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What the Bucks did today, and then the rest of the sports world following suit, made me really question my initial reaction. That's an effective protest.
I saw headlines yesterday and this morning about the idea of a boycott and I dismissed them. Nah that won't happen. Then they did it and I wasn't happy. How are you just not going to play? What will that do? Then games across all sports cancelled. And I was like hmm...
Then I thought about the messages on players' jerseys, Black Lives Matter on the court, the commercials, and how that can all be written off as cheap, 'virtue signaling,' same kind of "okay but what does it change?" sentiment.
The point of a protest isn't supposed to be convenient. If it makes you uncomfortable and makes you think about things from a perspective you're not used to, that's a pretty good sign that it's working.
I can sit here and poke holes in arguments, point out potential flaws in the methods being used, but that seems like semantics. It doesn't have to be logically perfect and completely fleshed out from the jump to be legitimate. That's a realization I came to today.
It's really difficult for me to put my thoughts out on things like this because I don't fit in a nice and neat little box. It's easy to toe the line and parrot talking points. I'm trying to figure this shit out for myself, and that's an unpaved, lonely road.
