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Shoulda learned from the best guys. Michael Jordan: "Republicans buy sneakers too."

Larrikin 6y ago
The world will be a better place when people are ok being wealthy without feeling the need to make every single penny possible. Being ok with cops killing unarmed minorities so you can sell more shoes shouldn't be a defensible position. Being ok with child labor and internment camps so you can make and sell more phones shouldn't be a defensible position. As an extremely minor example it seems like nearly every food chain starts off actually amazing and then eventually becomes crap through incremental bottom line savings that simply open up the market for a new chain to come in and all the MBAs who ruined the company can jump ship to.
- blacktriangle 6y ago
  I think its less about making money and more about focusing on what he was actually good at. In later reflections on that line, Jordan goes on to say he never saw himself as a role model, just as a basketball player. I'd say the world will be a better place when people who are famous for X focus on their love of X and shut up about everything else about which they probably know less than the average citizen due to being hyperfocused on X.
  - Larrikin 6y ago
    So in an ideal world only politicians and political pundits would be allowed to voice their opinions on issues and not people actually effected? LeBron isn't kneeling because he thinks the police will shoot him, he's kneeling for his family, friends, and people he grew up with that aren't famous athletes that he would like to stay alive.
    - blacktriangle 6y ago
      LeBron is a wonderful example of people who shouldn't open their mouth about things they don't understand, like the actual police violence stats which show that blacks are underrepresented as the victims of the police as a function of criminality.
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  - dragontamer 6y ago
    > shut up about everything else On the one hand, its "people I disagree with should shut up". On the other hand, its "censorship is wrong, and people should have a right to say what they want". ------------- This conflict shows up again and again in sports. Kaepernick was wrong to kneel during the anthem. Etc. etc. I always find it weird that as sports / entertainment comes up, people feel the need to call for censorship of celebrity voices.
    - klyrs 6y ago
      I keep hearing people say that BLM is too violent, only peaceful protests are okay. But Kaepernick is cancelled because... apparently peaceful protests aren't okay either.
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The world will be a better place when people are ok being wealthy without feeling the need to make every single penny possible. Being ok with cops killing unarmed minorities so you can sell more shoes shouldn't be a defensible position. Being ok with child labor and internment camps so you can make and sell more phones shouldn't be a defensible position. As an extremely minor example it seems like nearly every food chain starts off actually amazing and then eventually becomes crap through incremental bottom line savings that simply open up the market for a new chain to come in and all the MBAs who ruined the company can jump ship to.

blacktriangle 6y ago
I think its less about making money and more about focusing on what he was actually good at. In later reflections on that line, Jordan goes on to say he never saw himself as a role model, just as a basketball player. I'd say the world will be a better place when people who are famous for X focus on their love of X and shut up about everything else about which they probably know less than the average citizen due to being hyperfocused on X.
- Larrikin 6y ago
  So in an ideal world only politicians and political pundits would be allowed to voice their opinions on issues and not people actually effected? LeBron isn't kneeling because he thinks the police will shoot him, he's kneeling for his family, friends, and people he grew up with that aren't famous athletes that he would like to stay alive.
  - blacktriangle 6y ago
    LeBron is a wonderful example of people who shouldn't open their mouth about things they don't understand, like the actual police violence stats which show that blacks are underrepresented as the victims of the police as a function of criminality.
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- dragontamer 6y ago
  > shut up about everything else On the one hand, its "people I disagree with should shut up". On the other hand, its "censorship is wrong, and people should have a right to say what they want". ------------- This conflict shows up again and again in sports. Kaepernick was wrong to kneel during the anthem. Etc. etc. I always find it weird that as sports / entertainment comes up, people feel the need to call for censorship of celebrity voices.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    I keep hearing people say that BLM is too violent, only peaceful protests are okay. But Kaepernick is cancelled because... apparently peaceful protests aren't okay either.
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