Cancel Culture in Tennessee Sports

[Jonnusthegreat]

It's almost as if hypocrisy shows you don't have any logical reasons to believe what you believe.

[Cthulhu 2020]

I'll also point out that during the period you describe, conservatives labored intensely to undermine workers rights and institute at-will employment as the default which is the thing that makes 'cancelling someone by getting them fired over social media' possible. Something something Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

There's no cancel culture. It's half at-will employment, half "you're annoyed people can reply to your social media posts with a picture of a pig crapping on its balls without repercussions".

Basically. The funny part is that in the latter half of the 20th century, conservative culture was creating laws that would allow them to socially ostracize anyone they deemed "outsiders" without repercussions. Conservatives literally created the infrastructure for allowing cancel culture to happen so they could "cancel" out LGBTQ and anyone else they deemed outsiders/unworthy.

Conservative culture ostracized so many people, it created a counter-culture that itself became mainstream. And now that same culture that has become the more accepted mainstream is telling conservatives to fuck off, and they're having a melt down that they're no longer the ones making the rules of what is allowed and what isn't.

So congrats, conservatives are the ones who gave corporations the rights to tell people to fuck off, and now they're big sad that those same corporations are telling conservatives and their fascism to fuck off.

[Machismo]

Should anyone be surprised that Republicans despise the 1st Amendment?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Here's a thought. Fuck your nationalism and get rid of anthems at games, problem solved.

Fuck, I'd love to see the shitstorm that comes with Sporting Leagues deciding not to have the national anthem sung at games.

[Ds123macd]

I kind of like the knee support thing.

It's a solid indication of which stocks and shares are about to crash and is normally a good time to buy.

I mean, if you bought stocks and shares in any NFL related company after the knee thing started and then sold them after they started promoting Brady again, you will have made a tidy little profit.

[Machismo]

I kind of like the knee support thing.

It's a solid indication of which stocks and shares are about to crash and is normally a good time to buy.

I mean, if you bought stocks and shares in any NFL related company after the knee thing started and then sold them after they started promoting Brady again, you will have made a tidy little profit.

Sorry, swing and a miss. Nike sales went up significantly.

Wrong, again.

[Ds123macd]

Sorry, swing and a miss. Nike sales went up significantly.

Wrong, again.

Your feelers aren't a good indication of stock share prices.

I wouldn't invest significant amounts of money if i were you. But by all means give it a go if you're feeling lucky xx

[Machismo]

Your feelers aren't a good indication of stock share prices.

I wouldn't invest significant amounts of money if i were you. But by all means give it a go if you're feeling lucky xx

That's funny, Nike seems to have done just fine...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NKE/history?p=NKE

Look at those quantifiable statistics.

[postman1782]

That's funny, Nike seems to have done just fine...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NKE/history?p=NKE

Look at those quantifiable statistics.

Yep, all those posts, and he couldn't post a single link to a source to back himself up.

[Breccia]

I still don't understand when kneeling became an insult.

When it was about bringing America's attention to African-Americans being murdered by the police.

[Rennadrel]

Fuck, I'd love to see the shitstorm that comes with Sporting Leagues deciding not to have the national anthem sung at games.

I've been a fan of getting rid of it since the whole kneeling drama started a few years ago. If people want to protest, they can do it on their own time. People watch sports to get away from politics and I get annoyed seeing all this political stuff being shoved into it.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I've been a fan of getting rid of it since the whole kneeling drama started a few years ago. If people want to protest, they can do it on their own time. People watch sports to get away from politics and I get annoyed seeing all this political stuff being shoved into it.

So, you don't actually care about the "nationalism" at all then.

[Adam Jensen]

Cancel culture isn't real though and anyone who thinks it is real should be fired immediately.

So you agree the entire Republican party should be fired from their positions.

Thanks.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I don't doubt that all of the major sports leagues would love to just do away with the anthem and all the drama that has been following it, but the problem is nobody wants to be the first one to do it. Holy hell the backlash they would face would be out of this universe and they know it.

Yeah, also...The NFL really likes that military sponsorship. Don't think they'd be too keen on giving that up.

[Elegiac]

I've been a fan of getting rid of it since the whole kneeling drama started a few years ago. If people want to protest, they can do it on their own time. People watch sports to get away from politics and I get annoyed seeing all this political stuff being shoved into it.

“I have the luxury of being apolitical and don’t like it when my bubble is intruded upon” is not an argument.

[Felya]

I don't doubt that all of the major sports leagues would love to just do away with the anthem and all the drama that has been following it, but the problem is nobody wants to be the first one to do it. Holy hell the backlash they would face would be out of this universe and they know it.

Mark Cuban did it, but got slapped down by NBA after conservatives presented a very sensible and pragmatic justi... ha! No... it was a shit show...

I used to watch the Teliesen (sp?) WoW news... good times...

[Poopymonster]

This is going to be tricky.

A public university is effectively the government and this would immediately be a black-and-white (get it?) First Amendment case.

A private university (who does not receive state money) could do this I suppose, but if there's a signed contract (i.e. the student has already enrolled) it seems pretty questionable.

In addition, there's the public view of a school stopping a peaceful protest from its own students. Perhaps that will be features on the campus tour?

Remember the last time the government stepped in to stop a peaceful protest?

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[Lenonis]

The only thing surprising about this is the sheer amount of hypocrisy the GOP has decided to be comfortable with. It's almost impressive how shameless they all are.

[Rennadrel]

So, you don't actually care about the "nationalism" at all then.

Let's just say that it helped start the conversation that wasn't really being had outside of small circles of sports fans. I've wanted it removed for a long time, especially since Americans seem to like bastardizing the Canadian anthem at every opportunity.

[Edge-]

If people want to protest, they can do it on their own time.

This is their own time. Work protests have, and will continue to exist.

People watch sports to get away from politics and I get annoyed seeing all this political stuff being shoved into it.

I mean...sporting events are largely conservative politics in-action in many regards, folks just don't notice it - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-conservative/