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re: Cancelled my MLB.TV subscription today
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:40 pm to diddyMax
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:40 pm to diddyMax
It's interesting because this site has been saying "vote with your wallet" regarding not visiting businesses that have been too PC (gillette, target, now MLB, etc.) and yet here we have the OP getting bitched at for stating why he won't support a business any longer
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Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:40 pm to WDE24
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Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:42 pm to CuseTiger
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It's interesting because this site has been saying "vote with your wallet" regarding not visiting businesses that have been too PC (gillette, target, now MLB, etc.) and yet here we have the OP getting bitched at for stating why he won't support a business any longer
Well he’s got 50 upvotes
I’d imagine he has support from the same people you’re talking about
I’m the guy that likes Chic Fil A and Ben & Jerry’s and football despite what the people who play/work there think and do in their free time.
Crazy, I know
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:42 pm to CuseTiger
It’s the need to announce it that people are making fun of because it’s just annoying virtue signaling, which I thought we all hated, no?
Boycott whoever you want. Just don’t go begging for a pat on the back from strangers by telling everyone.
Nobody fricking cares.
Boycott whoever you want. Just don’t go begging for a pat on the back from strangers by telling everyone.
Nobody fricking cares.
This post was edited on 7/23/20 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:43 pm to diddyMax
I cancelled mine on Tuesday. Netflix is next.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:44 pm to zacata88
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enslaving black people
every race and people of the planet has been enslaved at some point in history.
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blatant violation of basic human rights
what basic human rights are being violated right here, right now in the U.S.?
No one in the U.S. in 2020 is oppressed.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:44 pm to diddyMax
Snowflake
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:45 pm to diddyMax
Just watch the game from a mirror and you'll be good
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:46 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I’m the guy that likes Chic Fil A and Ben & Jerry’s
Those companies have founders/owners that are political....but neither of those companies bombards you with their support for a group associated with domestic terrorists, antisemitism, or Marxism.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:47 pm to NoHoTiger
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what basic human rights are being violated right here, right now in the U.S.?
I mean, 7 of the 10 highest paid athletes in this country are minorities....
Patrick Mahomes Football $503 million
Mike Trout Baseball $426 million
Canelo Álvarez Boxing $365 million
Mookie Betts Baseball $365 million
Bryce Harper Baseball $330 million
Giancarlo Stanton Baseball $325 million
Gerrit Cole Baseball $324 million
Manny Machado Baseball $300 million
Nolan Arenado Baseball $260 million
Miguel Cabrera Baseball $248 million
This post was edited on 7/23/20 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:48 pm to Salmon
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Boycott whoever you want. Just don’t go begging for a pat on the back from strangers by telling everyone.
Good call, this is the way things should be. But this is the OT so i doubt that will ever happen here
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:49 pm to diddyMax
Here's my take dude -
Cancelling everything you like because of the woke movement will leave you pretty bored and unhappy. But unlike some, I do think there comes a point where you can't in good conscience support something that is destructive and in bad faith.
I suspect that is not the case with MLB. If I was a Red Sox fan I wouldn't be happy, but MLB trying to check a box by putting a slogan on mounds for one weekend might be a fair trade for moving past this "movement" in a sport that probably doesn't have a lot of adherents involved. Contrast it with NFL or NBA, where I do think "getting past it" is going to be harder.
I think we need more people who are unwilling to overlook the small appeasements because you simply can't appease the mob. I don't see this as falling into that category. Traditionally, I recognize that corporate culture makes moves like this a lot to get on with their business, and that may be what this is (hopefully). Unfortunately there is a growing trend of irrational behavior by corporations (virtue signaling coming before profit-centered motives), but we'll have to see if MLB can avoid that.
Cancelling everything you like because of the woke movement will leave you pretty bored and unhappy. But unlike some, I do think there comes a point where you can't in good conscience support something that is destructive and in bad faith.
I suspect that is not the case with MLB. If I was a Red Sox fan I wouldn't be happy, but MLB trying to check a box by putting a slogan on mounds for one weekend might be a fair trade for moving past this "movement" in a sport that probably doesn't have a lot of adherents involved. Contrast it with NFL or NBA, where I do think "getting past it" is going to be harder.
I think we need more people who are unwilling to overlook the small appeasements because you simply can't appease the mob. I don't see this as falling into that category. Traditionally, I recognize that corporate culture makes moves like this a lot to get on with their business, and that may be what this is (hopefully). Unfortunately there is a growing trend of irrational behavior by corporations (virtue signaling coming before profit-centered motives), but we'll have to see if MLB can avoid that.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:50 pm to zacata88
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The fear runs so deep that you all would rather turn from the things you would otherwise love and then have to run to all of your other uneducated buddies to look a big man making a statement.
No, but still a competent generalization. The fact is that I would happily support a group that showed evidence that they were working to affect true change and improve the black community. BLM ain’t it. In my opinion, they’ve done more harm to the movement than good. They’ve allowed their group to be co-opted by the likes of Antifa without a hint of condemnation of that group’s actions from them.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:50 pm to diddyMax
Can now add MLB to the NFL and the NBA
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:50 pm to member12
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I mean, 7 of the 10 highest paid athletes in this country are minorities....
Patrick Mahomes Football $503 million
Mike Trout Baseball $426 million
Canelo Álvarez Boxing $365 million
Mookie Betts Baseball $365 million
Bryce Harper Baseball $330 million
Giancarlo Stanton Baseball $325 million
Gerrit Cole Baseball $324 million
Manny Machado Baseball $300 million
Nolan Arenado Baseball $260 million
Miguel Cabrera Baseball $248 million
You can oppress the hell out of me for that kind of money
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:53 pm to USMEagles
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Is there a "BLM organization?"
I honestly don't know. It started out as a simple statement, and then I started seeing people claiming to be "leader of the Greater Baltimore BLM Chapter, Inc." or whatever. But I still don't know if there's a single organization, or group of organizations who've definitively banded together, that can call itself "BLM."
Well you're in luck, because today you will learn those things.
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Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
Here you can ready the history, (or 'Herstory' as they put it)
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The project is now a member-led global network of more than 40 chapters. Our members organize and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:54 pm to diddyMax
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Having MLB put Black Lives Matter on every mound on opening day is the final straw. If I continue to watch, then I am complicit.
I was really looking forward to this season. Feels bad man.
100% same feelings for me. I hate to be put in a position to make these decisions but I feel like these leagues keep shitting on me and forcing this down my throat.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:55 pm to Box Geauxrilla
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a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada
They claim to be grassroots, but they have backers with deep wallets.
Posted on 7/23/20 at 12:56 pm to diddyMax
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Most of the figs on here criticizing my decision have never worn the uniform, saluted the flag or seen their brothers draped in it. So frick right off.
I wasn't doing this to virtue signal, merely lament the fact that a sport I enjoyed watching from childhood into adulthood was ruined.
I wear the uniform now. And you're still an idiot...i don't precisely agree or disagree with the "movement" and it will never affect me enough where I have to sacrifice my happiness or enjoyment. If I decided to boycott everything i disagreed with there will be nothing left. There are a lot of big corps/orgs that im not profound of, but I am grown up to know how block that out and move on with my life regardless
and not attempt to broadcast how a something as small as a sport is negatively impacting my life so much.
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