jimmy eat jazz
Well-Known Member
Note to belabor the point, but here's an example of the inevitable overlap between politics and sports:
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/01/31/mohamed-sanu-muslim-immigration-ban-falcons-super-bowl
Public policies affect people's lives, athletes no less than regular people. That fact that many of these men/women are in an upper tier income bracket is irrelevant. Do you really expect athletes, and those who cover them, to completely ignore such things?
As for Locke, I'm a bit surprised when he crosses over into politics (which he does only now and then)as he is obviously quite progressive in his political philosophy, and I'm guessing his core audience is overwhleming more conservative white males. He has to know, or guess, that there's a good share of his audience that isn't going to take it well when he does venture over into politics.
But then, I'm also guessing his core audience, which I presume is predominantly urban and educated, voted against Trump as a group. But here I'm only speculating with nothing more to go on than some pretty broad generalizations.
BTW: When I re-read my posts I inevitably find a large number of typos. As I have a milder form of dyslexia, I would appreciate some forebearance here.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/01/31/mohamed-sanu-muslim-immigration-ban-falcons-super-bowl
Public policies affect people's lives, athletes no less than regular people. That fact that many of these men/women are in an upper tier income bracket is irrelevant. Do you really expect athletes, and those who cover them, to completely ignore such things?
As for Locke, I'm a bit surprised when he crosses over into politics (which he does only now and then)as he is obviously quite progressive in his political philosophy, and I'm guessing his core audience is overwhleming more conservative white males. He has to know, or guess, that there's a good share of his audience that isn't going to take it well when he does venture over into politics.
But then, I'm also guessing his core audience, which I presume is predominantly urban and educated, voted against Trump as a group. But here I'm only speculating with nothing more to go on than some pretty broad generalizations.
BTW: When I re-read my posts I inevitably find a large number of typos. As I have a milder form of dyslexia, I would appreciate some forebearance here.
