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NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - At Ease - 08-26-2020 10:06 PM The Milwaukee Bucks forfeited their playoff game today vs. the Orlando Magic, an act that was followed by the rest of the NBA's playoff teams as well. Here is story from Sterling Brown about racial injustice: Quote:The city of Milwaukee wanted to give me $400,000 to be quiet after cops kneeled on my neck, stood on my ankle, and tased me in a parking lot. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/sterling-brown-milwaukee-police-racial-injustice RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - At Ease - 08-26-2020 10:12 PM RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 09:30 AM I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - RiceLad15 - 08-27-2020 09:41 AM (08-27-2020 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. Cancel culture at its finest... RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 09:43 AM (08-27-2020 09:41 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. Oh, they can keep their jobs...I guess you are saying I HAVE to watch? I wonder what difference you see between NBA players refusing to play unless some principle is addressed and me refusing to watch unless some principle is addressed? Please enlighten us. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 09:50 AM (08-27-2020 09:43 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:41 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. Lad? Lad? Where did he go? RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - tanqtonic - 08-27-2020 11:19 AM When the NBA laid prostrate to Beijing is when I stopped giving a rat's ass about the NBA. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - tanqtonic - 08-27-2020 12:15 PM NBA season will continue apparently to the news. That's what Xi said. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - tanqtonic - 08-27-2020 12:22 PM From my perspective. People will commit crime, and become criminals. Criminals will continue to resisting arrest. In some instances, at least some officers will continue to use force to arrest criminals. Police officers will continue to use greater force to arrest people resisting arrest. Sometimes that force will be deadly. All of the above will continue to occur, no matter what Lebron James and other athletes demand. So, given the above, will the NBA shut down in every instance a white police officer (or officers) uses deadly force against a black criminal? Or against a black criminal resisting arrest? If the answer is yes, the NBA isnt sustainable. This isnt even going into the NBA being Xi's hand maiden. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 01:08 PM I think the NBA is buying into/promulgating a myth. If the goal to achieve a country where black people are never arrested, I think that is unobtainable at this time. if the goal is to label the USA as an oppressive country, they are not selling that to me, even with th help- of leading Democrats. I would like to see the NBA cancel the rest of this season and every future season as a protest. Not play another game until we have justice in ths country. I think to meet this goal, the players should be keen to give up all the money owed them by their contracts. When principles meet their own money, then we will see about their principles. Actually, my boycott extends to any athletic contest in which the athletes do not stand for the Anthem/flag, including Rice contests. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 01:34 PM Where's Lad? RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - tanqtonic - 08-27-2020 02:43 PM (08-27-2020 01:08 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I would like to see the NBA cancel the rest of this season and every future season as a protest. Not play another game until we have justice in ths country. As to the above, and to the 'we are going to cancel our team's playoffs' ---- the self-boycott is the stupidest version of a boycott. As with you, if they are so down with this course, have all the teams cancel the rest of their games. No skin off my back. It would be like me saying 'I am so fed up with systemic {pick your 0-2 adjectives here} {pick your 1 societal trait here}' that I am going to refuse to practice ANY law for the next 4 months.' Lolz. By the way on a note similar to your boycott of any sports where the participants dont stand for the national anthem: Last night a gentleman name Madison Cawthorn gave a speech at the RNC. He is the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, is 25 years old and is paralyzed from the waist down from a car accident as a teenager. At the end of his speech two people came out to him and placed a walker in front of his wheelchair. Cawthorn then rose from his wheelchair and stood, with the assistance of his aides and the walker. He urged Americans to not “cower to a mob,” and to “kneel before God but stand for our flag.” So, some jacktard PBS correspondent then tweeted this: "Madison Cawthorn made it a point to stand, suggesting that all Americans to should stand during the pledge of allegiance & national anthem." It was a direct rebuke of actions by ppl -- including black athletes who are currently sitting out games -- protesting police brutality." This is where we are by some people's measure – any (white) person who says it’s ok to stand for the flag, and encourages others to publicly express feelings of patriotism is now inherently racist for disrespecting the actions of athletes to the woke crowd. White athletes *must* kneel with black athletes. Participate in groupthink or be harassed and shunned. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - RiceLad15 - 08-27-2020 02:57 PM (08-27-2020 09:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:43 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:41 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. Oof, I don’t answer in 10 minutes and you think I’m ignoring you. Sorry, been trouble shooting an issue for work all day, baking up on a roof top. Sometimes I don’t have the luxury of responding ASAP - please done take offense. I was making a joke, I figured the stir the pot icon was sufficient. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 03:39 PM (08-27-2020 02:57 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:43 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:41 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:(08-27-2020 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I can't see AE's presumably silly and biased posts, but I can say I am boycotting anything NBA until they stand for the National Anthem. I figured you had to work. AFAIK, I am the only one here with an open schedule. Just surprised it came up so soon after my question. In the smoke-spotting business that is called a puff of smoke. Easy to draw incorrect conclusions from puffs. As for the icon, I don't speak sign language that well. Remember, I am an old coot. Talk plainly with me. To be fair, sometimes you ignore my questions for days, and then tell me to look up something you said months ago. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 04:53 PM (08-27-2020 02:43 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:(08-27-2020 01:08 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I would like to see the NBA cancel the rest of this season and every future season as a protest. Not play another game until we have justice in ths country. That PBS idiot is a real piece of work - or piece of something, anyway. I just got tired of these oppressed black men who make millions kneeling for the flag or the anthem in protest of something that is not real. Police brutality? I am against that, and also against cannibalism, but I still stand for the anthem. I can protest their protest. I have chosen to extend this to any athletic event, pro or amateur - so I hope if there are Rice events on TV our athletes choose to pay respect to the country. If this crap keeps up, I may watch only one sporting event this year - the Army-Navy game. I bet those kids do it right. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - Rice93 - 08-27-2020 05:29 PM (08-27-2020 02:43 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:(08-27-2020 01:08 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: I would like to see the NBA cancel the rest of this season and every future season as a protest. Not play another game until we have justice in ths country. I don't read that this correspondent was calling this a racist act... he called it a rebuke of protesters' actions. Why do you think he was calling it racist? Because he mentioned black athletes? Perhaps it was a dog whistle of sorts to SJWs but it seems like a stretch. White athletes (at least those that don't have the same philosophy on these events) are in sort of a bind these days. If they don't participate with their colleagues then it may fracture the team and create issues that are unwelcome during the playoffs (or short-season baseball). RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - OptimisticOwl - 08-27-2020 05:48 PM speech "The activist below found a way to turn a paraplegic standing up in his wheelchair an act of white supremacy," Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross tweeted. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - Rice93 - 08-27-2020 05:54 PM (08-27-2020 05:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: speech I'm not sure who's more guilty of hyperbole... Yamiche Alcindor or Chuck Ross. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - tanqtonic - 08-27-2020 07:39 PM (08-27-2020 05:54 PM)Rice93 Wrote:(08-27-2020 05:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: speech I thought this was somewhat on point: Quote:"How on earth could you possibly turn the rather moving act of a FREAKIN' PARAPLEGIC rising for the national anthem into some weird BLM trip?" Well, it might take one who is so vested in the movement to note an act of 'standing for the national anthem' as a 'rebuke'. Kind of grotesque in my mind. RE: NBA players boycott playoff games to protest racial injustice - Rice93 - 08-27-2020 08:40 PM (08-27-2020 07:39 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:(08-27-2020 05:54 PM)Rice93 Wrote:(08-27-2020 05:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: speech I didn't watch the speech and I'm not going to go back and do so. My assumption is that he was pointing out that he stands for the national anthem and for the flag (in contradistinction to those protesters who don't). A bit of red meat for the base? Perhaps that's why one guy read it as a rebuke? I may be off on this (again... didn't watch). Maybe he didn't draw any type of comparison to the protesters. |