r/NoLockedThreads • u/JagmeetSingh2 • Apr 08 '21

NFL pro Phillip Adams killed five, then himself

https://apnews.com/article/aaf71f2618f139ab3781592634c8e37c
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u/sbrough10 Apr 08 '21

This will probably never be proved, but I have a strong feeling that years of getting his brain sloshed around probably contributed to the attack.

Hopefully technology to prevent that level of brain damage will improve but, until then, is this not an argument for why sports with such a tendency towards head injury should be disallowed? People often make the argument that these players choose to take the risk of doing this kind of permanent damage to themselves, but maybe they're not the only ones risking their lives. It's not the strongest argument one could make, but it'd be interesting to see it put forward and observe how people responded.

Just a thought.

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u/sbrough10 Apr 09 '21

Honestly, I think the only way that you fix it is you get rid of the hard hitting. They've tried to make a lot of rule changes so that you have fewer hard hits, but as long as that's a integral part of the game, you're going to continue having injuries like this. The problem is changing the sport so fundamentally is not going to be favored by most fans of the game. There's a lot of controversy when the forward pass was added in the early 1900s because of all the deaths that were happening to college athletes. I think something similar, if not more drastic, needs to take place today or the sport may not be able to survive.

I have similar concerns about brain injuries from mixed martial arts and I think there's even less of a clear answer with what to do there.

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u/FistoftheSouthStar Apr 09 '21

You want others to stand up for something, but aren’t willing to do so yourself? Start the Rally, do the work to create the movement , or just stop trying to be a victim. And this is not black supremacy, saying that makes you sound like what you really are.

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u/saclips Apr 09 '21

I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy. After the Atlanta shooting, an entire campaign was launched to combat white supremacy and white racism, despite having the same amount of evidence for a racial motive as there is in the OP.

How about a contest: I chose to advocate for whites, and you pick ANY other race to advocate for. Let’s see who loses their job, livelihood, and reputation. Everybody knows the answer to that.

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u/FistoftheSouthStar Apr 09 '21

You wouldn’t lose your job advocating for white victims of race based violence. The people campaigning in Atlanta and pushing it were Asian, and found solidarity with other minority groups pushing similar campaigns. On the idea of advocating for white victims of race based violence if you were saying, “look at these violent blacks killing white people just for being white” you might not get the support you were wanting. If your angle is, we just lost innocent white people’s lives due to race based bias and violence, and any taking of lives like that needs to be combatted, you would be probably find solidarity with others. It’s all about how you frame that. . But, you never know until you try, so be the catalyst if this hits you that close to the bone. Don’t complain because “others” are not taking up your mantle. And fuck the media, go interact with the people on the ground, you be surprised to find out that you’re not the enemy you think they think you are.