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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2677169, member: 8028"] Can you be any more presumptuous? You literally think that you've got things so figured out that you can tell me what affects my enjoyment. Incredible lack of perspective. Your response is very typical of the intellectual laziness that has overwhelmed this country. You don't like the fact that I don't like what you like, so I must have X [evil] opinion or be lying. Your viewpoint is simply - if you agree with the goal of the protests, you support the protests, else you don't believe in the goal, and you are a racist. Simple, easy, and wrong. I don't want to hear about any politics from my entertainment venues. Not mine, not any. What bugs you Ern, is you're the kind of person who likes to ram your opinions down everybody's throat because you're so cock-sure that you've got it all figured out and that anybody who doesn't agree with you is a trailer-dwelling racist, homophobic ogre. You're being lazy. It's what defines your rants on here. I think the point being expressed by the NFL players is, like most points, based on some truth. Certainly there is (and always will be) racism, and certainly that racism does, often, manifest itself in police abuse (or murder) of young black men. That's the truth, and it should be openly discussed and mitigating solutions sought. But there are many other issues - as important or moreso - that also could be addressed. U.S. involvement in Syria. U.S. bombings of 3rd world countries. U.S. trajectory toward use of AI against citizens. U.S. citizen spying. I don't want to hear about any of those either, whether the protest is for or against my position. It's really that simple, and I'm not sure whether it's your intellectual laziness or your incapacity to see that you don't have a monopoly on moral reasonableness. [/QUOTE]

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