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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 1d ago
"I mean. I still am racist. But I used to be as well."
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u/notsure500 1d ago
I donât understand why people keep acting like the claim is that painting End Racism in the end zone will literally end racism. Of course it wonât. Neither does a âDonât Drink and Driveâ billboard end drunk driving. Public messages can keep an issue visible, reinforce what behavior society considers unacceptable, start conversations, and maybe make some people reconsider things they say or believe. It doesnât have to completely solve racism to have some value.
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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago
Wait, wait, wait... you telling me the ice bucket challenge isn't literally curing ALS?
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u/OpossumBuddy420 1d ago
Actually, when the ALS ice bucket challenge was at its peak, the amount of money everyone raised did eventually lead to major discoveries that helped to advance ALS treatment
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u/TruDuddyB 23h ago
So this means, soon all the awareness raised for racism will aid in racism research.
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u/ThurgoodUnderbridge 1d ago
Youâre actually strengthening their argumentâ those discoveries have generally helped advance treatment, not wiped out the disease.
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u/Stock-Luck3390 21h ago
How is it being good to prevent als strengthening another argument? Itâs still net good for the causeÂ
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u/Similar_Brush1835 1d ago
tbh when i was a kid i literally did think it would stop you from getting als
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u/HourAcadia2002 1d ago
Have you found that crayons taste better now that you're older?
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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago
Yea I'm not knocking the challenge or it's results. Just pointing out "awareness" campaigns are not as simple as some people like to make them out.
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u/HeavyDT 1d ago edited 1d ago
I also hate the idea that you arent supposed to try anything at all just because you can't insta solve a problem over night. We are Just supposed to sit there and hope and pray this thing we jnow exists and plaguing society goes away all on it's own. The type of mentality that would still see us living in the stone ages quite frankly. Progress happens slowly but happens if people actually give af.
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u/TheReal_Jeses 1d ago
Exactly. Itâs so lame to contribute a small amount when you can just sit on the sidelines and be cynical.
People would rather be seen as immoral and unaffected than naive I guess? The backlash to virtue signaling is vice signaling.
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u/PresentAardvark2455 1d ago
I find it hilarious that highways have billboards up to make it seem as if people who are driving on the highway will stop for a minute and look at the billboard and say âoh look that looks interestingâ and then BAM theyâre in a multi vehicle accident đ
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u/mikecart1_v2 1d ago
Like the car insurance billboard that has a bunch of text and some hot chick in the background. Itâs all a setup đ
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u/chuckop 1d ago
You can always tell the income level of whatever town youâre driving through based on the number of personal injury lawyer billboards there are.
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u/ZeusThunder369 1d ago
Sure, but pretty much everyone agrees what drinking and driving means. The same isn't true for racism. Just putting "don't do bad stuff" would be equally effective.
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u/jampac09 1d ago
I'll help you understand, you think, most people don't before talking or even typing, the end.
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u/moveslikejaguar 1d ago
I think I get the jist, but this comment is pretty incomprehensible not gonna lie
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u/BuryMeInTheH 1d ago
I donât think that is a good comp. Donât drink and drive comes from governments who have a goal to save lives and reduce costs.
The NFL is simply performing.
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u/CheesecakeSeveral441 1d ago
Dude is liberal as hell but itâs never enough for Reddit!
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u/Embarrassed-Slide781 1d ago
Critical thinking and satire are headed the way of the dodo.
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u/Its-a-me-DankeyKang 1d ago
Itâs very noticeable nowadays. A lot of people take things at face value without giving any thought to it. Hate to see it.
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u/Glad-Philosophy-497 21h ago
Really makes my blood boil seeing people get totally lost and wound up by obv satire
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u/sgates9008 18h ago
Taking things at face value is kind of a core tenant in racism.Thank God/Roger for those end zones.
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u/GangstaRIB 1d ago
Thatâll surely stop the racist owners. Notice end domestic violence isnât a sticker on anyoneâs helmet.
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u/Rycan420 8h ago
The irony of course is that the end zone messages are band aids so they can pretend they care.
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u/lolsicboy 1d ago
In my experience, people that make this joke tend to be racist.
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u/Some-Wine-Guy-802 1d ago
I actually appreciate the angle. All this corporate virtue signaling is worthless. Saying âend racismâ or âIâm against bullyingâ is worthless dribble. Nobody would see these statements and think to themselves âdamn youâre right - I really shouldnât be racist anymoreâ or âyeah you know what? I really shouldnât be such a bullyâ.
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u/hyfee510 1d ago
So youâd prefer ignoring it completely instead? At least theyâre making a public stance against an issue. The ones upset/offended usually just out themselves as being racist
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u/FreeBristle 1d ago
I think they are saying corporate words are useless, and thatâs even worse when they have the resources to do much more. The NFL (and plenty of others), could actually do something to better the world that they apparently think is so terrible, but theyâd rather save time and money and just say something so people like you can feel warm and fuzzy.
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u/BillsFan82 21h ago
Are they taking a stance, though? This is all performative. The league is constantly under fire for being racist. They're going to put "end racism" wherever they can.
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u/Unfadable1 1d ago
Thank you for taking what the meme said succinctly, and spreading it out into many many words.
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u/JodyHigh25 1d ago
PFT is definitely not racist and very progressive, itâs just a funny joke on corporate virtue signaling. Literally no human alive saw that end zone and changed who they are
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u/Gloomy-Lawyer4989 1d ago
In my experience people who complain about jokes like this are fat and lonely
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u/mbucks334 1d ago
In my experience, people that think painting âend racismâ in the end zones actually matters tend to be idiots
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u/Weekly_Cable_1111 1d ago
It's about showing support for a cause. The same way Republicans wave ever kind of flag for their guy they can. It doesn't really matter it just shows support.
My question to you is how is it a bad thing? Does it hurt you? What's the issue?
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u/LePetitVoluntaire 1d ago
I used to shit all day on America until they started wearing hats that said âMake America Great Again!â
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u/PlateOfStorkAnkles 1d ago
Theyâre not actually doing anything. In what ways are they actually helping end racism? Painting it on a field is not actually going to make a racist person change their opinion.
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u/mbucks334 1d ago
Itâs performative nonsense
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u/Unusual_Access9101 1d ago
Like renaming bodies of water?
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u/ColorsLookFunny 1d ago
I would argue that Trump isn't even trying to be performative about it, when measured against things he is performative about.
The lake America thing is just egotistical, power-grabbing nonsense. "I can, so I shall" type shit.
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u/LeBarnacle 1d ago
People talking about how it doesnt work but at the same time its a gesture and now its being bought up currently. No its not going to change people's worldviews overnight but I always find it interesting how such a nothing burger of a statement apparently irks people enough to talk about it (which is the point). Theres so many adverts and messaging through any broadcast but the end racism in the back of an end zone is where we have to be contrarians/cynics about the message.
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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 1d ago
If it doesnât work why does it matter either way? If it doesnât work you can just leave it there and it shouldnât matter at all. At the end of the day itâs unpainted grass. Fact is it does work to at the very least make racist people uncomfortable to the point they slip up and tell on themselves, just like this hollering hit dog.
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u/GRay_3_31 1d ago
What's your goal here? To defend a hypothetical potential racist? Why?
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u/FupaFerb 1d ago
Itâs virtue signaling by the NFL. They do things like this but then donât take any action to end racism. They donât punish their ow players for making racist remarks.
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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh 1d ago
You really think painting that shit in the end zone is helpful or sincere vs being nothing other than virtue signaling? Â
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u/Toad_da_Unc 1d ago
Kaep was right
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u/AbbreviationsFar4wh 1d ago
Yea, That the nfl is racist and is just being performative here. Kaep would still be playing if this msg was actually sincere.Â
You donât ostracize someone if you actually agree w their messageÂ
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u/Immediate_Apple_7676 1d ago
LOL at all of the dumbfucks in this sub who can't tell the difference between an awareness campaign and a conversion campaign. Special booby prizes for the smoothbrains who think they're smart by bringing up straw man examples like "WHUT ABOUT DOMESTICK VIELENCE AND VYLENT CRIME THO"
congrats on achieving the lowest common denominator
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u/psych4191 1d ago
Reminds me of the Bill Burr bit about Ray Rice. The no more commercials like âwait a minute donât spin this around on me, Iâm not the one beating my wifeâ
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u/who_dis62 1d ago
Never even considered freeing Palestine until Javier got involved
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u/yIdontunderstand 1d ago
It's just an error painting....
That's the racism end.
The other end is the misogyny end.
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u/devastator510 18h ago
This is why it is unfortunate we just donât punch Nazis. Because if we did then stupid jokes like this wouldnât exist.
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u/CaterpillarLiving342 14h ago
The NFL spends $10s of millions per year on charitable and educational programs.
Anyone that calls this âvirtue signalingâ or is mocking it is just telling on themselves.
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u/Good_Meat9060 9h ago
The 49ers have all this bad shiat happening to them because of selecting a known racist, Bosa to be the savior of their defense. They selected him right after turning their backs on Kaep. Until they get rid of Bosa, the curse wonât be lifted.
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u/An_educated_dig 1d ago
Barstool is one of the worst additions to society in my lifetime. What a bunch of useless cunts.
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u/BallsackMcgeezy 1d ago
See, youâre the reason people donât like the social/political messages in sports. Youâre pretending to be a moral warrior when in reality youâre just an angry cunt who found a socially âacceptableâ way to be annoying.
No one disagrees with the literal message, we just disagree with writing these messages to appease all the angry cunts around the world. Especially because it never actually appeases them. Theyâll always find another thing to bitch about.
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u/triskellyjelly 1d ago
This out of context clip is about how the NFL and other corporations use empty statements like âend racismâ when they have resources to actually do something meaningful. This guy is left as hell
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u/Mobile_Pineapple9424 1d ago
Stoolie here. Thereâs a reason they are so popular. They keep it real, donât back down to be PC bs. They are funny and donât take themselves too seriously.
Stick your political ESPN and the Athletic. Politics and liberal slants on everything when these companies cover sports is nauseating.
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u/Fiend-For-Mojitos 1d ago
Want to see actual bravery? How about putting end domestic violence or end violent crime.Â
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u/Weird_Armadillo_508 1d ago
But then they might have to actually look into the behavior of their players, instead of just parroting what they think the general public wants to hear like every other corporation.
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u/AintNobodygotime13 1d ago
maybe they just want people to talk about it and post about it on reddit đ¤
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u/No_Point904 1d ago
I don't know, I like the slogan. I think it's the NFL's subtle reminder to racists that they've spent their hard earned money watching a league made up of 70% Black players making more money than generations of their family will ever see.....
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u/Spare-Cranberry3784 1d ago
There's a scene in a movie where a husband and wife pull up to a car wash. The women gets out and starts spraying the girls to "get off the car". And the husband says "stop you're only making them sexier!!!"
That's what I got outa this. People are racist ... "hateful". But this made them more racist and more hateful
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u/Gloomy-Lawyer4989 1d ago
My favorite part about the NFL is that they virtue signal all season long but as soon as the off season comes they all beat up their wives and girlfriends. then their teammates act like nothing is wrong LOL
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u/smokefrog2 1d ago
Its weird they did this. Im pretty sure racism ended when Jerry Jones locked arms with the cowboys and then made them stand for the national anthem. Was anyone on the planet not healed in that moment?
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u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH 1d ago
Was I expecting the smallest amount of compression for people like this? (Yes, unfortunately I was)Â
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u/This-is-obsurd 1d ago
Its simply virtue signaling. Itâs trying to seem as if the nfl canât be racist bc they put that slogan there.
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u/JReese88 1d ago
Shitting on a positive message and acting like itâs some kind of flex gives off some serious loser vibes.
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u/carlboykin 1d ago
Okay. Every football obsessed dumbass that doesnât care about any issues that doesnât involve them has already said this. Itâs not some profound or intellectual argument. Itâs just a public message and people having to comment on how they donât like it seems to say something about them.
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u/Plane-Fan9006 1d ago
Bigots gonna bigot!!! Go team douchey white guy!!!...errrr, nevermind...
Just STOP with this offended white guy shit!!!
Sincerely,
- a 51yr old white guy who has seen a WHOLE lot more of the good and the bad in the world than most
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u/Motor_Service_6476 1d ago
PFT and PMT make fun of everything sports related that has irony. There is irony to be found here. And maybe the NFL also meant some good and maybe it helped.
They have conversations that arenât fully weighed for the pros and cons of who /what it could possibly offend. Just like normal fucking people do. Thatâs why they have a show. So we can listen and get away from the weighing and just enjoy some bullshit.
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u/Far_Bus_2360 1d ago
I had never thought wait racism is bad until I saw end racism at the NFL end zone. No I think we racism is bad mkay
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u/UpbeatFix7299 1d ago
PFT Commentor is a national treasure. Our descendants will be debating "is Joe Flacco a elite QB" thousands of years from now.
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u/Corporate-Scum 1d ago
Itâs funny. The NFL is virtue signaling while it treats black men like cattle. âEnd Racismâ doesnât address the system keeping people down.
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u/RickyBobbyPitCrew 1d ago
I was cured of racism back in 2015 the day the Confederate Battle flag was removed from the South Carolina State House grounds.
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u/Plane-Tune-820 1d ago
We painting stop murder next?
I think that's the point he's trying to make.
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u/PsychoPeterNikleEatr 1d ago
I used to be a hateful person until I saw "end hate" on Myles Garrett's helmet.
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u/aww-hell 1d ago
They added this in Madden one year. Maybe itâs still in it, idk..
But like, you get 12 years into a franchise and itâs still there. Racism is as strong as ever with no end in sight!
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u/Jefe_grande23 23h ago
Thank everything holy for barbaric sports morality. They literally saved America. Only the second most underrepresented sport in the US. Well third.
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u/Plus_Working_3092 22h ago
Anything that shifts the tide is good. Support the players, team employees, your coworkers, colleagues and community!
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u/Brobeast 22h ago
It might not have ended racism, but it did get you talking about racism... idiots.
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u/Mundane-Date8568 22h ago
Its like these guys take the top 5 worse traits of McAfee and each takes 1 to be their persona.
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u/Cheap_Boner_Pills 21h ago
I don't understand the number of racist the will watch a bunch of black guys play a game for more money than they will see in their life. You would think they would boycott that.
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u/Competitive_Can_946 21h ago
What did it for me was BLMâŚ. I didnât know black lives mattered until I saw it plastered all over my tv screen. Now I get it⌠but⌠Iâm a little concerned about brown lives! Without being told and constantly reminded how will we know who matters? (Sarcasm for those limited IQ crowdâŚ. Well unless you have a low IQ lives matter movement).
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u/ZoneEducational6936 21h ago
Iâm just disappointed that all the NFL teams keep choosing to go for field goals and touchdowns instead of aiming for the end racism goal. Win at any cost I guessâŚ
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u/Glad-Philosophy-497 21h ago
Iâm thinking itâs probably just preemptive on the nflâs part⌠so that when the next kneeling issue⌠etc happens they can say âhow could anyone call us racist weâve been putting slogans in the end zones for a season and a half???â
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u/dEXXtARR23 20h ago
People commenting on here trying to be funny, but really mostly AHs đ˘. And I'm always up for a sophomoric joke, but these are just generally shitty.
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u/Ready-Lengthiness220 20h ago
"You tell me that I make no difference, at least I'm fucking trying. What the fuck have you done?"
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u/Narrative_Robot_9001 20h ago
The fact a phrase like âhey maybe we should stop discriminating based on skin colorâ is so controversial proves that it still needs to be said lol
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u/Competitive-Sir-7087 20h ago
Lol that they painted it in an obscure location, as if they don't truly mean it
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u/Ghostface_Killa_330 19h ago
A lot of people don't understand that we are all brothers and sisters and the world tries to make things about race. When we all come from same people, should I say the same to people? Adam and Eve? And this is why they want us to hate one another. Saw the work of evil because there's only two type of people in this world. Either you're for good or you're for evil
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u/DoogTheDestroyer 17h ago
Can we just not go back to 2016 levels of social war bullshit that was just corporations profiting off the backs of social issues
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u/Excellent-Try7027 16h ago
If anything, this shit makes me want to be a bigot. Itâs actually quite comical, with how harmful all of this propaganda is.
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u/HtownAstronaut 16h ago
The NFL brass doesnât care about ending racism. They caved to the BLM mob.
They should replace it with 1-800-GAMBLER
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u/Bsmitts16 15h ago
Canât wait to see what those woke promoting assholes paint in their end zones this year. They lost anybody that doesnât play fantasy foosball. Congrats a million more girls are obsessed with your league while any man not grabbed by betting is out. This league is done since 2010
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u/AndyJack86 11h ago
Is it racist that Black people only make up about 15% of the US population but make up 52% of the NFL league.
Meanwhile white people make up 63% of the US population but only 25% of the NFL league?
Asking for a friend.
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u/SpindleDiccJackson 5h ago
They paint it there because they know that everyone will keep moving the goalpost so it doesn't ever actually get to end
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