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Player gets booed for upholding personal convictions
(06-07-2018, 12:42 PM)Beaker Wrote: 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.

Context is important. My response had nothing to do with the player's protest. I already said she had the right to not want to support the cause.

 It was in response to someone suggesting that programs that are inclusive and push for equal treatment are promoting "privileges" and that "As long as we, as a society, continue to draw special attention... no one will ever be equal".
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RE: Player gets booed for upholding personal convictions - BmorePat87 - 06-07-2018, 04:38 PM

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