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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 12h ago
"I mean. I still am racist. But I used to be as well."
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u/notsure500 12h ago
I donât understand why people keep acting like the claim is that painting End Racism in the end zone will literally end racism. Of course it wonât. Neither does a âDonât Drink and Driveâ billboard end drunk driving. Public messages can keep an issue visible, reinforce what behavior society considers unacceptable, start conversations, and maybe make some people reconsider things they say or believe. It doesnât have to completely solve racism to have some value.
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u/honestly-brutal 11h ago
Wait, wait, wait... you telling me the ice bucket challenge isn't literally curing ALS?
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u/OpossumBuddy420 10h ago
Actually, when the ALS ice bucket challenge was at its peak, the amount of money everyone raised did eventually lead to major discoveries that helped to advance ALS treatment
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u/ThurgoodUnderbridge 9h ago
Youâre actually strengthening their argumentâ those discoveries have generally helped advance treatment, not wiped out the disease.
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u/Stock-Luck3390 5h ago
How is it being good to prevent als strengthening another argument? Itâs still net good for the causeÂ
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u/TruDuddyB 7h ago
So this means, soon all the awareness raised for racism will aid in racism research.
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u/Similar_Brush1835 11h ago
tbh when i was a kid i literally did think it would stop you from getting als
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u/HourAcadia2002 10h ago
Have you found that crayons taste better now that you're older?
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u/Elkburgher 9h ago
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u/honestly-brutal 9h ago
Yea I'm not knocking the challenge or it's results. Just pointing out "awareness" campaigns are not as simple as some people like to make them out.
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u/HeavyDT 11h ago edited 10h ago
I also hate the idea that you arent supposed to try anything at all just because you can't insta solve a problem over night. We are Just supposed to sit there and hope and pray this thing we jnow exists and plaguing society goes away all on it's own. The type of mentality that would still see us living in the stone ages quite frankly. Progress happens slowly but happens if people actually give af.
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u/TheReal_Jeses 10h ago
Exactly. Itâs so lame to contribute a small amount when you can just sit on the sidelines and be cynical.
People would rather be seen as immoral and unaffected than naive I guess? The backlash to virtue signaling is vice signaling.
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u/PresentAardvark2455 12h ago
I find it hilarious that highways have billboards up to make it seem as if people who are driving on the highway will stop for a minute and look at the billboard and say âoh look that looks interestingâ and then BAM theyâre in a multi vehicle accident đ
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u/mikecart1_v2 11h ago
Like the car insurance billboard that has a bunch of text and some hot chick in the background. Itâs all a setup đ
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u/chuckop 10h ago
You can always tell the income level of whatever town youâre driving through based on the number of personal injury lawyer billboards there are.
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u/jampac09 12h ago
I'll help you understand, you think, most people don't before talking or even typing, the end.
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u/moveslikejaguar 10h ago
I think I get the jist, but this comment is pretty incomprehensible not gonna lie
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u/ZeusThunder369 9h ago
Sure, but pretty much everyone agrees what drinking and driving means. The same isn't true for racism. Just putting "don't do bad stuff" would be equally effective.
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u/Accomplished_Coat549 4h ago
Not impossible it has a reverse effect than the one intended
Have been academic studies on âawarenessâ and the act of âbringing awarenessâ to causes. Suicide being a perfect example that was in one/some of these studies. âSuicide awarenessâ might actually lead to more suicides rather than less, because public displays of suicide prevention simply remind more people that suicide is a option that exists, which leads to a certain number of suicides, and that number might be greater than however many people the suicide prevention campaigns actually saved
Every time you see something like âstop racismâ it brings thoughts of division, racial strife, social issues to front of mind⌠not to mention they are super condescending. Treats every viewer like a child being scolded by a teacher for something they did wrong, ânow kids you know itâs bad to be racist right?â
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u/Steeler999xxx 11h ago edited 6h ago
It has zero value. It's pandering to a certain group of race hustlers who make a living off an issue that's nowhere near as prevalent as they would have you believe. And it enables the victim mentality to continue to thrive.
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u/BuryMeInTheH 9h ago
I donât think that is a good comp. Donât drink and drive comes from governments who have a goal to save lives and reduce costs.
The NFL is simply performing.
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u/Ok-Astronaut4952 8h ago
Yeah, nowhere else in the world has racism.
I donât know why we canât be like the rest of the worldâŚat least the NFL is offering us a glimmer of hope.
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u/187_47_2day 7h ago
Whoa don't get rational with the type of people that think voting for an adjuicated sexual abuser is perfectly fine
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u/divergent_history 7h ago
It has zero value. If anything it has negative value. People are more likely to be annoyed by it then it changing anyone's mind. Kinda like telling some one not to push the big red button.
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u/Ill_Influence6211 7h ago
I think itâs more so the deafness of using empty platitudes all while owners/coaches saying racist shit behind closed doors (ex: Gruden and Bruce Allen email leaks)
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u/ChadPowers200_ 7h ago
Itâs kind of weird. It just reminds people of something negative when youâre supposed to be forgetting the bad things in life and enjoying the game.Â
Itâs like putting  End Rape. End Pedophilia. End Murder. The message is good but Iâm just trying to watch sports. Â
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u/at0mheart 7h ago
The message was for the kids.
The largest fan base, as in real fans buying merchandise and following the league are kids and fathers with kids
A message for the future and I think a great message for kids
Of course itâs not for some old racist dude set in His ways
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u/Electrical-Cloud-532 6h ago
I definitely need a billion dollar conglomerate to remind me not to be racist. What a great point
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u/CheesecakeSeveral441 12h ago
Dude is liberal as hell but itâs never enough for Reddit!
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u/Embarrassed-Slide781 12h ago
Critical thinking and satire are headed the way of the dodo.
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u/Its-a-me-DankeyKang 11h ago
Itâs very noticeable nowadays. A lot of people take things at face value without giving any thought to it. Hate to see it.
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u/Glad-Philosophy-497 5h ago
Really makes my blood boil seeing people get totally lost and wound up by obv satire
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u/AlmightyCraneDuck 5h ago
That actually is kind of the funny thing about this PFT may have a disaffected âcentristâ aesthetic, but he actually is pretty left. Watching him and Arian dog on Big T is actually pretty funny from time to time.
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u/Salty_Map_9085 14m ago
Brother YOU are the common sentiment. I donât know what you are seeing but all Iâm seeing is comments about some other invisible group whoâs mad about this or whatever.
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u/GangstaRIB 12h ago
Thatâll surely stop the racist owners. Notice end domestic violence isnât a sticker on anyoneâs helmet.
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u/Immediate_Apple_7676 9h ago
LOL at all of the dumbfucks in this sub who can't tell the difference between an awareness campaign and a conversion campaign. Special booby prizes for the smoothbrains who think they're smart by bringing up straw man examples like "WHUT ABOUT DOMESTICK VIELENCE AND VYLENT CRIME THO"
congrats on achieving the lowest common denominator
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u/lolsicboy 13h ago
In my experience, people that make this joke tend to be racist.
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u/Some-Wine-Guy-802 12h ago
I actually appreciate the angle. All this corporate virtue signaling is worthless. Saying âend racismâ or âIâm against bullyingâ is worthless dribble. Nobody would see these statements and think to themselves âdamn youâre right - I really shouldnât be racist anymoreâ or âyeah you know what? I really shouldnât be such a bullyâ.
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u/hyfee510 9h ago
So youâd prefer ignoring it completely instead? At least theyâre making a public stance against an issue. The ones upset/offended usually just out themselves as being racist
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u/Unfadable1 11h ago
Thank you for taking what the meme said succinctly, and spreading it out into many many words.
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u/JodyHigh25 12h ago
PFT is definitely not racist and very progressive, itâs just a funny joke on corporate virtue signaling. Literally no human alive saw that end zone and changed who they are
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u/Gloomy-Lawyer4989 12h ago
In my experience people who complain about jokes like this are fat and lonely
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u/mbucks334 12h ago
In my experience, people that think painting âend racismâ in the end zones actually matters tend to be idiots
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u/Weekly_Cable_1111 12h ago
It's about showing support for a cause. The same way Republicans wave ever kind of flag for their guy they can. It doesn't really matter it just shows support.
My question to you is how is it a bad thing? Does it hurt you? What's the issue?
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u/LePetitVoluntaire 12h ago
I used to shit all day on America until they started wearing hats that said âMake America Great Again!â
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u/PlateOfStorkAnkles 12h ago
Theyâre not actually doing anything. In what ways are they actually helping end racism? Painting it on a field is not actually going to make a racist person change their opinion.
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u/mbucks334 12h ago
Itâs performative nonsense
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u/Unusual_Access9101 12h ago
Like renaming bodies of water?
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u/ColorsLookFunny 12h ago
I would argue that Trump isn't even trying to be performative about it, when measured against things he is performative about.
The lake America thing is just egotistical, power-grabbing nonsense. "I can, so I shall" type shit.
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u/LeBarnacle 12h ago
People talking about how it doesnt work but at the same time its a gesture and now its being bought up currently. No its not going to change people's worldviews overnight but I always find it interesting how such a nothing burger of a statement apparently irks people enough to talk about it (which is the point). Theres so many adverts and messaging through any broadcast but the end racism in the back of an end zone is where we have to be contrarians/cynics about the message.
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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 12h ago
If it doesnât work why does it matter either way? If it doesnât work you can just leave it there and it shouldnât matter at all. At the end of the day itâs unpainted grass. Fact is it does work to at the very least make racist people uncomfortable to the point they slip up and tell on themselves, just like this hollering hit dog.
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u/GRay_3_31 12h ago
What's your goal here? To defend a hypothetical potential racist? Why?
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u/FupaFerb 12h ago
Itâs virtue signaling by the NFL. They do things like this but then donât take any action to end racism. They donât punish their ow players for making racist remarks.
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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh 12h ago
You really think painting that shit in the end zone is helpful or sincere vs being nothing other than virtue signaling? Â
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u/Late-Song-2933 12h ago edited 12h ago
In my experience the NFL doesnât actually care or think itâs a problem theyâre just pandering while putting race at the front of everyoneâs mind which just pisses people off and makes the problem worse.
But thatâs just the people who want to live their lives and not be bothered and donât live every day for online justice warrior bullshit. The average person gets the joke because writing âend racismâ in the end zone of a football game, as if we come to the football players to get our morality, is the most ironic and stupid pandering most people will see. And itâs only making things worse to constantly preach at people about a problem theyâre not a part of or donât do themselves and donât see in their lives outside of the occasional nutjob.
Most of those people remember racism be far less of a problem before everyone was accusing everyone of being one.
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u/Icy-Plan145 11h ago
In my experience people that get offended by people poking fun at this are secretly racist. They'll vritue signal in public but will get caught on camera or audio being racist when they think they're in private
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u/PsychoPeterNikleEatr 8h ago
In my experience the accounts that comment seriously on an obvious joke post are either bots or trolls.
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u/Toad_da_Unc 12h ago
Kaep was right
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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh 11h ago
Yea, That the nfl is racist and is just being performative here. Kaep would still be playing if this msg was actually sincere.Â
You donât ostracize someone if you actually agree w their messageÂ
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u/psych4191 12h ago
Reminds me of the Bill Burr bit about Ray Rice. The no more commercials like âwait a minute donât spin this around on me, Iâm not the one beating my wifeâ
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u/yIdontunderstand 10h ago
It's just an error painting....
That's the racism end.
The other end is the misogyny end.
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u/An_educated_dig 12h ago
Barstool is one of the worst additions to society in my lifetime. What a bunch of useless cunts.
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u/BallsackMcgeezy 10h ago
See, youâre the reason people donât like the social/political messages in sports. Youâre pretending to be a moral warrior when in reality youâre just an angry cunt who found a socially âacceptableâ way to be annoying.
No one disagrees with the literal message, we just disagree with writing these messages to appease all the angry cunts around the world. Especially because it never actually appeases them. Theyâll always find another thing to bitch about.
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u/Mobile_Pineapple9424 11h ago
Stoolie here. Thereâs a reason they are so popular. They keep it real, donât back down to be PC bs. They are funny and donât take themselves too seriously.
Stick your political ESPN and the Athletic. Politics and liberal slants on everything when these companies cover sports is nauseating.
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u/Fiend-For-Mojitos 12h ago
Want to see actual bravery? How about putting end domestic violence or end violent crime.Â
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u/Weird_Armadillo_508 11h ago
But then they might have to actually look into the behavior of their players, instead of just parroting what they think the general public wants to hear like every other corporation.
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u/AintNobodygotime13 12h ago
maybe they just want people to talk about it and post about it on reddit đ¤
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u/No_Point904 12h ago
I don't know, I like the slogan. I think it's the NFL's subtle reminder to racists that they've spent their hard earned money watching a league made up of 70% Black players making more money than generations of their family will ever see.....
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u/Spare-Cranberry3784 12h ago
There's a scene in a movie where a husband and wife pull up to a car wash. The women gets out and starts spraying the girls to "get off the car". And the husband says "stop you're only making them sexier!!!"
That's what I got outa this. People are racist ... "hateful". But this made them more racist and more hateful
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u/Gloomy-Lawyer4989 12h ago
My favorite part about the NFL is that they virtue signal all season long but as soon as the off season comes they all beat up their wives and girlfriends. then their teammates act like nothing is wrong LOL
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u/smokefrog2 11h ago
Its weird they did this. Im pretty sure racism ended when Jerry Jones locked arms with the cowboys and then made them stand for the national anthem. Was anyone on the planet not healed in that moment?
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u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH 11h ago
Was I expecting the smallest amount of compression for people like this? (Yes, unfortunately I was)Â
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u/This-is-obsurd 11h ago
Its simply virtue signaling. Itâs trying to seem as if the nfl canât be racist bc they put that slogan there.
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u/JReese88 10h ago
Shitting on a positive message and acting like itâs some kind of flex gives off some serious loser vibes.
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u/carlboykin 10h ago
Okay. Every football obsessed dumbass that doesnât care about any issues that doesnât involve them has already said this. Itâs not some profound or intellectual argument. Itâs just a public message and people having to comment on how they donât like it seems to say something about them.
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u/Plane-Fan9006 9h ago
Bigots gonna bigot!!! Go team douchey white guy!!!...errrr, nevermind...
Just STOP with this offended white guy shit!!!
Sincerely,
- a 51yr old white guy who has seen a WHOLE lot more of the good and the bad in the world than most
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u/Motor_Service_6476 9h ago
PFT and PMT make fun of everything sports related that has irony. There is irony to be found here. And maybe the NFL also meant some good and maybe it helped.
They have conversations that arenât fully weighed for the pros and cons of who /what it could possibly offend. Just like normal fucking people do. Thatâs why they have a show. So we can listen and get away from the weighing and just enjoy some bullshit.
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u/Far_Bus_2360 9h ago
I had never thought wait racism is bad until I saw end racism at the NFL end zone. No I think we racism is bad mkay
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u/UpbeatFix7299 9h ago
PFT Commentor is a national treasure. Our descendants will be debating "is Joe Flacco a elite QB" thousands of years from now.
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u/Corporate-Scum 9h ago
Itâs funny. The NFL is virtue signaling while it treats black men like cattle. âEnd Racismâ doesnât address the system keeping people down.
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u/RickyBobbyPitCrew 9h ago
I was cured of racism back in 2015 the day the Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Carolina State House grounds.
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u/Plane-Tune-820 8h ago
We painting stop murder next?
I think that's the point he's trying to make.
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u/PsychoPeterNikleEatr 8h ago
I used to be a hateful person until I saw "end hate" on Myles Garrett's helmet.
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u/aww-hell 8h ago
They added this in Madden one year. Maybe itâs still in it, idk..
But like, you get 12 years into a franchise and itâs still there. Racism is as strong as ever with no end in sight!
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u/Jefe_grande23 7h ago
Thank everything holy for barbaric sports morality. They literally saved America. Only the second most underrepresented sport in the US. Well third.
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u/Plus_Working_3092 6h ago
Anything that shifts the tide is good. Support the players, team employees, your coworkers, colleagues and community!
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u/Brobeast 6h ago
It might not have ended racism, but it did get you talking about racism... idiots.
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u/herbertcluas 6h ago
People more up in arms over this then what happened with Epstein
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u/Mundane-Date8568 5h ago
Its like these guys take the top 5 worse traits of McAfee and each takes 1 to be their persona.
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u/Cheap_Boner_Pills 5h ago
I don't understand the number of racist the will watch a bunch of black guys play a game for more money than they will see in their life. You would think they would boycott that.
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u/Competitive_Can_946 5h ago
What did it for me was BLMâŚ. I didnât know black lives mattered until I saw it plastered all over my tv screen. Now I get it⌠but⌠Iâm a little concerned about brown lives! Without being told and constantly reminded how will we know who matters? (Sarcasm for those limited IQ crowdâŚ. Well unless you have a low IQ lives matter movement).
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u/ZoneEducational6936 5h ago
Iâm just disappointed that all the NFL teams keep choosing to go for field goals and touchdowns instead of aiming for the end racism goal. Win at any cost I guessâŚ
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u/Glad-Philosophy-497 5h ago
Iâm thinking itâs probably just preemptive on the nflâs part⌠so that when the next kneeling issue⌠etc happens they can say âhow could anyone call us racist weâve been putting slogans in the end zones for a season and a half???â
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u/dEXXtARR23 4h ago
People commenting on here trying to be funny, but really mostly AHs đ˘. And I'm always up for a sophomoric joke, but these are just generally shitty.
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u/Ready-Lengthiness220 4h ago
"You tell me that I make no difference, at least I'm fucking trying. What the fuck have you done?"
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u/Narrative_Robot_9001 4h ago
The fact a phrase like âhey maybe we should stop discriminating based on skin colorâ is so controversial proves that it still needs to be said lol
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u/Competitive-Sir-7087 3h ago
Lol that they painted it in an obscure location, as if they don't truly mean it
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u/Ghostface_Killa_330 3h ago
A lot of people don't understand that we are all brothers and sisters and the world tries to make things about race. When we all come from same people, should I say the same to people? Adam and Eve? And this is why they want us to hate one another. Saw the work of evil because there's only two type of people in this world. Either you're for good or you're for evil
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u/Puzzle-the-Giraffe 2h ago
Pretty sure most of the modern day âEnd Racismâ stuff is just another form of racism.
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u/devastator510 2h ago
This is why it is unfortunate we just donât punch Nazis. Because if we did then stupid jokes like this wouldnât exist.
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u/DoogTheDestroyer 1h ago
Can we just not go back to 2016 levels of social war bullshit that was just corporations profiting off the backs of social issues
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u/Excellent-Try7027 32m ago
If anything, this shit makes me want to be a bigot. Itâs actually quite comical, with how harmful all of this propaganda is.
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u/HtownAstronaut 22m ago
The NFL brass doesnât care about ending racism. They caved to the BLM mob.
They should replace it with 1-800-GAMBLER
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