Jason Whitlock’s post on Outkick.com about the NFL’s season opener says it all. It can be found here.
Here’s the opening paragraph from today’s Daily Mail on the NFL’s opening night of the 2020 season:
“Kansas City Chiefs fans booed a moment of silence aimed at promoting racial justice, the Houston Texans remained in the locker room during the Star-Spangled Banner, and the reigning Super Bowl champions lined up for a singing of ‘the black national anthem’ on Thursday night as the NFL opened its 2020 campaign under dramatically different circumstances than any other season in league history.”
I didn’t watch the game since I don’t have a taste for mixing left-wing politics with athletics. Make no mistake about it, the whole thing legitimized a left-wing agenda.
In the write-ups on the game, a ritualized justification for the politicized antics at the start of the game hovered around the words of “unity” and “solidarity”. What nonsense! Unity and solidarity for what? The lexicon is cover for the development of a group mind, the kind of group mind found in past and present ideologized tyrannies. Do places like Berlin, Moscow, Havana, and Pyongyang remind you of anything?
The words cover a pack of monstrous ideas, the kind of ideas that insult the mind. “Systemic racism” is inherently improvable but politically useful in a power grab. So were Marx’s “worker alienation”, Galton’s “genetic determinism”, Lenin’s “revolutionary theory”, National Socialist “racial inferiority”, and the like. Such words appeal to the worst in us, and not surprisingly bring out the worst in our behavior. Look at our college campuses and urban conflagrations. Disgusting!
The catch-words remind us of humanity’s past sins while ignoring how our political legacy paved the way for enormous betterment of all people. What will they replace it with, an energized central government with them in the catbird seat? The spectacle was appalling. It deserved to be booed, and I hope the ratings are terrible.
Goodbye NFL. You have managed to spoil a once good thing.
RogerG