Jesus you guys
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It's not my fault so many anti-sports takes are just these transparently veiled "ugh so icky" comments much like how girls make about boys wrestling or what have you. oh yeah and >violence lol. You'd think only a 1950's housewife would be capable of such an eye-rolling opinion
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You need to separate sport as a communal activity - the pick up basketball game - and sport as intensely nationalistic spectacle literally underwritten by the military, as football is here in the US. The backlash against kneeling athletes reveals the spectacle’s political content
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Oh I have no doubt the US has heavily integrated politics into their entertainment. How is saying the national anthem before every game not a political, patriotic gesture? That's not what I'm arguing against though. The NFL is a NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION and should function as such
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Read your Fanon, guys! TL;DR soccer has multiple contested meanings, and just because one is particularly rotten doesn’t mean the potential role of sports in liberatory (particularly anti-colonial) thought should be dismissed
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Frantz "What is a nation?
What is a cultural consciousness?
What is negro jazz?
" Fanon, eh? Youd think intellectuals would be intellectual enough to realize that not everything can or should be intellectualized. The theory-equivalent of looking for the soul with a microscope -
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