Was reading Erik Carlson's article "You Are a Horrible Person" (https://badlands.substack.com/p/you-are-a-horrible-person?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) regarding what happened to Damar Hamlin. Carlson proposes tongue-in-cheek that if a routine tackle can cause a young, healthy player to go into cardiac arrest, then football and all other contact sports should cease to exist. As I read that, it occurred to me how vital it is for the globalists to end all sportsball for good.
Sports used to be one of the things that united people from different backgrounds. The only people who hated sports were leftists, because of all that "toxic masculinity." So, like all of our other institutions, the left began infiltrating the sports world, systematically destroying it by leaving their woke imprint. First it was stirring up controversy over gay athletes. Then it was the push to put women's sports on equal footing with men's sports (yes, I'm a woman, and I absolutely consider men's sports a vastly superior product). But now, thanks to Covid, the globalists have accelerated the destruction of sportsball:
- Sports were shut down during the pandemic.
- When they were reopened, people couldn't attend games.
- When people were allowed to attend, they had to wear masks and socially distance.
- When the clot shot became available, both athletes and patrons were told to get it or else they would not be allowed to participate.
- Those who did get the shot are now "dying suddenly."
We have certainly seen over the last two years how easily swayed the sheep are. I can totally see those in control drawing a straight line from Hamlin's situation to "OMG Sportsball isn’t safe! We must end it!" And it doesn't end with the pro teams. College, high school, Pop Warner, it all goes away. One more thing to take away from our kids to make them fat, lazy, and compliant.
In brief, sportsball allowed these leftist in, and because they did, the sportsball empire will all be destroyed. When they say "everything woke turns to shit," sometimes that is intentional. It certainly looks like it in this case.
Exactly. I read an article a while back and the author said we should not push STEM in inner city schools. Encouraging kids to explore careers in a relatively well-paying industry is bad, but pushing them into sportsball is good? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations 🙄
Pushing anything can lead to an abundance of qualified workers and a shortage of jobs, we have done that already. That is why college is an unnecessary suggestion, at least at the price. Florida used to let people test out of their classes for credit, not sure if they still do and I think most of the Ivy league schools post their material for free, have seen a few lectures from Harvard, no idea what they were talking about. I think that people should be able to explore for themselves, learn the jobs they want to learn without being huddled to the next economic boom/collapse cycle that seems to be the norm. Make apprenticeships normal!
"Make apprenticeships normal!"
This, times a million.