I never wanted to know what any athlete’s politics might be. It is only because the Leftards try to force politics into every aspect of society that these issues arose. Now left leaning athletes (some) feel this compulsion to use their “public platform” (i.e., their renown and publicity that is based upon their ATHLETIC performance) to try to indoctrinate everyone with their views. People like Lindsey Vonn and LeBron James have no interest in any “conversation” with anyone who disagrees with them. No matter how often Leftards use terms like “national conversation” such Orwellian phrases really mean “you’d all damn well better agree with ME or else.....”
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
QUOTES AUTHORS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” -- Robert A. Heinlein