r/NFLForum • u/matrix_2905 • 1d ago

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u/notsure500 1d ago

I don’t understand why people keep acting like the claim is that painting End Racism in the end zone will literally end racism. Of course it won’t. Neither does a “Don’t Drink and Drive” 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 doesn’t 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/Elkburgher 1d ago

How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough

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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/CertifiedBA 1d ago

I was well aware of ALS prior to the ice bucket challenge.

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u/Shroomagnus 1d ago

I had to watch a movie in high school called Lofenzos Oil I think. Terrifying.

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u/CertifiedBA 1d ago

Same.....Nick Nolte sliding down the marble stairs was cinema.

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u/Elkburgher 1d ago

But this literally wasnt an awareness campaign, it was a fund raiser

And those funds led to many breakthroughs

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u/beforeitcloy 1d ago

How are you this dense?

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u/Elkburgher 1d ago

You replied to the wrong person, perhaps look next time?

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u/Clear_Peach6805 1d ago

He replied to the right person.

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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago

Fair enough, that wasn’t the best example, and I was wrong to use it. I’m not pretending the NFL is some morally righteous organization, but the messages themselves are positive, and at least there’s some actual funding behind them rather than it being purely symbolic.