Get Politics Out of Sports | 5 Minute Video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- Sports is the great unifier. It brings people of all races and backgrounds together. Or at least, it did. Podcaster and writer Jason Whitlock worries that when politics win, sports fans lose.
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Script:
Pro sports has become woke sports. And that's a problem-not just for athletics, but for all of us.
"Sport has the power . . . to unite people in a way that little else does. . . It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination."
Nelson Mandela spoke those words. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient understood the power of sports to bring disparate people together. There is no better example of this than the famous victory of South Africa's mixed-race team in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Mandela's presentation of the winner's trophy to team captain Francois Pienaar stands as an iconic symbol of unity in post-apartheid South Africa.
Sports have served as a powerful racial unifier in America as well. This is not new. It goes back decades.
In 1936, the great black sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics. In 1938, the great black boxer, Joe Louis, scored a first-round knockout over German heavyweight Max Schmeling. The Owens and Louis victories punctured Hitler's Aryan superiority myth, unified black and white Americans in pride and celebration, and established Owens and Louis as America's first black national heroes.
Jesse Owens and Joe Louis laid the foundation for Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey's partnership with black baseball legend Jackie Robinson to integrate Major League Baseball in the late 1940s. That, in turn, inspired Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. Barack Obama credited Robinson for his political rise. "There's a direct line between Jackie Robinson and me standing here," said America's first black president.
Obama saw what Mandela saw-how sports transcends all barriers: "When you see this group of folks of different shades . . . coming from different communities . . . and then playing as one team . . . and celebrating each other and being joyous in that, that tells us . . . something about . . . America." Sports, in other words, is the ultimate equalizer.
In competition, what matters is winning. That means excellence matters. And both are colorblind. Sports allow us to experience the power of pure meritocracy-the only way to govern sports, and the only way to govern life.
But now, all this storied history and the positive message of sports are being undone. In September 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee-that is, refused to stand-during the national anthem. His defenders say his protest wasn't about the flag. But Kaepernick said otherwise. "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told the press. We all know what happened next. Players across the NFL followed Kaepernick's lead, kneeling, locking arms, and even raising fists during the national anthem. Then athletes from other sports joined in.
Ironically, just as sports has the power to unite, we have discovered it also has equal power to divide.
On Opening Day 2021, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred stripped Atlanta of the All Star Game as punishment for Georgia politicians’ passage of a voter integrity bill. Bowing to the political mob that casts half of America as racist, the move fractured baseball’s fan base.
The entire American sports world-a culture that celebrated victors, colorblindness, and patriotism-has immersed itself in victimization and left-wing radicalism. This immersion threatens permanent damage, both to American sports and to the larger American culture.
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This, I certainly can agree with. Politics within sports, has caused some to lose interest in sports, because the meaning of sports has changed.
It's such a killjoy that they won't just run and jump and enjoy their millions. They have to use this platform to make others aware of their "black struggle". I'm just saying America longs for the good old days.
dude politics in sports has been constant. its literally inseparable. read this: docs.google.com/document/d/1WW7m-ZQiFBOC6vIK6wwyo2_A87oGMLUTK2UuDfQ-wd0/edit?usp=sharing
The people who want to get politics out of sports are hypocrites. For example, Laura Ingram told Lebron James to shut up and dribble, yet when Drew Brees gave a more conservative opinion, she said “well he has the right to his opinion.” The true motto is “get politics out of sports…unless I agree.” Not saying I agree with politics in sports. I agree it should get out of sports. I just think the critics lack consistency.
@@vgames89 @vgames89 I agree, there are some people who only want to get the side of politics that they disagree with, out of sports. However, how you phrased your comment, kind of sounded a little bit self-contradicting, but I get what you mean by that.
And people watch sports to escape the political stuff
They literally have destroyed everything that was once fun.
westfield90 The left destroys everything it touches.
Sports, film, tv, comics, books, art, etc...... all being ruined
No, it's much MUCH worse. They're eradicating hope itself.
Grow up lol
@@felixwalne3494 video games smh.
Get politics out of everything including sports
Too late, the cultural marxists will never relinquish control
@@JV-tg2ne “Cultural Marxists” lmao
@@davidlewocz7271 yeah yuri being right sure is funny
@TheRapper10000 Yes genocide we love genocide because of political views don't we conservatives.
@@ootmaster1 who are the cultural marxists?
Also get it out of education, science, business, and most everything else.
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Don't forget nerd culture....
We suffered enough of their bullcrap
No thanks we'll go ahead and keep it in lol
yeah! life occurs in clear cut silos and has no overlap!! No room for collaboration or multidisciplinary fields in MY AMERICA. Clearly the people don't understand that economic policy and international relations doesn't impact business. Businesses don't use science to develop their products. Education levels of citizens don't impact business or scientific research. Honestly just disgusting that Americans these days think that different areas of life are interwoven, when clearly they have NOTHING to do with each other. I mean gosh! Stupid liberals and their tendency to recognize - er I mean think - that different aspects of life impact each other. honestly just ew am i right? Don't get me STARTED on Americans exercising their right to protest. I mean how do these athletes think america was even formed? It clearly wasn't from an entire war born out of protest..... oh... wait a minute..... hmmm.... only TRUE AMERICANS know that the American Revolution never happened, America didn't form out of colonies and certainly NEVER created any harm for any other people living here. America just always existed, right?! everything else is just a big lie. dont believe what historians or scholars tell you - they're just the liberal elite who concocted some conspiracy. NO PROTEST EVER HELPED SHAPE THIS COUNTRY INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY. so athletes should just shut up, because everyone knows your right to freedom of speech only applies when I like what you have to say ! and if you don't agree with me then you should just quit your job and buck up because I love america, and despite america being built on the principles of life liberty and pursuit of happiness, if I don't like what you're doing you don't get to have those rights bc the founding fathers were all just one big liberal lie! QANON for life !! (for the record I'm absolutely being sarcastic and don't believe any of what I'm saying - just pointing out that its ridiculous to tell athletes to shut up, because if you truly appreciated american values, you'd understand that people's rights don't just evaporate due to their profession)
Yeah, let’s just get rid of Politics all together!
I refuse to watch basketball, football or baseball these days.
cancel culture for the win
@@lithium25693 it's not cancel culture, it's capitalism. we, the consumers, choose where to spend our money and time. cancel culture would be if we tried to get everyone who was pushing these ridiculous ideas fired or worse
@@lithium25693
Are you a real person?
@@lithium25693 you misunderstand. No one is trying to cancel. They simply pushed us away with their marxist activism in sports. If they want our attention and money, they they will play sports and cut out the politics and radical murderous divisionary class/race warfare.
@@cobrakingofeart You should tell that to Trump
th-cam.com/video/zGezQpJuLbg/w-d-xo.html
I completely stopped buying Nike products when they supported Colin's propaganda.
Same
Only when they supported Colin? Why not because they use child labour ?
Lol, That’s silly
@@phil6731 you think everyone is aware of that?
Me too buddy. I switched to Addidas
Agreed. Sport has become polluted with lie-based activism. People failing to do basic research and think critically believe it blindly.
th-cam.com/video/V3Ry9IdpnVA/w-d-xo.html I advise you to give this a watch if you're naïve enough to think Politics and sport are separable.
And to even talk about the '95 RWC...
The Mandela celebration was 'colourblind' but that's because politics had got in and made a change. Politics often use sports to influence people and perpetuate laws. The idea that sports have always been colourblind, for example before the FW De Klerk regime stepped down no black person was allowed to play in a professional soccer league, was soccer still colour blind???
@domhnall777 blm is a deeply racist organisation ... sadly many people ONLY follow twitter slogans
@@gmc7298 Sources? Critical thinking or are you just blindly following whatever prager u tells you.
Well it's good all the bots are here, hopefully their ongoing exposure to facts on PragerU will soak in. They're also dutifully adding to the view count :D
@@NZsportbiker Oh I have been exposed to conservative propaganda most my life, and it has only gotten worse in recent years. And trust me I am not joining you guys anytime soon.
Ufc is still pretty neutral overall and really exciting to watch
They are getting woke, they did not allow fighter Sasha Palatnikov to show his nations flag which is Taiwan.
@Alek Smith thats corporate grifting not capitalism, mate. Study more.
@Alek Smith thats just what you project because that's what you would do. Good thing you don't have money and power, mate. You'd be corrupt as shjt.
Funny enough. I’m an Irish native and started watching Irish bare knuckle fighting on TH-cam. THATS fighting
Lmao what about the president of the UFC openly supporting trump and Colby covington being extremely vocal about his views doesn’t sound neutral to
me
I finally gave up on all sports about 4 years ago. I use to be a big consumer of everything sports related. But all the woke grandstanding made it easy to find other hobbies. And don't get me started with all the corruption in college sports.
Dont forget about the 2 million white people that stood up to fight slavery and 400,000 of those died trying to free slaves.
@Albert Gront Who said anything about racial slurs?
You did that all because a man kneeled?
@@johnfkennedy3723 Sure, as a veteran, I take that shit seriously. That's OK if you don't have any thing you stand for. I lost friends over there.
@@russell32579 And dont forget the 1 million white men on the other side who fought to keep slavery alive and the 290,000 who died to preserve it
If they were consistent in their criticism of “racism” maybe they would have some more support. They refuse to criticize China for its racism.
Bingo
Every country in the world have some sort of racism. Every person in this world is racist, just on different levels. Only babies are pure, but now people are trying to taint them too.
That’s capitalism for you
the left is more critical of china's discrimination than the right.
@@fufu4229
Nothing's pure in this world, *even water*
IMO, professional sports has lost "Millions" of supporters/viewers and are working overtime to lose "Millions" more! Everyday people do not need professional sports to survive but professional sports needs everyday people to survive.
And yet before the pandemic they were making more money than ever before
When you're off the clock, we can talk. My work says no politics, I don't lecture people when I work. The doctor, cook, waitress, and everyone else day to day doesn't lecture me or take a knee. I get fighting for injustice, that's fine, but when I'm looking for a "service" in exchange for my time or money that I'm giving you...no.
It's reasonable for employers to worry about controversial and touchy issues impeding their service, but this isn't because it's right or justified, rather because it's not profitable. Some athletes' have leverage most people don't, and good for them. Giod money is spent for entertainment or a service, not for workers' capitulation to one's beliefs or political sensitivities. The same people who resent cancel culture also can't tolerate any woke opinions. In reality, capitalism takes advantage of laborers, people need money and thus are expected to stay silent while going along with whatever brand the company strives for, and for the most part it's not okay.
@@janpeke1948 I don't think you're understanding all the BLM on NBA courts is seen as both a statement but also a political movement, the clothing, the coaches speaking in the NBA during press conferences. It actually is better than it was but if I did what they do during work...I'd be let go. If I said and painted my workspace with anti BLM statements would that be acceptable? If during meeting or talking to the press representing my work would it be OK to be against BLM? Are players pressured to conform to a political or social stance they disagree with? Most players don't talk or promote politics, during games or even after, it's those that do that have ruined the fun.
@@boogieondown5824 "Are players pressured to conform to a political or social stance they disagree with?"
Yes, Kaepernick literally loss his job for not partaking in the national anthem and affirming his patriotism. You've literally pointed out everyone has to conform to the works' expectations. However this more of a bad thing than a fair thing, it's literally cancel culture.
@@oldmanwaterfall He made the political statement during work. That's his choice, no one cajoled him to do otherwise and he had others join him. A few even stayed in the locker room. He isn't playing because he wants more than he's worth as a QB, so like most pro players they retire on their previous millions, and he has a lot. He was offered at least once and I think twice two different contracts from NFL teams and he said it wasn't enough, even though it was market value for a 2nd string QB, with incentives for more if he started. His choice. I really don't have a big issue with taking a knee, but he had no plan. The fans likely pushed him out, not peer pressure...its a business, a customer can choose to not shop there if they don't like the service, that's why pushing political messages at work are a bad idea.
@@janpeke1948 The difference with sports and to a lesser degree entertainment like actors is they are the "product". Sure sports with regular people is fun to watch, but TV sells superstars playing against each other. Hollywood sells escapism, but usually star power is needed to bring you in to make the big money. Both are expected to be "neutral" because their job is to play the part of a gladiator that fights for YOUR team and affection, the Hollywood star has to play the part of your fantasy character in the movie, that unwritten contract can be broken if the person is too vocal in the real world hating things you like. Is it fair?...probably not, but that's how it works. So when your product says "Vote Trump", or "Your race is guilty", or "You the fan are bad, uncaring, and hurt others"...well you lose customers then. TH-cam personalities are still the product, but if your product is selling political one sided views, well then you know what's coming. There's no expectation of neutrality with TH-cam like sports and entertainment. You can say what you want, but people's reactions and money will determine if it keeps paying the bills.
The Title should be "Get Sports Out of Politics".
Honestly, i think the title make sense the way it is as well.
@@samuelebincoletto637 mhm
Politics have turned into a sporting event, with rabid fans on both sides.
@@WillSmith-lh1wi mhm
@@irvan36mm Yeah and like sports they are owned by corporations
I stopped watching sports when millionaires started taking a knee to protest how people like them didn't have enough opportunity.
If you are against politics being injected into your sporting events, they should not force the National Anthem down the throats of everyone.. Maybe that's when you should have rejected sports.
@@Greyareas27 the national anthem isnt politics, because it has nothing to do with the actual running of the country
@@gagejernigan5277 You can't have it both ways. You can't ostracize Kaepernick for being un-American and then claim it's not political..
@@Greyareas27 it's not political. The national anthem is not the place to protest. Just because I agree that it is his right to protest doesn't mean I think he should do it. Disrespecting the flag of the country that gave him the opportunity to play football and make millions is ridiculous, especially when he's saying he and his people are oppressed but he and his black teammates and the other over 70% of the NFL that is black are all making millions. More white people are killed by cops every year anyway. It's not the country or some invisible institution, it's your attitude. If you assume you can't get ahead because of someone else, you never WILL get ahead.
@@Greyareas27 "exploit his talent" it's completely voluntary, he's not being "exploited" I never said it wasn't real, It just doesn't exist in the facet lots of people insist it does. Once again, it has nothing to do with politics
I don’t like watching sports at all, but even I miss the days where we could all sit down together and watch sports, ignoring all of our petty differences to just knock back a cold one with friends of different races and political beliefs. Now it’s no longer the case.
You don't watch sports and you watch prageru. Get help. Fast
@@bender9222222222 You outta tell yourself the opposite dear.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 get help slow, dear? Makes sense.
I stopped watching ever since the Woke Dumpster Fire that is Stoopernick started playing politics. And then when the other players started following suite with defecating Stoopernick, I was done.
@@blackonblack...9244 i think youre just mad they have a different world view than you...pretty sad.
Since the day that Tim Tebow was penalized / threatened for kneeling and "K" was celebrated: Done Watching! Done Buying!
NO you aren't. NFL is not out of business and neither is the MLB. Just stop with the nonsense. All the corporations know that conservatives are pathetic cowards and can't stand up for anything. That's why they always bow to the left.
that’s an interesting take? Remind me which quarterback was blackballed again?
Politics divides us. Sport is supposed to unite us. There’s no place for politics there.
Sports only unites when you root for the same team. Doesn’t work if everyone roots for an opposing side.
@@andrewsandoval6410 last week a danish football player collapsed during the euro 2020 tournament due to cardiac arrest against Finland. Both sets of fans were united in their hope that he would pull through and sang his name. Just because there must be a victor in sports doesn’t mean sport itself can’t unite fans. Because it certainly does.
@@andrewsandoval6410 Not true. I'm a die hard Cardinals fan, and my best friend is a Seahawks fan. Division rivals if you didn't know. Our friendship started off talking about and watching football.
I stopped watching sports when covid shut everything down. Then realized I was wasting hours in front of my TV. I don't watch any sports anymore.
I haven't seen this video yet, but let's expand that title to say "Let's Get Politics Out Of Entertainment." Period! People use sports and entertainment to escape from real life for awhile and relax. Not everyone lives for politics. Let people just enjoy themselves without having in your face politics pushed in their faces 24/7. A majority of people are sick of it! They don't want it!
well the fact of the matter is that they are fighting for real issues, and it is and definitely has created change. docs.google.com/document/d/1WW7m-ZQiFBOC6vIK6wwyo2_A87oGMLUTK2UuDfQ-wd0/edit?usp=sharing
@@isecretlyvotedemocratbut2426 The point is....we don't want it shoved in our faces 24/7. You may live for politics but we don't. Think of something you can't stand hearing about and then imagine it being talked about 24/7, even in your entertainment when you just want to relax for awhile.. It's just making people tune out and turn it off. We don't want to hear about it anymore. We're done! From where I'm sitting, the only change it has created is that it's created more hate and resentment. People being silenced if they stray from the narrative. They claim they are for diversity and inclusion. But all I'm seeing are divisions, and diversity of thought is canceled. The current tactics are not helping. Don't listen to MSM. Try to find different sources of information. They edit and skew stories in a way that gives them ratings. They don't report the truth anymore. It's all one-sided opinion. Google and many social media platforms tend to show you what you want to see and hear. I like to get the full story and hear both sides of issues. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. Search outside your realm of thinking and listen to other points of view with an open mind. You might find out that many of us want the same things. We just disagree on the tactics.
@@Sunflower8587 well then I’m guessing you’ve never watched sports
@@isecretlyvotedemocratbut2426 I do watch sports occasionally. You are missing the point. Not everyone wants to hear about politics. Sports, in the past, has been an escape from people's lives and reality. For a few hours, people don't have to think about their troubles and just relax. Now negativity and real life are being brought into their entertainment. There is no escape from it! Again, think of something you can't stand to hear about. All you hear about all day long is that topic. You just want to relax for awhile and not have to think about it. Let your brain recharge. But then you are watching sports and there it is yet again. There is no escape. What do you do? Well, you have two choices. Watch and suffer through it yet again. OR you turn it off and go do something else because you're sick of hearing about it. That's where a lot of people are now. We are done hearing about it!
@@Sunflower8587 well I mean sports have always been political in one way or another. Sports as a concept is identity politics in many ways
I don't watch sports anymore. I used to watch baseball and football regularly, but I just can't give my money and attention to an organization that seems to hate me and my country.
Damn, you stopped watching sports after you got cut from your middle school basketball team? Must’ve cut deep.
@@thenotoriousconormcgregor6094 Shut up
@@thenotoriousconormcgregor6094 oh so clever.
By the way, didn't you notice I left off basketball? Because it sucks.
I don't even watch sports and I agree. When I found out that before 1960, loads of blacks were becoming famous and wealthy due to their undeniable skill and talent I go such a wholesome feeling. "You can't be racist in a free market."
This might be the dumbest comment I have ever read lol
@@brad.bryant explain
@@678crazydave first of all.. we literally had slavery and segregation in a free market. And just because some black athletes were becoming "rich and famous" doesn't mean there was no racism. You can easily look up how much black athletes made pre 1960 compared to their white counterparts and it just a fraction. They were being exploited and unfairly compensated while performing the same and sometimes better than white athletes.
@@brad.bryant Great written paragraph. I'd like to add on that there is still some small racism today in the NFL. For example black quarterbacks are seen as fast guys and extremely athletic however have no leadership and lack personality while white quarterbacks are seen as smarter, not as athletic but the leader and smarts of the offense. So racism does exist.
i cant tell if you're trolling or actually that stupid.. God damn this made me laugh.
"Get politics out a sports"
Talks for first two minutes about how sports have always been politial.
Lmao true
"get politics out of sports"
Than proceeds to talk about how we need to stand for the flag. Here's an idea, take all politics out of sports and not have the national anthem or flag in our sports games, than it's completely about the sport. Starting to think people aren't actually a fan of sports but more of a fan to jacking off to the flag...
He never said sports are political, he said sports influenced politics. Notice the difference.
I'll repeat it over and over again: Yuri Bezmenov was right.
I quit watching all professional sports because of this.
So did I.
You and me both Brother! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yup, me too, haven't seen a football, baseball, or Basketball game in 3 years
I never watched sports except for rare instances like going to a army vs navy academy boxing tournaments
Same here!
Get billionaires out of politics.
but all the people who end up in power are the billionaries...
@Fed Rai almost every politian are either million or billionares or at least very rich
@Fed Rai I guess you support Jeff Bezos profiting off of other people's suffering?
@Fed Rai can you name me a poor politian? in britain at least the labour party, meant to be the party for the working class, their leader is still a millionair. there are very few politians who are not extremly rich.
@Fed Rai you havent answered my question, can you name me a politian who is not rich?
You forgot Soccer (Football in other countries).
It is getting worse since 2020.
Yeah it is getting bad, but I do like the anti discrimination things they are doing. Like the non political things like punishing players and fans for things they do DURING the games. Unfortunately I feel this will also be used as a way to silence players opinions in the near future. Especially when they start equating anti-CRT statements with racism. I also think that China might not allow for anti china protests. Just look at Ozil
The moment politics enters educational,sports and healthcare we’re doomed
it already has friend
I guess we are doomed. Obama managed to do everyone of those things.
“The moment politics enters education” *glances at PragerU’s PREP program*
@@ConMan4 politics from both sides should be exempt from education both rightwing and leftwing (which currently left wing has an iron grip on the education just go on a campus and you'll likely see lgbtq, blm, etc everywhere)
You’re funny politics has always been in sports. It’s more like keep politics out of sports if I don’t agree with it.
Love how every example of politics not in sports were explicitly political
right lmfao
I thought hockey was the last sport I could watch but even they're starting to go down this route. They haven't got players kneeling during the anthem or a thing like that but The hockey News, which is a big hockey publication went left a few years back. I had to cancel my subscription I couldn't read it anymore.
Yep, I thought hockey would be my last hope. But, they knelt for the anthem and stood for Oh Canada.
@@pipepicasso8112 that is a problem, there is no evidence to suggest that Canada has less of a problem with racism than the USA, so if the players are going to kneel for the US national anthem they should kneel for the Canadian one.
If the players want to kneel or do something else to show their discontent with the system I don't care what these left-wing players think so long as they're willing to play Good Sports, and not let their political views affect how they play, where they play, and who they play, then I don't care.
That's not a surprise about the Hockey News. THN is based out of Canada, that's all you really need to know. The country is run a by a Castro loving idiot and they are still locked down for the most part. Canada has become a mouthpiece for Chinese propaganda in several sectors.
@@iceman2796 They made a big deal a few years ago because the Red Wings owner gave Trump a team jersey. Had a big article on how the NHL owners shouldn't get involved in politics, but conveniently forgot to complain about the Blackhawks presenting Obama with a team jersey. Can I just watch hockey for hockey?
Golf is the last one that hasn't turned to propaganda
All of this is why I just quit my job at the NBA!!
Lebron, is that you?
Conservatives: Get politics out of sports
Conservatives: LETS GO BRANDON!!
facts, these mfs claim that they hate politics in sports until an athlete has outspoken conservative views
When you realize the thing you once loved is no longer what it was, the best way to get it to snap back to its old self is to no longer give it any money. After all, 'get woke, go broke' still holds true today.
You mean bring politics into sports. What a great idea. Bring back what have been a big part of sports for decades.
Also, no "go woke, go broke" have never held true and never will.
@@HeadGodoftheGodCouncil I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
I used to love Hollywood movies until they went woke. I don't watch them anymore.
I used to like sports as a kid, granted I didn't understand much of it, until they went woke. I don't watch them anymore.
I used to like Marvel comic books but never had much money to spend on them, until they went woke. I no longer have an interest in them.
I could care less about people's skin save for if it was festering/unhealthy/not grooming properly, now they're constantly trying to push onto me that my skin color is wrong and I should feel bad.
To be honest, I have never saved so much money by no longer giving my money to the woke corporations, maybe now I can look forward to possibly retiring at a decent age.
@@HeadGodoftheGodCouncil Bud Light
@@klrdotorg Doing good
I want sports not politics, this is why I didn’t watch basketball. And now baseball.
You want sport but not politics. Chances are you wouldn't find sports without politics in any decade.
YES! I 100% AGREE WITH THE TITLE! COME ON YOU APOLITICAL SPURS! #Takingthekneeisapolitical
If you don’t mind me asking, what is your uncles name?
If you don’t mind me asking, what does “COMR” mean?
docs.google.com/document/d/1WW7m-ZQiFBOC6vIK6wwyo2_A87oGMLUTK2UuDfQ-wd0/edit?usp=sharing
politics in sports is always gonna happen. unchangeable. the athletes can create real change
The House of Lords kinda sucks now you might want you uncle to quit 😂
Not gonna happen, wake up and walk away
In addition to removing sports from Politics, the State must be separated from sports
Exactly, you can't say get politics out of sports where it has always been heavily influenced with the American image and patriotism
GET WOKE GET BROKE
“I’m suspicious of the ideologue who profits from his/her ideals.”
- Fernandes, Millor; Journalist, writer and humorist.
Lack of profit is not a panacea. Ideology is a more powerful motivator than money.
@@Bluuplanet not for LeBron: he doesn't care about the ideology as long as he can make money from it. He was holding a Malcolm X book in an interview as a prop, he clearly haven't read a word of that when he was asked about it.
Every comment has a dark side.
You forget, that 1995 Rugby World Cup was won on the back of food poisoning of the opposition.
Not such a good example to use.
So true, just look at baseball/football's drop in popularity vs. UFC.
Finally about damn time. Politica dont belong in sports. If anything sports gets us away from the drama of politics not in it
You know what, for the first time I agree with Prager U. We should keep politics out of sports and stop playing the national anthem. Sports should be about sports.
Stfu woke
A Cat doesn’t approve of Politics in Sports.
@@janpeke1948 A Cat is the cringe version of A Turtle
The NHL for the most part hasn’t caved thank god.
I'm a huge NHL fan. The NHL will fold like a tent in a Hurricane if push comes to shove. The NHL wants to remain neutral. The problem is the players will be outcasts with other sports if they don't go woke. The NHL canceled all their games after that scumbag with a knife got shot by the police in Kenosha. The NHL did it at the last second, they caved. The NHL staring next year has the same TV broadcasting partners as the NBA (ESPN and TNT/TBS). They are getting almost 700 million a season between the 2 broadcasters. Those are mega woke networks who fully embrace the cancel culture. The NHL will bow to whatever whims their masters tell them. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.
cuz 93 percent of its players are white lmao. So they have no reason to protest.
It’s not about politics, it’s about ethics. Ignoring racism isn’t “not being political”, it’s being part of the problem. Being anti-racist isn’t a political thing, it’s a moral thing. Everyone should be completely against racism.
talking about any social policy or the ethics of social policy....is politics
don't play semantic games you child
“Voter integrity bill” is a funny way to say “we lost because urban voters turned out, let’s make it harder next time”
No, it's about integrity. People need to believe the system is on the up and up. It's ridiculous to claim asking for a legal ID is too much to ask, or is in any way racist. But that's what the Left does.
It seems to me we are losing all the progress we have made on race relations over lies
I also believe it might be Intentional to decide us make us hate or at least not trust each other
It seems to be working and that scares me
That's the democrats fault, they lost control of their party to RADICALISUM, Marxist, Socialism, Communism etc. I recommend ALL DEMOCRATS DROP THEIR PARTY N GO INDEPENDENT OR REPUBLICAN.
@@gram6774 I did
It's not about race, it's about culture. Traditional values, morals, ethics, whatever you want to call it, are increasingly labeled as "white."
Politics can just take a hike from everything as far as I'm concerned
I will never forget the Miracle on Ice. Anyone who denies the power of sports to lift the spirits and bring people together should watch the movie based on that event.
I stopped caring about sports a long time ago. Don't buy Nike, Adidas or tickets or watch the games on TV they don't deserve the support or your money. Woke = Broke....
I don't see how saying that people shouldn't be racist, and that everyone should get equal pay for the same job regardless of colour is political. Last time I checked it was a basic human right
One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history is Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ proud stance on the podium during the 1968 Olympics. An overtly political message for civil rights, and yet something that is looked back on by most as a great moment in both the civil rights movement and in sports. At the time it was done there were those who hated it, the two were ostracised and received torrents of abuse and death threats. People will look back on the politics within sports now the same way most look back on that moment, and people will look back on those who oppose it with the same look we have for those who abused Smith and Carlos, with disdain.
This video made it seem like the POC didn't had to fight to become a professional player or how they still had to fight ever game to prove they are just as good as the other guys. Like you said there already politics in sports in the past to support the Civil Rights Movement, but doesn't talks about that in the video?!? or how there are also white Olympic competitors who also publicly supported the Civil Rights Movement but aren't as heavily punished by the Olympic Committee. This whole video doesn't at all portray all of the facts, and would make sense to people that doesn't know about the history.
If they want to make an argument about politics in sports and bring up past events, at least tell all of the facts to the viewers, instead of just cherry picking certain events to spread their false narrative.
The Premier League in England have swallowed this too. we are seeing the England team "take the knee" during the Euros tournament
Why mention the South African 1995 rugby World Cup victory when that is one of the purest stories of politics and sports melding together in history? If you look back and only see Mandela handing the trophy to Pienaar you might not see it, but the reason it was so significant is it was a visual representation of the shift away from the politics of apartheid, to the politics of inclusivity, it is a defining moment of the good that comes when the intersection of sports and politics is on full view
NFL NBA MLB NHL commissioners need to be replaced with commissioners that love their sport as much as Bud Selig loves the game of baseball
Bud Selig initially served as the acting commissioner, got all the hard work done, after all the hard work was done, then the Baseball teams elected as Baseball Commissioner.
"Bud Selig saved Baseball"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Selig
@Victor Murdock the NHL never caved. They put “End Racism” in the bubble arenas but never had “BLM” or anything else that was marxist in nature. “End racism” is a statement, not a movement.
@Victor Murdock Yeah my bad. I honestly just forgot about that. I still think they’ve been the least woke, but that’s still not an excuse for this behavior.
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"historically, sports has been great for politically unifying people against racism, and that's a good thing! it's time we stop that"
did I get your thesis right?
Far too late to save Sports
@Lucas Lombardo Where did I say I was Sane?
@Lucas Lombardo you need get in line if you want to hurt me some how I'm disabled with a brain injury so FAR FAR FAR FROM SANE.
We went from watching sports occasionally to never watching sports. I can’t say I miss it one bit.
I don't watch adults hired to play sports, more often than not they aren't even local talent.
Absolutely!!
Because of all this kneeling, BLM, Woke BS crap. I have dropped Direct TV. It’s been 4 yrs now since I dropped TV and I don’t miss it
Tell me, where’s the blm? I mean, I see anti racism and anti police brutality, but not blm. Could’ve sworn being anti racist and anti police brutality is commons sense 😂😂😂
@@hiimpeyton671 anti racism is an evil concept that tells people "if you aren't with us you're against us"
its not the same as non racism
also; police brutality isn't really a thing. its just social media highlights and upvotes the worst examples making people THINK there is a trend. negative news sells
politics should just be kept at politics, not sports, school etc.. dont shove an ideology down our throat
Easy enough. I have my remote and my cancellation notice to the NBA, MLB and other “woke joke” sports.
Ollie Robinson banned from cricket due to something he said when he was a teenager
“Get politics out of sports” sounds an awful like “silence people and take away their rights”
Sports are meant to bring everyone together. Bring politics into does the opposite.
@@NinjaDog9123 They still have the right to voice their opinion 🤡
@@Cdun_32 shouldn’t bring politics in front of millions of people that are watching when they just want to see a sports game. This is why NFL ratings have dropped. Voice your political opinion off the field.
@@NinjaDog9123All that garbage that you typed up sounds like taking away peoples rights 🤡
@@Cdun_32 it’s not about taking away people’s rights. There is a time and a place to voice your opinion. Politics should never be talked about in sports. That’s just how society is. If you do that you lose half of your fans and sports ratings drop.
does this include getting rid of the pledge of allegiance and fighter jet flyovers?
wait they got rid of those
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
OK then get rid of the national anthem. There are still plenty of military representation at professional sports games.
"Get Sports out of Politics!"
Me: I wonder why the US boycott Moscow 1980 Olympics? :/
geopolitics is more important than sports
Too late. I'm just out of sports. MLB, NFL NBA, all a waste of time. I'd rather watch PragerU. Now Formula 1 or IRL or NASCAR. Well, that's a different story.
@@janpeke1948 Well it's complicated. The short answer, however, I'm American so I lean towards Uralkali Haas. But, I feel if Gene replaced Guenther as manager and found another manager things might shape up for them. I feel they are overmanaged in the engineering portion and it's killing the ability/morale of the car techs. Manage it differently and they may stop having mechanical issues. The Chasis could use some work. It seem sot give some problem. Also, switch to Honda (Ferrari is contributing to some of the mechanical issues frankly) motors as well and I believe they could dominate.
I do however appreciate and tend to root for the underdog. In this case, it's been RedBull. When they dumped Renault for Honda, things really did turn around. I also see both Perez and Verstappen as a formable driving team that will certainly help RedBull.
See, complicated. 😉
@@janpeke1948 You gotta admit though, Mercedes-AMG has something good happening. All the pieces do fit together for them and have for a while. How long will that last is the question?
I hate sports now. I have been a huge college football fan. Now I can hardly stand to think about it. Forget NBA, NFL, MLB - all dead to me.
When Bob Costas first did his gun control commentary during a football game, my reaction was "shut the hell up and do your job of commenting on the game". If people wanted to listen to political/social commentary, they wouldn't be watching a football game. These athletes and commentators, as well as the team owners and each sports regulating body need to realize that people watch sports to be entertained. The minute they stop focusing on entertaining, they have stopped doing their jobs. Besides, we have youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. to force feed us the approved political/social crap 24/7.
I remember that too. The next year, he chimed in on the Redskins name. And the lefties in the sports media have only gotten louder.
I’m not a big sports guy, but I defiantly wanna see this.
Definitely head ass
@@crossedout9461 No he will watch it defiantly all his friends told him no don't watch it but in an act of defiance he watches it anyway
@@fugglepik9763 damn he’s a true rebel
Preach it PragerU!
Standing for the flag is politics in sports. The flag represents a country that is run by a government that is also political.
NBA rating went up when LBJ's team got eliminated from playoff. That says something..😄
As a 76ers fan I can't even hear about sports right now
"Get Politics Out of Sports" *Talks about how it always was in sports and always was political*
I played and coached football in college about 20 years ago. I didn't watch a single down of the NFL last year. Haven't watched one pitch of the MLB season so far. I didn't even know my hometown Suns had made the playoffs until they were in the Conference Finals. I am angry that politics has ripped the joy out of sports that used to be such a huge part of my life.
oh boo hoo u can’t watch sports anymore because the players don’t have opinions that you don’t like 🥺🥺
Fun fact: A study found that people, when left to their own devices, would group by skin color. However, when giving people shirts of different colors they grouped by the color of their shirt.
We're all green.
Politics are in everything, if you are against something just cause it has different politics then you, you need to grow up
I am not opposed to diversity of thought, but I am opposed to outright lies. An example is when LeBron James says cops casually choose to hunt black people down, I am against it because it is not only false, but asinine. Statistics say a black person is far more likely to die at the hands of another black person many times over before a police officer would.
@@arklave that’s totally unrelated though. Cops killing black people is a fact that happens over and over again, it wouldn’t matter if more black people die of a heart attack for example, the two are totally unrelated
@@arklave that was an unbelievably racist comment and I hope you know that
@@joshuaklein8465 Facts don't care about your feelings. It is a fact that cops kill people in general. The reality is more white people die at the hands of police than black people. The media just highlights scenarios that only progress the narrative.
So if it's such a racist thing to say then look up the stats on how many black people have been gunned down by cops in the past couple years. Then take a look at each individual situation and how many times the "victim" brought it upon themselves. A prime example is Rayshard Brooks who never would have escalated to the point it did if he just complied. Then once you do that look up black homicide in just one major city like Chicago for a single year. It's like focusing on a pin prick when a limb has been amputated elseware, they aren't even close. So how is that racist?
@@joshuaklein8465 typical lefty ducking out once the facts drop.
More importantly: Stop treating politics like a sport.
Sports as a TV pastime is essentially finished. People have outgrown it. Coming that with the competition from the internet and it is truly over for professional sports.
I used to watch Nascar with my dad almost every Sunday, and go to races in person if they were close. We both completely lost interest after both the media and Nascar itself labeled the fanbase as racist after the Bubba Wallace hoax. The sport was already suffering issues before then, but politics put the nail in the coffin.
Bubba wallace didn't mean to do it bud. I saw the pic it did look a lot like a noose just saying. Not saying i believe it though.
How in the world do you say Keep Politics out of Sports and use the Rugby World Cup as examples?
For years South Africa wasn't allowed to play in the Rugby World Cup because of Politics and that was a very real reason why political opinion changed in SA during apartheid.
You can't eat your cake and have it too PragerU. Maybe if you only used other examples like Olympic boycotts (that didn't work okay) but you literally used the most famous Politics in Sports helped Politics example ever.
"we should pull politics out of sports" then goes on to list good political movements that spawned from sports
That's PreagerU for you
Nah! sports just being sport then those political moments and politicians are inspired by sports and make a statement. Now instead of sports inspire politic, it is politic that inspire sports.
Myth #1 Glenn Morris was the 1936 Olympic star , not Jesse Owens or anyone else.I’m also pretty sure Germany took most of the gold .And Owen’s said he was treated like a Prince in Germany making it all the difficult to come back to America.
Can't believe they praised communist South Africa and the terrorist bomber Nelson Mandela too. These "conservatives " have their own myths apparently too 🙄
"Get Politics Out of Sports"
*Proceeds to list off two events which had extreme geopolitical tension surrounding them to make your point*
Removing politics from sports also means removing the flag, national anthem, and other state rituals from sports. It goes both ways.
National anthem is not politics
It's state worship, which is easy to pinpoint on a political compass.
@@rodgermurphy5721 "Things I agree with are non-political" - Conservatives with literally zero ability to think critically
Sounds like a plan tbf. We need the flags though, it’s an easy identifier for what country someone or some team came from.
@@mylittledashie7419 I'm black so according to you to stupid ro even get photo ID
you really think that the national anthem at every sports isn't political? that it only becomes political when someone doesn't pay reverence to a song glorifying a country? if i were to go to a game and when the national anthem is blaring i pull out a boombox and try to over power it with the Dutch anthem would that not be a political move? if yes, why? after all, it's just the national anthem. this is just denying that what do is equally political so you can accuse others of making everything political. honestly it shows you think very little of your supporters, assuming they don't understand that you're pulling a fast on on them.
but i'm sure that this reply will also be deleted. how else will you maintain an echo chamber?
Mixing sports and politics has done more harm than good. ESPN and NFL Network need to back off the politics.
Also, those who scream "free speech" over Kaep refuse to do the same for conservatives who are wrongfully cancelled.
This fan has voted with his feet. I was forcibly reminded of the fact that the guys of prime athletic age are millenials. No more millenial-watching for me. They can pound salt.
I’m guessing it’s either going to be Clay Travis or Jason Whitlock
Both if we are lucky! How awesome would it be to have an OutKick reunion on PragerU?
@@DMacLean15 well looks like it’s jason
Politics out of sports? Stop singing the anthem at sporting events.
B-but we’re CONSERVatives. We don’t like change!
national anthem is the basis of civilization. its beneath politics . national unity is not politics
Thank you Mr. Whitlock. True. Leave politics out of sports! I never watch pro sports anymore. And I refuse to purchase Nike products as well.
I gave up on the NFL when they had BLM on week one's pregame. Especially after they sided with Antifa during those "peaceful protests" in the Summer.
I agree people watch sports to escape the political stuff
I feel sorry for those that don't have an open mind and see this
Lol whatever that means
You’re just trying to ridicule people you don’t agree with because you think they don’t have an open mind. But I wonder if you have heard any counter arguments. I say political expression in sports is inevitable. It’s freedom of speech. Firing athletes that exercise their freedom of speech every time and you’ll be left with a team that you know nothing about and can’t identify with. Where is the fun in that? Did people get such thin skin that we can’t tolerate someone protesting actual problems in our society? Just because they did it on the platform that you think is inappropriate?
It sucks that millions people have to stop watching the sports they love because of sports integrating politics into itself. It’s not that people don’t watch sports because they disagree with them politically, it’s because they don’t want to see politics at all on that platform.
NO to politics and activism in sports.
Test your crowd is okay with anti-Biden chants being sung at sports? 🤨
PU !!!
I watch sports because I wanna watch the competition of which is the best team, not to be schooled and lectured about why I’m an irredeemable POS for wrongthink. It’s not only the American Big Four either, but this pandemic has also spread across the Atlantic and infected European sports as well. I’m looking at you, EPL.
Love how they just basically admitted caring about black people is not right wing
Ah yes lol the great equalizer, when the NBA and NFL has 5 times the national average of one specific race.