Sunday, September 09, 2018
Professional sports as a microcosm of the biological origin of our social behavior
"Merit" should not be defined
only as talent and aptitude, just as IQ scores alone are not enough
in choosing our leaders; character traits also have to be included,
otherwise we would have only genius-monsters as leaders.
But that describes the old Western
preferences. There is not one good or one bad when comparing apples
and oranges and there is not one good or bad when comparing one
ethnic/racial group to another. They are just different.
Our culture and our Big Media now seems to want emotional outbursts and agit prop and finds traditional etiquette
and decorum too confining. How many young tennis players and
football players will now destroy their tennis rackets, loudly argue
with the umpire, or protest various political injustices on the football field?
Serena Williams and Colin Kaepernick,
who are African Americans, illustrate the change in the character and
tone of professional sports. Our sports have become more rude, unmannerly, and vulgar when
compared to the old WASP (white Anglo/Saxon Protestant)
standards. But it
also more deeply illustrates the politically incorrect reality
that when the ethnic/racial group changes the culture changes.
Not one, I repeat, not one, announcer
or commentator took the side of the beleaguered umpire when he tried
to uphold the old traditional etiquette and decorum of tennis from
being trashed by MS Williams. The New York crowd had to be chastised
later by Williams, to her credit, to stop booing on her behalf
because it was ruining the win of Naomi Osaka, who played well and
showed that elite Japanese athletes are more civilized than many
Americans athletes.
These are just the facts, man, just the facts.
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