I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: SAYING THAT SOMETHING ELSE IS A PROBLEM AS WELL DOES NOT MAKE THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM NONEXISTENT
E.G.: “well the the opioid crisis kills more than gun violence” “We have too many of homeless vets we should focus on them before immigrants”
This was a prediction a few years ago from a French TV show about how hot it might be by 2050 if we didn’t stop climate change.
France is seeing these temperatures today.
Climate change is happening faster than predicted and it’s going to get much worse.
Don’t fall for this “bothsidesism” bullshit. It threatens democracy. And yes, it is that serious.
One side is taking a stand against oppression/oppressors. The other side is reinforcing oppression of historically marginalized groups. Stop giving them equal weight.
i feel just really heartbroken for the players who came out and spoke up against him when they hadn’t before, they had the strength to try to protect their fellow players and team staff and as usual the league spits in their face
Absolute legend of the game Georges Laraque—one of the most crucial and unflinching voices on racism in the NHL and beyond and one of the most proactive LGBTQ+ allies the league has ever had, all when it was considered even less acceptable to speak on issues ‘outside’ of hockey
might delete idk but
it's the "everyone wants to save the world but no one wants to help mom do the dishes" thing to me. they want to be hero of the day saving women in dark streets but never tackle the everyday things/ppl (incl themselves) contributing to rape culture
there’s a p good book that came out a few years ago “nazi billionaires” by david de jong that detailed how the leading nazis & their families stole & maintained their fortunes, it ends with the author discovering that the goebbels family was a major donor to an israeli art museum
So u can’t have a CC of women’s hockey bc CC exists in juxtaposition with a primarily Black womens league and that aspect is very important to the function CC has in sports culture.
Get it straight:
THEY HELD PRIDE NIGHT ANYWAY. Just no baseball because the bigots quit. So the bigots forfeited and the community celebrated without them.
Fuck off bigots.
Ik the main focus is the homophobia but I hope the Kent storyline hits them like a fucking truck and they get blasted even beyond sports circle for pardoning a rapist just last year. May they lose sleep every night.