The Peeler wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 08:11:44 -0800, clinically insane, pedophilic, serbian
> bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
> sexual cripple, making an ass of herself as "inge23...@aol.con", farted
> again:
>>>> You 'worship' the superseded jew g-d haShit and there WAS no
>>>> 'holocaust'®™, gook!
>>>> --
>>>
>>> Nithing, you keep proving, ON THE SPOT, what I write about you!
>>
>> Needledick, you keep zsuckling, ON THE SPOT, the very freshly squeezed
>> jew diarrhoea I wrote about!
>
> And you HAD to come running along and prove, yet AGAIN, what he wrote about
> you! Just HOW retarded are you, filthy pedo?
He always does that.
Jack Marshall writes about ethics rot on sports pages.
http://ethicsalarms.com/2021/01/28/ethics-rot-on-the-sports-pages/
Ethics Rot On The Sports Pages
JANUARY 28, 2021 / JACK MARSHALL
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I have written here before that following baseball and baseball
commentary as a child formed the foundation of my interest in ethics and
ethical virtues. This was made possible by my idealistic, lawyer, war
hero father guiding me through various thickets of confusion and toxic
rationalizations, but I worked a lot of it out myself. Boston
sportswriting was famously full of fools and blow-hards back then, but
at least there was seldom any political opining on the sports pages. I
assume that responsible editors forbade it, since the typical
sportswriter possessed the sophistication of the average eleven-year
old. Sports was seen, correctly, as an often abstract metaphor for real
life, where one could learn useful lessons about human nature and
problem solving, but one which would curdle quickly once it was confused
with the more complex issues that lay outside the stadiums, parks,
fields and arenas.
An important book could be written about how politics spoiled, and
perhaps even ruined, sports, and the negative effect of this on the rest
of American society. I don’t have the time for that, and it’s outside of
my area of expertise anyway. However, it seems clear that the
politicization and progressive brain-washing that has perverted so much
else today has infected sports, perhaps fatally, and that whatever value
the topic may have had in conveying cultural values to our young has
evaporated in the steam of empty wokeness and ruthless propaganda.
This week provided additional damning evidence. Monday was epic, as the
sports page propagandists prepared us for the brain-twisting logic of
the baseball Hall of Fame voters determining that Curt Schilling’s
support for the previous President of the United States made him a worse
pitcher. One Times article demonstrated just how devoid of critical
thinking skills sports writers are by quoting with approval a supposedly
astute baseball writer’s’ suggestion that “making transphobic comments”
is a “much better” reason to keep a player out of the Hall of Fame than
his steroid use. Incredible! The latter is cheating on the field. The
former is the expression of an opinion, and has nothing to do with
baseball at all.
But that wasn’t the worst of what Monday’s sportswriting wisdom brought
us. The new primary sports columnist of the New York Times, Kurt
Streeter, reflecting on the end of the NFL season, issued a screed
celebrating—wait for it—Colin Kaepernick.
“Kap was right” the head exploding thing begins. No, in fact Kap wasn’t
right, and what he first and foremost wasn’t right about was the
appropriateness of a worker using the workplace to make grandstanding
political statements having nothing to do with his job, what he was paid
for, or the product his business’s customers were paying for. Streeter
doesn’t even address this, the threshold reason Kaepernick’s stunt was
wrong without even considering its message, garbled as it was.
Nor does the sportswriter, who is black (I guessed!), bother to remind
us of what Kaepernick, who is, to quote what I wrote when he first
started kneeling, an idiot, said was the reason for his unethical
protest. Here is how he explained it in 2016,
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that
oppresses black people and people of color.To me, this is bigger than
football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There
are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away
with murder.”
So what was he “right” about, Kurt?
Lots of things are “bigger than football,” but that doesn’t mean they
belong on the football field. “There are bodies on the street” is a
meaningless statement, emotion without context. At the time, the
statement referred to the Ferguson police leaving Mike Brown’s body
where it fell in order to investigate the shooting, which unscrupulous
activists (and ignoramuses like Kaepernick) criticized as proof of the
police’s disrespect for black bodies. There are also many, many bodies
on the street that have been put there by black criminals, and police
work to protect black communities from them.
“People getting paid leave” was a reference to the belief of Kaepernick
and others who don’t know anything about the law, due process or basic
fairness (or, in many cases, pretend those things don’t “matter”) that
police officers in shooting incidents involving blacks should be
presumed guilty and racist. They should lose their jobs without any
determination of the facts. “Getting away with murder” is in the same
incompetent category: Kaepernick was referring to the deaths of Trayvon
Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, none of whom were “murdered.”
Most of all, the United States doesn’t “oppress” blacks and people of
color. From Ethics Alarms in 2016:
Regarding the latter, the U.S. allows over 11 million illegal
immigrants, mostly “of color,” remain in this country although they are
here illegally. Spanish speaking people of color are not required to
learn the language, as they should. The schools must accommodate their
children, when they fail their parental responsibility of teaching them
English, by providing translations of written material and oral
instruction. The United States has distorted almost every aspect of
society in long-standing, expensive, divisive and often futile efforts
to undo the cultural disadvantages inflicted by slavery and
institutionalized racism. 41.6 % of black Americans receive government
assistance in an average month; 36.4 percent of Hispanics; 17.8 % of
Asians or Pacific Islanders, contrasted with 13.2 % of whites. That’s
not oppression. Affirmative action, whereby blacks receive college
admission preferences over whites with similar or better test scores and
academic credentials, is still allowed by the courts (though it should
not be) and is still employed in a majority of colleges. That’s not
oppression. The current Justice Department and other federal agencies
have enacted policies, many of them of dubious value, that have been
aimed at assisting African-Americans, such as prohibitions on renters
seeking information about past criminal convictions. That’s not
oppression either. Most important of all, U.S. culture emphatically
rejects and punishes open expressions of racism, as well as a lot of
speech and opinion that isn’t racist at all, but is punished anyway,
just to be safe. That often constitutes oppression on behalf of people
of color, and it is all-American.
Kaepernick, meanwhile, was then playing football under a 6 year,
$114,000,000 contract including a $12,328,766 signing bonus, with
$61,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $19,000,000. He
certainly wasn’t being oppressed, especially since at the time of his
protest, he also wasn’t a very good quarterback. So, so oppressed.
As Dorian Majied, an Army Ranger veteran who served in Iraq, responded
to Kaepernick’s gesture of ingratitude and ignorance at the time,
“To disrespect the country that has afforded him the opportunities and
fortunes he acquired is only made more offensive by the fact that his
life is the personification of the ideals I see in the American flag and
National Anthem: a biracial child, raised by white parents, and who has
accomplished much despite his “oppression.” In how many more nations
around the world can a story like that come to fruition?…Kaepernick was
wrong in his delivery and protested the wrong symbols of America. The
American flag and National Anthem represent the highest of American
ideals, not the lowest ideals.”
So again, what was Colin Kaepernick right about? What did he demonstrate
that, according to Streeter, “carried the profound weight of truth”? Get
this…
We’ve seen the rise of white supremacy. The stream of police shootings.
The killing of George Floyd. Protests, the coronavirus pandemic and the
deadly storming of the Capitol. Kaepernick’s critique of America
foretold it all.
There had been no “rise in white supremacy”…what does that even mean? A
woman “of color” was just elected Vice-President based only on the fact
that she was a woman of color, and little else. There has been no
“stream of police shootings.” Police shootings have declined since
Kaepernick’s stunt, and were already declining in 2015. “The killing of
George Floyd” is now a cliche, but it has yet to be determined that
Floyd was killed, and there is no evidence that racism had anything to
do with it if he was. The protests were created by the racist
organization that Kaepernick supports, Black Lives Matter, and fueled by
disinformation like his. The riot at the Capitol had nothing to do with
race whatsoever. (Note that Streeter calls that “deadly,” but not the
“mostly peaceful” BLM protests, which killed far more.)
And Kaepernick foretold the pandemic?
Not only was Kaepernick not “right” about anything, Streeter is wrong
about everything, and the Times editors were irresponsible to allow his
disgraceful column to be published on the sports pages, not just because
of its misrepresentations, but because of its pathetic lack of competent
and objective analysis.
It is decent anti-American, progressive, Black Lives Matter propaganda,
though. As sports coverage deteriorates in that direction, what was once
a positive and uniting force in our culture becomes a poisonous one.
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