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Its hard to look at those examples, along with Biles, and not think that the precedent has racial undertones. Would the reaction be the same if these were white
by JamesSwift 5y ago
Its hard to look at those examples, along with Biles, and not think that the precedent has racial undertones. Would the reaction be the same if these were white athletes, or would they become marketing powerhouses responded to with amazement at how they are operating at entirely new levels.
- Judgmentality 5y agoI actually hadn't considered this, and now I'm curious if some of the new F1 regulations (there are lots of new regulations fairly regularly, so I don't mean to say this is like changing the rules of basketball which happens every decade or so) have anything to do with Lewis Hamilton's total dominance, who happens to be the first black formula 1 driver.
- faitswulff 5y agoFrankly, it is absolutely racist, and I'll happily burn karma to say so.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt's very easy to also not see this as having racial undertones. If all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail, expand your toolbox.
- jdgoesmarching 5y agoAn institution use idiotic logic to downplay the achievements of someone who happens to be black? Famously something we know has never happened before, particularly in sports. No this doesn’t prove anything, it’s just a data point that happens to fall on a trend line. In this case, HN sees something that looks like a nail and would rather fling the hammer out the window then consider using it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoIf you pull out dozens of nails and the other person tells you they're all not a nail, just "a nail-shaped piece of metal", perhaps you should find another opinion.
- bryan_w 5y agoRight? Nobody makes Tom Brady play with an overinflated ball to even the playing field.
- foobarian 5y agoNobody institutes limits on the number of joints you can have in swimming competitions either.
- JamesSwift 5y agoIn fact they might underinflate it a bit to help him out ; )
- cafard 5y agoShoot, it appears that you can't even make Tom Brady play with a ball inflated to the regulation pressure.
- toomuchredbull 5y agoThey passed such rules for Wayne Gretzky as well.
- JamesSwift 5y agoWasn't aware of that. Very good counterexample, appreciate the balance
- 1-more 5y agowait what rules did they change for him?
- locopati 5y agowithout looking it up, iirc, they changed rules around being able to setup behind the goal (which was a classic move for him to wraparound) and also rules around the goal crease