08-31-2020, 10:02 AM
(08-30-2020, 12:28 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I hate overpaid athletes making political statements about anything and yes social injustice is up for debate. Why no mention of abortion and fact almost 2400 babies are killed each year? Of those 80% are minorities? Is that an injustice? If so, why silent?
I want to watch and enjoy sports and entertainment and would prefer they keep their political views to themselves, just like they do with abortion.
I can sympathize with this take. I absolutely understand why people look to sports to escape all of this stuff. I can also only imagine if athletes, whom I don't look to as experts in anything except for their chosen sport, were free to use their sport being on TV to shove their personal agenda in people's faces.
It's a very interesting time we're in in that way. I appreciate athletes speaking out about what's important to them. I'm just not sure that should be front and center on the field/court.
What the Bengals did/said I am fine with and am eager to see what they roll out over the next year.
On the abortion front, I heard an interview where someone pointed out that planned parenthood is actually stopping black population growth. There was a statistic given where more black children were aborted in NYC one year than were born. I looked it up and in 2013, that was 100% TRUE.
If you haven't watched Dave Chappelle's bit on abortion from his latest Netflix series, it's hilarious. He basically said before the bit that you can figure out his stance by the end of it. At the end he said "You body your choice, but my money should mean my choice". Meaning, if you can choose to have it, he should be free to choose to not support the child.... since, you know, everybody gets a choice now. Which, of course, isn't going to happen.
^ His big picture point, to me, was that there isn't/shouldn't be a choice in either scenario.
