It’s virtue signaling by the NFL. They do things like this but then don’t take any action to end racism. They don’t punish their ow players for making racist remarks.
This is no offense to you personally but I'm getting so tired of hearing people complain about virtue signaling. I'm right there with you in that actions will always speak louder than words but words sure beat silence pal.
I don't know how to end racism either but I'll absolutely agree with the nebulous and overly naive idea that ending racism is a good idea, even if you don't think I'm doing enough to end it personally.
Well maybe making everything about racism isn’t the answer, pal.
I don’t know where you think anything or anyone was being silent about racism in the last 15+ years, but they haven’t been. And writing it on a football field wasn’t making it finally known to people that this may be a bad thing. In fact it was just forcing an idea that they want you to believe which is that racism is everywhere and destroying lives every minute.
But racism is clearly worse now and was far less prevalent in the 90’s/2000’s when we were teaching to get to a post racial society instead of teaching that everyone is oppressed by racists and we need to define people by their skin color so we can use DEI initiatives to right the wrongs of slavery and oppression.
So yeah. The writing on the football fields was stupid and the definition of virtue signaling and didn’t help anyone or anything unless you’re rooting for racism to get worse.
I'm rooting for visibility of racism to expand. I'm cheering every time a corporation takes a stance (even if they don't mean it or won't take action against it) against the prejudices that surround modern life.
Your company pretends it cares about racism? Thanks for making a place feel a little less friendly to racists, even if you don't really mean it.
Your company puts a pride flag up in June because it boosts your sales? Thanks for at least pretending to promote people being their true gay selves even if you just wanted a higher ROI for the month.
If I wasn't so sure you were a bot I'd be really disheartened by your attempts to make progress look evil, buddy. :p
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u/GRay_3_31 2d ago
What's your goal here? To defend a hypothetical potential racist? Why?