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There's a difference between refusing to patronize and "cancelling."
Boycotting is the primary method of "cancelling".
“Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive."
I heard the NFL fans booed the players’ kneeling and other BLM displays.
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Originally Posted by gg
It is their right to protest the kneelers. You want to kneel, you should expect a counter protest! Well done by those fans!
No one was kneeling when the booing took place. They booed during the "moment of silence" while the players stood with linked arms. The game was played at a deep red area so some displays of disrespect were to be expected. It is their right to boo of course. Most people wondered what they were booing about, and my guess is that one drunken person started it and others joined in.
Nobody tunes in to the NBA to see what a guy who barely made it out of high school thinks about social issues, the same guy who kisses the feet of the Chinese dictator.
Not true. This is 2020, not 1970. Most NBA players (including black NBA players) attended private schools. Not saying that makes them smart, but they are more educated then blacks in the NFL, and certainly come from more middle class backgrounds then blacks in the NFL.
No one was kneeling when the booing took place. They booed during the "moment of silence" while the players stood with linked arms. The game was played at a deep red area so some displays of disrespect were to be expected. It is their right to boo of course. Most people wondered what they were booing about, and my guess is that one drunken person started it and others joined in.
Disrespect in regard to what?
A moment of silence that they disagree with?
Which was held in regard to statistically proportional deaths of people who die at the hands of police, complaints for which are commonly and falsely framed as racism on the part of the common race of the people who bought tickets to the game?
Good luck with your frame.
Here's a tip going forward:
don't imply that the mostly working class people who bought tickets to your millionaire's game are de facto racist, as they are forced to quietly endure horrendously high crime rates encroaching on their neighborhoods and endure the same bad outcome rates per police interaction and proportional to their group's crime, and you won't get booed.
“Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures and companies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive."
What ridiculous definition are you citing?
Companies get boycotted all of the time and almost all survive. ie: they are not effectively cancelled.
The modern use of "cancel culture" refers to the phenomenon of social media or employee mobs forcing companies, via negative PR, to fire employees, cancel or fundamentally change programs, or otherwise change course in a manner that is not necessarily deemed to be logical by management if it weren't for the negative PR pressure that the MSM largely lends the mob its political capital to fuel.
Many sports stars engaged in illegal behavior (drugs, dog fights, spouse beating) but fans were willing to stick with their favorite sport because all that happened “off field”. It happened during the player’s private time away from the team. The fans looked at it like themselves at work. When they get off of work many commit questionable acts but aren’t wearing the uniform of their employer and aren’t on the clock. In this case the players and the league are doing this on the field of play on game day while in team uniform. In fact their SJW is printed directly on their uniform. They’ve made a mistake. In any business today if you take a one sided stance on politics or social issues like this then you risk alienating those who oppose your point of view. To many the BLM movement has become about riots, looting, arson, and making all police to be bad and needing to be eliminated. That’s the visual message we see when watching the protest in the evening news and cable news networks. Sure the reporters can say the protest were peaceful, but behind those reporters we see the fires started by arson, the people breaking into businesses to steal items, and protestors armed with clubs, bats, spikes, knives, and other weapons. Meanwhile the people the BLM are using as examples of bad cops are themselves criminals who were armed with weapons and in the process of committing crimes at the time they were shot.
I support good cops and want bad cops fully punished. I support police reform but not if it means eliminating police and putting into place policies that endanger the lives of offices when dealing with armed criminals or criminals high on some strange cocktail of narcotics.
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