Bostonians are literally the only people who don’t know Boston’s racist reputation and always act surprised to hear about it.
Bostonians are literally the only people who don’t know Boston’s racist reputation and always act surprised to hear about it.
The thing is, they’re not better at hiding it. They’re just not self-aware enough to know they’re being racist.
I’ve been told, and my experience bears it out, that people in the North like the idea of black people, but don’t want to live next door to them, while people in the South don’t like them as a group but don’t mind them as neighbors.
Citation: relatives in Upstate New York and Alabama.
I agree with you, but I’ve never seen people go from zero to “they never had it so good as they did when they were slaves” faster than in Mississippi. Like, after one beer.
The North is just better at hiding its racism. That’s all.
No one says that there’s no racists outside the south, they just control the state and local governments in the south.
Not to stand on a soapbox here (he says as he’s about to just that), but this is just another case of why I’ve always rolled my eyes at the “the South is so racist” comments that people make these days. There is plenty of racism in the North. I’ve lived for a good amount of time (roughly a decade or more in each) in…
Yes.
I mean good for them. Lifetime ban for anyone caught pulling that bullshit would be nice. And fans need to police themselves. If some chucklefuck is screaming racist shit, tell an usher immediately. Do you really want America to group you in with the worst parts of your sports fandom?
Sox fan here. I’ve already heard some people who were there last night saying “I was there, I didn’t hear anything!” Jesus. Knock off the denials.
As usual, he’ll just be playing Marky Mark.
Exactly, Sox fans are the worst. They all show up to games in Baltimore in Tom Brady or Bruins jerseys because they aren’t there to support the Sox they’re there to represent “Boston: The personal identity”. They scream and talk shit and turn their accent up to 11 and make everyone as uncomfortable as possible. And…
I’m sure we’ll hear how sickened the fans are every time Adam comes to the plate or catches a fly ball these next three games.
half a gram of cocaine
why in the world is that a felony?
Well, at least they’ll all have Cobra Kai to fall back on if this doesn’t work out.
All three of these guys could have been the villain in an 80's skiing movie.
I’m legit looking forward to the “Lonzo Ball finally gets tired of this shit, cuts business ties with his father, father utterly baffled” story that feels like it’s about five years away.
I started watching Sports center as a young child in the late eighties when it was just sports and no hidden political agenda.
This liberal bias is exactly why I canceled my subscription to Deadspin. I just read all the words in the articles and comment sometimes.