Post#2167 » by fbalmeida » Fri Dec 2, 2022 4:55 pm
Noticed a lot of comments about the political gestures made by certain teams.
I have zero problems with the German national team making a simple gesture of protest in a country where women can't even buy a SIM card without their husband or a male relative being present.
I would also have zero problems with players making similar gestures of protest in the US for the horrific blunders of their foreign policy, lack of universal health care, or outlying realities in terms of reproductive rights, access to guns, etc.
I do think it's misguided to declare that people from one part of the globe are disqualified from making public criticism of a specific set of issues in another part of the globe, simply on the basis of another set of (often unrelated) criticizable issues.
An often forgotten aspect of an overused word - hypocrisy - is that being a hypocrite doesn't mean you're wrong about whatever point you're trying to make. It just means you're a hypocrite.
"The Raptors will be fine." - Masai Ujiri, March 26th, 2021