ESPN:
The NFL is continuing its on-field social justice messaging for a sixth straight season.
All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “Choose Love” or “Inspire Change.” Once again, “It Takes All of Us” will be stenciled in the opposite end zone for all games. The only change from 2024 is that “Inspire Change” replaces “Vote.”
It’s “an end zone message of their choice” but all possible messages that can be chosen have been preselected for the teams. A team that wished to say “End Poverty”, for example, would not be free to make that choice. (One great way to end poverty would be for everyone who currently spends money on NFL tickets to instead donate that money to the poor! Another great way would be for everyone who watches NFL games on TV to instead work a gig job for those hours and donate the earnings to the poor.)
Who will be watching tonight’s game, the first of the season, and can let us know what social justice messages were communicated?
Separately, if you’re watching an NFL game on CBS make sure to turn off the TV before the news comes on. Bari Weiss, a traitor to the social justice cause (former NYT journalist), is going to be corrupting what had been a socially just news organization (from the NY Post):
Apparently, journalists who aren’t progressive Democrats are so rare that it cost CBS $200 million to hire one. Just how Deplorable is Bari Weiss? Here’s a recent Free Press article that contradicts progressives’ most authoritative source for health-related information (i.e., the Gaza Health Ministry):
See, also, “Another Reason Not to Trust the ‘Experts’”:
The International Association of Genocide Scholars calls itself a body of experts, but joining requires only a form and a fee. Members include parody accounts like ‘Mo Cookie’ and ‘Emperor Palpatine.’
My comment on this august body of scholars:
How about:
https://concussionfoundation.org/cte-resources/what-is-cte/
Is the Palestine Genocide for real? A much more important NFL-related question lighting up social media is “Trav <3 Tay-Tay : when is the big day?"
AT: the “Palestine Genocide” is real and the suffering from it is exacerbated by simultaneous rapid population growth in every part of “Palestine”. The only thing worse than genocide is genocide+population explosion.
@philg
FWIW: part of my problem is that I don’t understand Twitter, in all seriousness. I’m old and used to reading hundreds of pages to understand a topic. (My browser blocks X by default, which is for the best I think.) Posturing and short one-liners do not add much to my understanding of issues. I couldn’t even tell if you were on zerohedge’s side or not. Pictures of blue tarps being buried isn’t evidence of anything.
IMO, social media doesn’t really do anything except amplify existing bias or existing confusion, much less fuel legitimate movements. I have tried contacting the Thunberg Foundation and offered to talk to them “off of social media”–but their ghosting me has indicated that isn’t possible, “digest the Twitter Chow” is the message, or go away. Being a member of an acting family has its merits in the age of postured, sound-bite dialog, even the peasants are doing it.
Later on.
@AT
> AT: the “Palestine Genocide” is real
Sarcasm/satire/cynicism. Both of you, really. Follow the scary quotes.
GenX Teen 1: Here comes that cannon ball guy. He’s cool.
GenX Teen 2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
GenX Teen 1: I don’t even know anymore.
— Simpsons
Later on, indeed.
@T#1
Point taken.
Palestinian Zen koan: “What happens when an irresistible satirical force meets a immovable cynical object?”
Only educated people like our 30 year old newly minted philosopher and Palestinian [unquoted for extra cynicism] “Buddhist” Mohsen Mahdawi, B.A. Columbia School of General Studies truly know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Mahdawi
(No quotes on the P-word in his Wikipedia page.) How do you suggest deleting a Wiki page, for lack of notoriety?
Ta ta for now, my friend with trust issues.
One more rhetorical thought. Heaven forbid that I am ever accused of being a social activist–however, I find myself watching a lot of PBS and listening to NPR, as I’m going to do tonight–I paid for it with my tax dollars and I feel I should get my money’s worth. But let’s be clear: my interest in these programs is purely for entertainment and education, not to take a stand or join any cause. I enjoy the documentaries and insightful discussions, and often get triggered and scream back at them, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to don a counter protest shirt or join an opposing rally. I appreciate the information without the obligation to act on it. After all, there’s a fine line between being informed and being an activist–I prefer to stay comfortably on the sidelines, and write haiku:
One more thought echoes
Public airwaves whisper truth
Knowledge paid in full!
NFL end zone ideas:
#IgnoranceIsBliss #CouchActivism #DisengageAndChill #AccidentalActivist
> I find myself watching a lot of PBS
We started watching “Purple Dreams” on PBS last night at my wife’s suggestion, after we had our weekly argument about DEI. She herself begged me to turn off the TV after about 15 minutes–when the assistant principal danced around the principal during a student assembly of diverse, mostly gay black kids. Their curriculum at their Arts school, where “black youth stereotypes are turned upside down”, was mostly dancing around all day with Mick Jagger moves–so yeah turned upside down, left, right, inside out. No mention of English, history, math, science, or even vocations like plumber, carpenter, or electrician.
^@^@^@…NO CARRIER
Once again the NFL refuses to allow “Don’t beat women” as a possible end zone message. I guess it still hits too close to home…
My wife suggested #MeToo, I guess that’s a little too on point.
As a straight guy, I’d rather watch women’s volleyball or basketball anyway, sounding suspiciously woke, but there I said it.
@^@^@^…NO CARRIER
How can the NFL restrict teams to just four options when the league has expanded to include games in countries outside the United States? What if one of those countries refuses to accept or comply with the limited options the NFL provides?
São Paulo, Brazil (Chargers vs. Chiefs), Dublin, Ireland (Steelers vs. Vikings), London, England (Vikings vs. Browns and Jets vs. Broncos at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium; Jaguars vs. Rams at Wembley Stadium), Berlin, Germany (Colts vs. Falcons), and Madrid, Spain (Dolphins vs. Commanders)
Ah, right — for the São Paulo, Brazil game, the NFL didn’t let the home team (Chargers) to pick their messaging!
“Chargers fans upset with Chiefs logo appearing in end zone during designated home game in Brazil” [1]
[1] https://www.foxnews.com/sports/chargers-fans-upset-chiefs-logo-appears-end-zone-during-designated-home-game-brazil