06-07-2018, 12:42 PM
(06-05-2018, 11:13 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: You can’t combat inequality without acknowledging that it exists.
As long as we, as a society, do not discourage treating people differently, people will continue to treat people differently.
No civil rights movement in this country was advanced by ignoring discrimination.
Nobody has denied inequality. But that doesn't over ride the issue of personal freedom. If you want to acknowledge/protest inequality, that should be your right. If you don't want to acknowledge/protest inequality, that should be your right also. So the fact that the player declined an invitation to a team whose views did not match her own is perfectly fine. She should not be demonized for not thinking the same way as someone who is more accepting of LGBTQ issues. If she were actively protesting against LBGTQ rights, that would be a different story. But she wasn't....she was simply choosing not to participate by declining an invitation. And nobody is acknowledging how difficult a decision that may have been for her given that playing for the USWNT is quite an honor, not to mention the goal of most young female soccer players.
