Is it even plausible for athletes to believe in "equality"?

NOPE wrote:

Doubter wrote:

We've seen a ton of athletes these past few years wearing "equality" shirts at NBA games or as part of the Nike OTC. Is this all hot air or do these competitive athletes (and millionaires) actually believe in "equality"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqXtkkmdqOg

Nope. It's all marketing, nothing short of gimmicks for purposes of popularity and political correctness. Nobody actually endorses "equality" unless that affords some advantage to him or his own interests. This demonstration is hardly different from the manner in which we present ourselves in public, the personas we produce online, etc. It's all for show or for the sake of manufactured civility. When these guys and gals don these shirts, they feel that they're part of some special segment of society and that they're more civil, enlightened or "woke."

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NOPE wrote:

Nope. It's all marketing, nothing short of gimmicks for purposes of popularity and political correctness. Nobody actually endorses "equality" unless that affords some advantage to him or his own interests. This demonstration is hardly different from the manner in which we present ourselves in public, the personas we produce online, etc. It's all for show or for the sake of manufactured civility. When these guys and gals don these shirts, they feel that they're part of some special segment of society and that they're more civil, enlightened or "woke."

Lol oh the irony. People preaching equality all the while virtue signaling to COMPETE to see who can be the most PC.

The stupidity of the SJW movement really is something interesting to watch.

belial wrote:

The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Just more virtue signalling by the founding fathers...

All kidding aside, and at the risk of stating the patently obvious, equality in this content surrounds notions like equality under the law or deserving of equal moral consideration as conscious beings. At this point we're debating world views. I'm with the people wearing the equality shirts in general... but if I wasn't, I'd say something like "they're just virtue signalling."

Exactly - that's why I didn't understand the original question. How could the OP possibly know what everyone's definition of "equality" is who wears the shirt? Seems instead like laziness in assuming what everyone's thoughts are.

poorop wrote:

belial wrote:

The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Just more virtue signalling by the founding fathers...

All kidding aside, and at the risk of stating the patently obvious, equality in this content surrounds notions like equality under the law or deserving of equal moral consideration as conscious beings. At this point we're debating world views. I'm with the people wearing the equality shirts in general... but if I wasn't, I'd say something like "they're just virtue signalling."

Exactly - that's why I didn't understand the original question. How could the OP possibly know what everyone's definition of "equality" is who wears the shirt? Seems instead like laziness in assuming what everyone's thoughts are.

Is that same kind of laziness as generalizing entire groups (race) of people as racists, bigots, etc? ex. - "All white people are racist"

Lebron James is/was the face of the Equality Movement, I think he was upset that he was getting paid WAY MORE than his teammates and others in his teams organization, like the Ushers, The Parking Lot Attendants, Cheer Leaders,The people selling hot dogs etc. So he Altruistically asked that every one in his teams organization get PAID EQUALLY, this was a great sacrifice as he had to give up a lot of money, but it made others in the organization like the towel boy who wipes up the players sweat during time outs very happy as they got HUGE raises and are now paid EQUAL to LeBron James.

This shows what a GREAT MAN LeBron James is, because most people that have more want to keep it that way, and most who have less want to have more, but with LeBron James you have a man who had WAY MORE who out of the goodness of his heart VOLUNTARILY gave it up, so all in his Teams Organization can be EQUAL FINANCIALLY.