Posted on 02/14/2022 4:11:36 AM PST by RandFan
Thanks-I am angry and harbor a deep resentment.
But I am trying to channel it by getting involved in local politics, something I despise at that deepest level.
But I have to do something. Otherwise, I will just sit and stew on it without doing anything, and that isn’t healthy.
In watching the SB over many years, I can not think of one time I ever thought of race, being from Columbus, OH, it was always terrific to see Buckeyes get drafted into the NFL and excited to see them play with the pros. In the past few years, they have made me “wake” up and now I see sports through the prism of race.
Tortured by the Gazpacho: Republican Lip Slip Nails Heart of Political Divide in this Nation
I make no secret that I regard Bill Whittle as one of the most eloquent Conservative pundits on the scene today, and this video illustrates why. (By the way, don't let either the unusual title or the video thumbnail of the image of one of the Village People scare you off-they are both there for specific reasons!)
It is a 15 min video, but well worth watching from both an entertainment, educational, and ideological perspective.
ANOTHER THING THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE RUINED!
If you read my post, you will see that I specified “AT THE TIME” which was back in 2016 or thereabouts. Before that, they were not involved at the NFL corporate level of supporting or giving to things like BLM.
It has changed completely since then.
It’s telling that of the 20+ TV commercials, the ones with background music chose music from the 60’s and 70’s. None of them used cRAP.
Thank you. Your post is insightful. The left destroys.
Yes. Me too. I fully understand the NFL was not engaged in the race stupidity before the kneeling (specifically the Rooney Rule which is the height of racist stupidity) but now...they gleefully bathe in it.
I would also suggest the video (Tortured by the Gazpacho: Republican Lip Slip Nails Heart of Political Divide in this Nation) I mentioned above at post #45 because it goes to the heart of this matter as well.
Not only that we must view everything through a prism of politics, but also through a prism of race. And sex. And class.
It is what the Left does.
True ... but the mindset was there. I have a sibling that worked for the league in Manhattan for almost 30 years. They told me about the extreme left tilt several years before it surfaced publicly. They hired Joe Lockhart.
Isn’t that the truth. Every single thing they touch they turn to s**t.
The economy. Race relations. Law and Order. Immigration. The military. Freedom. And sports.
Our entire government is CORRUPT.
I know there are many things the Left has perpetrated that are far more serious and negatively impactful on my life than sports and I wholly despise them for those things, but on a personal level, their complete leftist politicization of sports, Pro Football in particular, is something I harbor a deep, and concentrated personal grudge over
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You couldn’t have said it better.
I can only add
I know there are many things the Left has perpetrated that are far more serious and negatively impactful on my life than NASCAR.
and I wholly despise them for those things, but on a personal level, their complete leftist politicization of Nascar,
, is something that turns my stomach
Giving bubba reperation lead laps, only to watch him lose control and wreck half the cars, the FBI hoax theatre after kneeling with Black Lying Marxist , and how they used Brandon Brown then dictated woke terms of his sponsor , leaves me permanently disgusted.
I tried to watch that silly l.a. colosium ‘ race’ who’s top speed was like 45 m.p.h.
After 2 laps I turned it off.
First sign of woke crap the first real race and it will be last straw time.
Oh, I don’t disagree...but like many corporations, they kept it mostly under wraps.
No more.
This pisses me off on so many levels, not just sports.
I have made major changes in my life to accommodate my unwillingness to patronize businesses that have shown their Leftist ideology was more important than my patronage.
I had a bank I used for 40 years, and put huge sums of money through them, but finally had to get my wife to agree to the process of disentangling from them due to their overt Leftism, which proved to be somewhat complicated and took us nearly six months to fully complete.
And even on a smaller level, I have used Gillette products my whole life. I won’t touch any damn thing from them now. And to a guy with face like mine, this is no minor thing on a personal level. I worked hard to find product over the years that could keep my face from turning into a mess, and once I found equilibrium, I didn’t want to change.
Point is, I am getting sick and damn tired of being forced to chase my tail, uproot myself, simply because corporations cannot keep their ideological hands inside their own trousers.
I generally didn’t care in years past, BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T ADVERTISE THEIR POLITICS AND INFLICT THEIR DECISIONS ON THEIR CUSTOMERS BECAUSE OF THOSE LEFTIST POLITICS.
Which is what the video I suggested at post #45 highlights.
We have a very good friend who played for Ohio State and was a third round pick years ago, he is now retired. We love him and have never talked race in all these years, never even thought of it. Just recently he and my husband were gently talking politics and as it turns out, he hates what has happened to the NFL, he deplores wokeism, voted for Trump, and he claims many of the black players feel the same way he does,
There is hope.
yep ... I’ll be dumping TD Bank as soon as I can confirm what they did with the truckers’ money.
You said it perfectly. Thank you.
I don’t doubt it. I know there are plenty of black players who understand the inherent poison in the Leftist politics they see that will only make their lives harder, not easier.
I am sure they are the ones that hear some other player or pundit liken professional sports to modern slavery and roll their eyes in anger thinking “I make more that nearly every other citizen in this country in a single year, and my career opens up all kinds of other opportunities for me when I stop playing...how is THAT ‘slavery’...?”
My take: Do like us Bama fans did to Saban when he went Bash Lighter Melanins on us. We made it loud and clear that we'll write him off and not support Bama as long as they blame white people for everything under the sun. If you'll notice, since then the few times he said "black lives matter" he followed it with something like "because all lives matter". We nipped it in the bud before it metastasized into a thing.
That's the way we should do with anything else the left tries to destroy. With what few good things are left in this country we should hold fast and not give the left an inch. Us giving up on the Boy Scouts didn't satisfy the left. What makes you think us giving up on anything else will satisfy them.
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