued sports movies featuring white men “is the re-centring of white masculinity in post-9/11 American culture and, by extension, refortifying white male privilege in American society,” according to its abstract.
Kusz’s faculty bio states he is author of “Revolt of The White Athlete – Intersections in Communications and Culture” and an “expert on the intersection between sport, media, and contemporary cultural politics.”
This fall he is teaching an English course at the University of Rhode Island called “On the Culture Politics of Man-Boy Narratives” in conjunction with the school’s Gender and Women’s Studies program.
No sane person is buying this crap.
That’s funny, I just thought it was because nobody can beat him and he seems like a nice guy. I just want to be represented by somebody whut looks like me.
It’s called racism. They’ve turned into what they claim to hate.
You know what really bothers me... It's the fact that an anal retentive slug like this guy (maybe that should be gay) can be a professor and is given access to our kids so he can spiel this muck in their direction..
This piece of human debris needs to be nutted and not allowed near ANY young folks, EVER.!! :(
OJ was popular until he became a cracka killer.
The lack of whites in football is the real racism. Blacks are starting to figure out they’re the peons in the situation. I would suggest to them that they give up football en masses. Whites watching blacks play a vicious game to entertain them is not a healthy scenario.
Has this dink every watched an NFL game?
When he was a boxer, Muhammad Ali was the most popular human being on the planet. How does this professor explain that?
He most likely doesn't even know who Ali was.
‘Indeed, if you remove blacks from the NFL field, only 20% of the players are left.’
if you reversed the races in those stats, the NFL would be endlessly assailed as the most evil, racist institution in history...
Black people are 90% of the world.
Black us the real supremacy.
Poor little part-time Manbunboy is confusing the post B-HO era to our preference to ALPHA males (verses beta boys and archetype ex-wife poster females).
Black Superman by Johnny Wakelin & The Kinsasha Band.
Got a lot of airplay the summer of 1975.
So far, Tom Brady has not had a Top 40 song made in his honor. I'm thinking that Luke Combs should do a Tom Brady song.
Looks like a F.A.G.
He should be charged with ‘theft’ of the air we breathe. Every time he inhales, he steals it.
‘Blacks are starting to figure out they’re the peons in the situation.’
I’ll choose to believe you’re being sarcastic with that comment...
What I’d like to see if the NFL owners ban together like the shipping industry did decades ago to present a solid front against the dock workers (stevedores). What would the players do if the owners agree than no player would be paid more than $250,000 (or whatever) per year? Most do not have any alternatives that comes close to this salary. The owners could use the same defense the Maritime Association used against the Sherman Act.
“delta-male”
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“Kusz, an associate professor of kinesiology...”
So, he studies muscles. That particular degree is usually gotten by people, such as athletes, who can’t do the rigors of a regular anatomy or bio-mechanics degree.
He then pretends that he is a sociologist/race studies expert. And then he teaches an English course. Either he is a polymath, very unlikely, or he is a looney loser who works for other loony liberals.
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