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Originally Posted by
ragingpup
I think that a unified boycott of the worst dicuss media sites from major stars could be a powerful message in forcing the sites to be more proactive in clamping down on hateful posters.
However, the point remains that whilstever there is such activity going on, which is most visible on these sites, that doesn't detect from the over riding point that this is just the most visible tip of an iceberg that many black sports people and Black people generally have to encounter in their lives, and the knee taking is aimed at wider discrimination, not just that on message boards.
Further, if we say that our solution is for players to withdraw their social media accounts, much of which is part of their commercial profile, whilst allowing white sports stars to keep theirs active, you are effectively discriminating with your solution.