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"I wear pride stuff during pride month" is the new "I have a black friend".
People wanting to be treated equally shouldn't be seen as political speech. Increasing visibility for a group of people who have historically been largely made to hide shouldn't be seen as radical.
Based on your logic, we should also no longer allow anything that shows support for the cishet community. No more mention of the player's wives and children. I think that sounds fair, right?
I'm not saying it's political speech, I even mentioned commercial speech in there as well. I'm just saying that in a professional sports setting, it should be about the game, not whatever social, political, or economic issue the player is interested in.
Agreed. I don't see any reason for a player to have their wife or children displayed on their sticks or anywhere on their uniform while playing. If there's a section for a bio somewhere (like when they're being announced coming onto the ice), it could mention their support for LGBT issues or their family life or whatever. They'd get a small blurb that can say whatever they want, perhaps audited for hate speech or commercial ads that are in conflict with whoever is advertising for that game.
But I don't really see any reason for players to be advertising anything on their sticks or jerseys while playing. Whether a player is LGBT or supports LGBT issues should have no bearing on how they play the game.
How naive to think that there has never been any social or political commentary in sports. No Jackie Robinson, no Muhammad Ali, nothing. Right?
I didn't say there wasn't, I said there shouldn't. If players want to make political or social commentary, they should do it outside of the game itself. But once they're suited up and playing, it should be all about the game.
That sums up what you're saying, right?
What players do off the ice is irrelevant, what matters here is that there are teams that still want to do pride warmups, but they can't.
You haven't yet given a good reason for why teams shouldn't be able to use pride related jerseys during warmups, and that's because there really isn't a good reason.