>>Maybe it's easier to see for people who don't have such a stake in things.
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>>I think most people would agree about the injustice these players purport to protest.
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>No. Not really.
>One way to see things clearly is to distort them.
>Fewer than 30% of the people arrested for felony offense in the US during the past several years have been female.
>Given the prevailing logic, there's a huge bias against men in the criminal justice system.
>Of course that's absurd.
>MEN COMMIT MORE CRIMES THAN WOWEN DO.

Are you under the impression there is no racial bias in our country and judicial system?

>>But there are ways and means.
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>>What disgusts many people, even if they can't articulate it, is selection of a drama-laden attention-seeking virtue signal that makes zero, nada difference to the issue in real life- while stomping on something that others care about dearly. As if two wrongs somehow make a right.
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>>It's as if people stage a protest against hunger, rioting and burning along the way, and then at the end, full of adrenaline and excitement, high-fiving over the huge difference they just made to hunger.
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>>Er, no, you made zero difference to hunger, only to the livelihoods of those whose businesses and vehicles you wrecked along the way. A cynic might argue that hunger is just a shield of sanctimony to legitimize a bit of bovva.
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>>The truth is that these "athletes" are highly rewarded and can use their wealth and power to make a real difference, if they were so inclined.
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>>The astonishing thing is that people think all this is new, when it's referenced in most religious works written centuries ago. Paraphrasing a modern translation of Matthew 6:
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>>"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them... so when you do good works, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."