More games being cancelled

[brooklynite]

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[dhill926]

1. good...keep it going....

this shit has got to stop....

[regnaD kciN]

4. The symbolism here is important...

The G.O.P. obviously wants to frame this as another case of normal Americans under attack by "BLM thugs" and "Antifa hordes." It's a bit harder to frame it that way when your sports heroes are standing in solidarity with the demonstrators.

[crickets]

6. 👆👆

[Dream Girl]

9. "Sonnabitches" to quote 45

[smirkymonkey]

27. +1000

[Dustlawyer]

15. +1!!!

[ecstatic]

20. +1000. nt

[mitch96]

2. I always wondered if sportsmen and women of color protested and stopped playing

What would a poor o'l redneck white boy to do? What would he watch... Polo? NASCAR? Golf?

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[dalton99a]

11. He can watch his father fuck his sister

[Hmongliberal]

18. Or he could watch

His pastor father who’s watching his wife getting trucked by the pool boy.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Yes, because the fans

of the games are directly responsible for trigger-happy cops.

[EarnestPutz]

17. American society, which has done almost nothing about police violence (trigger happy cops) because..

....we are distracted by "circuses" (television sports) ARE directly responsible. The Roman dictators gave the masses "bread and circuses" to distract the masses from what their leaders were doing. The NBA is our circus. The black folk who entertain us in these games have a kinship with many of the victims of police brutality. The "fans" should be made to recognize their civic responsibilities and not some right to entertained.

[ecstatic]

21. Exactly! Nt

[EarnestPutz]

23. Thank you.

[JI7]

24. And American people vote for people who make laws and themselves call cops on BS

[customerserviceguy]

25. Those same fans

have been giving educational and economic opportunity to people of color by paying to watch those sports. If they really want to kill that goose laying the golden egg, see how that works out.

I don't watch any basketball, I'm a baseball and football fan, but maybe you'd feel like I do if it were some entertainment that you follow that got cancelled. Maybe Hollywood should stop making movies and TV shows, those are "circuses", too.

[ecstatic]

26. That's ridiculous. nt

[customerserviceguy]

28. Movies, TV and sports

they're all entertainment. And the person I was responding to said that sports distracts us from social issues. My thesis is that if sports do that, so do other forms of entertainment.

[ecstatic]

31. Fair enough. nt

[EarnestPutz]

39. They do distract us from these issues, that's the purpose of a "circus" in this context.

You're right but corporate America isn't going to take much notice if a few black ballerinas "take a knee" before the ballet.-

[EarnestPutz]

32. Maybe I should have said "the NBA is one of our circuses". No, I absolutely would not feel as....

....you do if something that I find entertaining was cancelled because the athletes had a greater sense of civic responsibility than we, as a whole, seem to have. We do not have a right to be entertained. Criticizing them is just selfish.

[JonLP24]

35. I'm a basketball fan and most NBA fans support the players

I think a lot of athletes realize with so much discrimination in society sports or entertainment is one of the few ways they can make it without being discriminated against. Even sports have discrimination -- Look up black coaches.

[notinkansas]

37. Touche!

[EarnestPutz]

38. Thank you. I think it was Charles Barkley who said "I ain't your monkey".

[JonLP24]

34. Speak for yourself

I'm a fan of these games and I support the players message. I'm tired of conservatives telling me as a sports fan what I want to see from my sports. Go Raptors!`

[crickets]

5. Way to go Dodgers and Giants! WTG, ML Soccer and WNBA! nt

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Josh Hader, pitcher with the Milwaukee Brewers. . .

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". . .It's more than sports. . .This is a time where we need to really not stay quiet. . ."

Reminder, this was a player who got called out in 2018 over homophobic tweets he sent back when he was a teenager. Glad to know he learned and matured since then.

[iluvtennis]

8. Great news. Now, let's hope the lost of revenue from TV and advertisers pushes the owners of

the team to do something. As they are losing $$$, maybe the owners can network with the local politicians and pass legislation to reform policing in communities of color.

They need increased training in de-escalation, they need to get mental health professionals to be part of the team that responds to domestic related calls, they need to hire folks from the communities and send them to police academies so they can come back to their neighborhoods, etc. etc, etc.

[Dream Girl]

10. We need federal legislation

[mitch96]

22. I agree and if there is no "fist" in the glove to ad action to the legislation, what do you do?

[ProfessorGAC]

29. The Games Will Be Made Up

In basketball, because all the teams protested, there were no forfeits.
Milwaukee was willing to forfeit the game, but their opponent said no, they would sit out too!
Then everybody agreed to sit.
In baseball, those games are being played today with 7 inning doubleheaders.
No $ is being lost.
The protest is strongly symbolic and forced some promises from the league & ownership for concrete actions.
Now, the threat of lost revenue was likely a strong motivator, but no revenue has so far, been lost.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Kicked and recommended. ❤ nt

[Cha]

13. Rt

[MissB]

14. Warms my heart

Thank you to all sports teams that are cancelling.

[MontanaMama]

16. Kick.

[Talitha]

19. K&R

[jalan48]

30. They're back at it in the NBA today. Milwaukee leads Orlando 118-102 in the 4th Quarter.

[Polybius]

33. I just hope this doesn't help Trump

I am not saying it will, I'm just saying I hope it doesn't.

[JonLP24]

36. I love the NBA because I don't have to worry about Trump

I love the emotional display from the players, it is very moving. I can enjoy a game and not worry about Trump or conservatism.