Friday, July 24, 2020

Sports Illustrated got on the fast track to irrelevance when the magazine started using "plus" sized models for the swimwear edition

Now, they're wallowing in pointlessness, as Dan Garland singles out a baseball player for not kneeling before a game, accusing him of "hiding" behind religion.
Don’t do groupthink? Sports Illustrated’s Dan Gartland will judge you. He’ll even lecture you about your Christianity.

Gartland tells readers, “Every player and staff member from four MLB teams took a knee before last night’s opening slate of games to make a statement about inequality. Every single one of them—except Giants reliever Sam Coonrod.”

This is unacceptable to Gartland. They were all kneeling for a “a recorded, uncontroversial message from Morgan Freeman.” It was a “carefully constructed display coordinated and approved by Major League Baseball.”

In other words, it was at best a shallow gesture, a nod to the current zeitgeist. But political theater is sacred these days. We’re all supposed to pretend that we’re hopelessly divided by white racism before we make a show of having accepted the lie and doing our penance for “unity.” It’s the wise way to go if you don’t want to stand out “like a sore thumb,” as Gartland says Coonrod did.
Let's face it, Gartland: you dislike Coonrod's gesture because he's not kowtowing to your religion, a belief in the cosmic truth of left-wing, racist nonsense.

4 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Apparently this Garland person never heard the words, "I kneel only to God." If anybody's "hiding", it's all those dunderheads who knelt because they're afraid of being called out for not being one of the herd.

ck said...

They all think their product is essential, like your gas and electric bills. They're convinced that their audience will put up with whatever they decide to shove down our throats. It's not that way at all, they're a luxury good that can be dismissed easily. Didn't they put or threaten to put a guy in the swimsuit issue?

bruce said...

Who begins their bio:

" Ostensibly a 'sportswriter.' " (sic!) ???

https://twitter.com/dan_gartland

Looks like a kiddy p*rn type to me, where's the FBI?

Deborah said...

I heard that the entire Cleveland Indian team stood for the National Anthemn with right hand over heart and left hand on the shoulder of their teammate. (Applause and cheering!)

Now that the Redskins have been removed, how long will the Indians last.