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2718601, I just don't know what moves that needle, man
Posted by Nodima, Wed Aug-26-20 02:23 AM
I was splitting time between a protest and the Lakers game Monday night since that bar was mostly dead and my friend was behind the stick, and there was this Macauley Culkin circa Stan-era Eminem dude down there that was the most baffling infuriating dude I'd met in a long time and we went the whole gamut. Police monitoring the protest came over to investigate and left him alone once learning he was a veteran and mostly yelling at a Black guy. What he was yelling about was how frustrating it was that in order to watch basketball he had to see all this BLM bullshit and that he couldn't walk down the street after his shift without being reminded of how weird the world is right now. They had a drumline going and, "as a drummer", he couldn't understand why any self-respecting drummer would politicize such an apolitical instrument.

At one point when he was finally being asked to leave by everyone within earshot, he said the sentences "I fought for this country, for this fucking freedom you're telling me I don't have. Fuck America, man!" back to back which was such a fascinating mental hurdle I'm still thinking about it twenty four hours later.

I just think there are too many people out there that would hold it against the players for depriving them of their beloved basketball without ever stopping to analyze how backwards it would be to complain about a bunch of affluent Black men depriving us poor white guys of our favorite hobby to make a point about the abuse of Black men's bodies in this country. These people just can't see past whatever entitlement they think they have, at least not when it comes to something as germane to the American experience as watching live sports has become. This guy was complaining to a Black man about Black Lives Matter ruining his enjoyment of this sport primarily comprised of Black athletes. And then got upset when the Black guy and his white friends swarmed him and called him on it!

These are the people who made Facebook posts two weeks ago when the Big Ten canceled its fall sports about how "I was anti-mask all summer but now it's serious guys. Masks on, we've got to save the Huskers/Buckeyes/Hawkeyes' season!" without realizing they've already missed the point and can't have what they have.

These people are going to be pushed against the wall until they die, and I'd worry that sitting out a basketball game would actually just rev them up rather than inspire any kind of introspection.

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