It’s always good to remember that you can choose not to buy things from companies you don’t want to support
Capitalism is just about markets, and markets are about consumers. You have more power than you think!
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That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Whoever said that should step out of their bubble and have a look around once in awhile
Exactly
A lot of the political entries are written with a bent towards being sympathetic with leftists.
The Kyle Rittenhouse article spends a lot of time on how Rittenhouse ‘appeared in conservative media’ or ‘appeared with conservative personalities’ which is a pretty weird thing to say, if you don’t already understand the political undertones of the Kenosha riot.
When you click the article for the Kenosha riot, it’s titled ‘civil unrest in Kenosha’ and focusses a lot on what a reader would perceive as positive aims of the riot. Protesting racism and police brutality, and doesn’t focus at all on the crime, danger, guns, vandalism, arson, etc
That article mentions BLM and when you read that article it makes sure to state that BLM protests were ‘largely peaceful’ and totally misses the amount of deaths and destruction that had happened at them.
The BLM article, if written like the Rittenhouse article, should focus a fair amount in the organizations ties to Marxism, the overthrowing of capitalism and colonialism, but doesn’t.
Wikipedia articles are written and edited and maintained to push a narrative.
If you agree with the narrative, you probably like that it does this. If you disagree, you probably don’t bother reading Wikipedia very much.
The issue with sources, is that a lot of ‘sources’ for stuff like this are already heavily curated to paint a picture the editors want to put on front street.
And anything that would combat that narrative is just outright banned from the site.
A lot of citations with politically charged topics are just opinions anyway. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer or sources on the war between Palestine and isreal, for example. But if Wikipedia editors want to push propaganda for either side over the other, all they have to do is only cite pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli sources.
This is easily exploitable by editors for whatever narrative they choose to push.
Wikipedia is not an exhaustive gathering of all relevant information, it is a carefully curated propaganda machine for the editors.
Of course it’s just a PR stunt. Do you not realize that’s the entire reason companies and organizations do these types of promotional things?
They want to sell jerseys and get people to tune in or come to the arena.
For example, when was the last time you saw BLM messaging at an NFL game?
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If this was anything more than PR for these people, it wouldn’t have ever gone away.
There’s about 800 players in the NHL. Twitter focussed on 2-3 of them and ruined it for everyone.
Yes, this is the fault of people who can’t see the good in something, they need to make the negative the most talked about thing.
If those people wanted to celebrate inclusivity, they should have done that.
When will people realize that all Twitter is is advertising on top of advertising?
Advertising and political propaganda. Why would anyone use this site? It really makes no sense
Does that say Russia has lost 300k people?
I don’t think James Reimer doesn’t want you to exist.
I seriously doubt you knew who James Reimer was until someone complained about him on Twitter, honestly.
Did you notice that the best hockey player in the wold was supporting you though? Because if that was the conversation you were having about this, instead of saying a couple medicocre NHL players have closed minded views, you’d probably have felt a lot happier about the situation then and now, and the league would probably still be having players do pre-skates with pride jerseys on the ice.
That’s not at all what they’re saying. This is the fault of the Twitter crowd who harassed the league about players who didn’t want to wear the jersey’s in warm ups.
Twitter made such a massive deal about 2-3 players not wearing the jersey and turned what was supposed to be a great thing for the lgbtq community, with hundreds of players wearing them proudly into a shit storm of negativity.
Unfortunately, this put the league in a really impossible spot. Either they allow the terrier mob to blow the situation way out of proportion with negativity surrounding these inclusivity celebrations or they would have to mandate players wear them and punish them for not wearing them.
That would likely lead to problems with the union, possible issues with the next CBA and possibly lost season(s).
What we should learn from this, I think, is to just ignore people who have dumb beliefs and celebrate the ones who have it right.
Instead of making fringe players like provorov or Reimer the entirety of the publicity and the story and amplifying them, we should be talking about the actual GOATs proudly wearing them and turning it into a positive thing for the league.
McDavid, Crosby, Ovechkin, Matthews, Mackinnon, etc
Amplify the fact that the best of the best players in the world want everyone to feel included.
I feel bad for the league, they obviously wanted to do these things, they did them for years, until it turned into really really bad press for the league.