I have wondered the same thing as @BLING. Do regular people even know about CRT? I actually brought up CRT in one of my courses this semester. It’s a course investigating how we know what we know, and I asked how should we decide what topics should go into textbooks. Climate change? Creationism? CRT? Surprisingly, none of the 20 students had ever heard of CRT. I would think current college students in Florida would be among the most aquatinted with this idea, but my biology students at least had no recognition of the term.
That is cynical, and like most cynical approaches, it largely misses the mark. I say "largely" because there's always a minority with an opposing view who are equally cynical.
The disagrees have their own truth. It’s ok. I’m fine with the “disagrees”. I wish there was more thoughtful responses other than insults. Can hope.
You seem a little angry. Take it easy my friend. I find irony in the people who were all for politics, protests, social commentary in sports just a few years ago and are now posting that it should be kept out of their sports… I didn’t make a statement about the actual ad, I didn’t see it. But I have long said that sports should be free of all that junk .As should most forms of entertainment. And many here have voiced their dissenting opinion only to want THIS ad out of sports..
This is a great post. When a cop pulls over a black guy who was driving with a busted tail light and ends up putting 14 bullets into the black guy’s back, CRT assumes that it was because the guy was black when we should be asking why did he have a busted tail light.
I don't need to "assume" racism is present in our society. I know for a fact it is. A Neo-Nazi just murdered Black people for being Black in my hometown last month. Keep telling yourself racism no longer exists and that all the folks who think otherwise are the delusional ones.
A sports coach I know recently helped a stranger at a gas station with a flat tire problem and before he could leave he overheard a white guy tell her that she shouldn't be letting any n-word help her. So yeah, screw the people who insist on trying to push racism into the dustbin of history when it is still flourishing in this country.
Hell, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina all got smacked down by the courts for engaging in racist gerrymanders. But the people who think racism is still around, still impacting our society, and still causing problems are the "delusional" ones? Uh huh, sure. Red pill guy can go party with his other red pilled friends.
I assume you are referring to athletes kneeling during the anthem in protest. If not, please clarify. At any rate, protests on social issues, political ads, and propaganda (exactly what this ad is) are not a monolith. Nobody paid to include their kneeling protest on the broadcast and that's just one diff.
But NO difference as the viewer. I don’t want it, don’t need it and am turned off by it. And THAT was my point. The same people who now claim we shouldn’t have these things in sports ( a political ad they DONT AGREE with) we’re fine with it when they DO agree with it. I (and others like me) don’t want any of it at all. Whether kneeling at games ( Football players/women’s soccer , etc.. on sportcenter (blm, protest, etc,) or ads during games - sports is entertainment, a chance to escape from the drudgery of our lives, a chance to cheer and celebrate. The last thing we want is politics, social commenting, social protest. Just like those complaining now don’t want it during their football games. Notice I never commented on those that don’t like the ad.. that’s fine I don’t care. I probably wouldn’t have either.. but commented on those that don’t want the ad they don’t like interrupting their football time.
Certainly racism exists. The relevant questions are: 1. What do you mean by racism? 2. How pervasive are all of the instances you believe constitute racism on a societal level? 3. How do you know your answer to #2 is actually true and not the result of your own biases and prejudices or the biases or prejudices of others? 4. Does racism as you have defined it even constitute a morally significant category?
@gator_lawyer racism existing is not some magic wand that makes every accusation of racism automatically true. What is your proof of post #14?
