CIN-C-STAR wrote:UcanUwill wrote:Since we already went haywire with race angle, I will let myself to respond to this brilliant comment here, f it :
Pelon chingon wrote:Well for starters she isn't insufferable like the majority of the WNBA players and she actually supports the U.S.A. The rest of the league should take note that a little humility goes a long way.
What does that mean? I assume that players have political opinions, like Megan Rapinoe?
Unlike men, most women do not decline team USA invites and we get best players on team team USA almost every time, despite the fact most of these players basically play 2 seasons per year, normal seasons plus WNBA season. But ok, they do not support USA...
Some people are still mad that a handful of athletes decided to kneel during the playing of The National Anthem pregame, to protest racial inequality.
And since they don't like their protest, they've decided to claim that these people "hate America," because unfortunately that's the state of American politics -- You can't just disagree with someone these days, it's much more popular to personally insult them.
A lot of media these days plays on people's emotions. They want you to hate the people you disagree with, not just disagree, and in order to justify that hatred they have to convince you the others are not just wrong but evil -- hence terms like, "hate America," "Marxists/Communists," and on the other side, "racist," fascist," etc.
Not to say there aren't people who hate America, or are racist, or commies or fascists, but it's not as prevalent as opinion media (think Rush Limbaugh-style media) likes to convince people.
I think two party system is failing on its face, it really divided American people big time, I do not think it was that much a thing before, but now it is brutal. People even huge in politics barely think for themselves some times, they see their party support the idea while their opponent party does not, so they automatically support the idea themselves. As a person who comes from multi party systems, it seems rather unbelievable to agree with one party on everything while disagreeing with other on everything.
But that said, maybe us people are that simple, because I would look what major GOP defenders support nowadays and be amazed how I do in fact disagree with EVRYTHING. Like how is that even possible, we aren't talking things from even close to same fields, but if they will have opinion on any field, I most likely will disagree with it strongly. And maybe I am wrong and they are right, but in my view, my moral code is complete opposite of what these people preaching today. Maybe we people really are that black and white, and American politics have that figured out?
I am not a huge American Democrat fan or anything, I wish both parties did many things way different, but I see them as GOP opposition, so as of today, I tend to support that party just because of that fact. I never was biggest GOP fan, but right now, that side seem to have lost everything I would find appealing, but that is just my opinion, and maybe I am the bad guy.
I did in fact talked to one GOP supporter recently and he did flat out told me - that I should not support democrats, because they hate America... Obviously, none of these people actually hate America, I might hate GOP politicians and their mascot, but not like I believe they are Chinese double agent spies, they really believe they are doing the right thing, but everyone will never agree what is the right thing is, and that what politics IS.
Anyhow, I know this is not the place for this talk, and I am sorry, I know no one wants to read any of it, it just a therapeutic to write this out sometimes.
