The politics of professional athletes are a clear reflection of league demographics.

  • Denjin@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    You don’t have to subscribe to the politics to enjoy watching the sport.

    It’s not just hockey, pretty much any highly paid sport will have the players skew to the right politically. Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Pete Sampras, Don King, Arnold Palmer, Shaquille O’Neal, Dennis Rodman, and many many others.

    You’d pretty much have to stop watching all sport to avoid MAGAs.

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      2 hours ago

      I really did stop watching all sports because of it. And it’s not skewing to the right anymore, it’s people supporting a child rapist administration.

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      sports is one of the cornerstones to the american dream illusion, which is used (in combination with other pillars) to keep americans dumb and compliant while their oligarchs squeeze them for every last $ they can.

      bread and circuses

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        It really is, I’ll watch PL still but dropping out on nhl and mlb has only helped my mental health. The amount of commercials constantly blasted at you makes it feel like psychological warfare