Posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Each player should have a baseline measurement taken then, if injured, be evaluated like an individual, not a racial group. Should be easy enough.
Just goes to show you that the most ardent VOCAL proponents of CRT, BLM etc. etc. are often the most racist.
They virtue signal purely for appearance and to keep the leftist progressive Nazi’s off their back but under the cloak of wokeness they are the worst kind of stereotyping bigoted malefactor’s.
Agreed. Say something that everyone already knows and get crucified for it. Just look at the facts and statistics and you will see the NFL is correct.
The Babylon bee is loosing ground because reality is becoming more crazy and funny than they can dream up.
Bell curve. It could explain a lot of things.
Most players took the Wonderlic test. That should provide something of an individual baseline, and avoid race-norming.
Oh-oh, they said the quiet part out loud again!
Is this a Babylon Bee article?
And just like that, “follow the science” became forbidden.
But wait! Maybe Shannon Sharpe used to make sense! I want to believe!
“In this house we believe in science!”I approve this message …
My 2 cents is that if they didn’t lower the standards many players who never had a head injury would still qualify. Am I missing something?
the ones who Kneel for the National Anthem prove the NLF’s thesis
Well Blacks do on average have less cognitive skills than the average of whites or other races for that matter, but when it comes to compensating an individual, using race norming as a factor in determining an award is blatantly racist.
I doubt the story is accurate. In the newsrooms of pinko publications like The New York Times, they had (may still have) the saying, "That fact is too good to check!"
Why does anyone think States are ending the use of SAT in college admissions? It is to help non-Asians and non-whites.
I'm kind of surprised the NFL doesn't have EVERY team measure cognitive abilities on an individual basis -- not by race or any other group -- to measure physical and mental changes in players over time and after their careers are over.
Their argument is that because they are starting from a lower place, their decline has to be more significant to match the decline of a white player.
They are not going to explain that away without some really bad looking optics.
I read the article and could not find where the NFL said what the headline said.
An NFL detractor (not me this time) was quoted thusly:
“Meanwhile, “The NFL's scoring algorithm asserts that black men have lower cognitive skills to begin with and has impeded the ability for former black players to attain awards from the league's settlement as they are required to score significantly lower than their white counterparts.””
This article makes me think lawyers for ex-players are attempting to publicly wrong-foot the NFL before the next shakedown - I mean, lawsuit, is heard.
My guess is the ex-players want more money.
If more money is needed, take it out of the hides of current players, or current NFL fans.
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