This crowd started singing the national anthem after they said that they wouldn’t be .. #foryou 
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They announced that they wouldn’t be singing the national anthem at this event so the crowd started singing the national anthem now that’s American #foryou #...

So brave

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    17 days ago

    Reminds me of the dudes that harassed high school football players for disrespecting America by taking a knee during the anthem. Of course they were carrying confederate flags.

    Also reminds me of the Little League World Series when the Georgia fans chanted “USA, USA” after defeating Hawaii.

    Or the Memorial Day golf tournament where they do a minute of silence while an attack helicopter flies around the course.

    Or how baseball teams where camouflage unis on Memorial Day.

    Edit: Also, if you want to see a cult that rivals Elon Musk dick riders, check out the Indiana Fever subreddit and their worship of Caitlin Clark

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    17 days ago

    I reallly never got the whole nationalism + military worship with sports…or sports all together.

    Like it’s a stupid game. The pregame ritiuals seemed always so forced. Like a joke. Just play the damned game and then get real stupid when someone’s butt flinches the wrong way on a technicality. manhattan

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      17 days ago

      Sports, more specifically in my opinion, American football, is a tool in the belt of the empire to divide the people and increase support for jingoism and dichotomized world views.

      Excerpts from Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky interviewed by various interviewers

      Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite different: it’s diversion. There’s the real mass media-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack — that kind. The purpose of those media is just to dull people’s brains.

      This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about “Mother With Child With Six Heads,” or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other. Just get them away. Get them away from things that matter. And for that it’s important to reduce their capacity to think.

      Take, say, sports — that’s another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it — you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that’s of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about — [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it’s striking to see the intelligence that’s used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in — they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

      You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don’t know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn’t mean any — it doesn’t make sense.

      But the point is, it does make sense: it’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements — in fact, it’s training in irrational jingoism. That’s also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that’s why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on.