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Basketball is biased against short people. I urge #shutdownbasketball because it is weaponized against height challenged people.

Posted by freedomforall 5 years ago to Politics
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OK, I am not serious, but I posted this after reading what appears to be a serious article titled: "'Academics' Nationwide Urge #ShutDownSTEM Because Science Is "Weaponized Against Black People""
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/a...
If science should be stopped because the methods required to achieve excellence (the scientific method) are biased against blacks then it is just as rational to end all organized sports because they are biased against people who haven't learned to be excellent at sports.
While we are at it, end politics because it is biased against people who haven't learned public speaking - like Joe Biden.
And end all taxation because it is biased against many people who haven't learned to to do proper accounting.
And end manufacturing of all drugs, and end the practice of medicine altogether because it is biased against people who can't pronounce long names of drugs and the long names of diseases they are used to treat.

And stop all breathing because it is biased against people who have asthma.

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    Posted by Stormi 5 years ago
    Being vertically challenged, I alos lived thrught the gender challenged days when no one wanted to give a car loan to a single woman, but I persvered and got my Malibu SS even then. Dumbing down is the name of the game today, if they are not taught science or other academics in gov. schools, then it must be that those who learn it are racist. Bull. That was not the case in the 50s, when black musicians actually learned how to read music and play an instrument with awesome effects. Now, we devolved into rap, and they are so rich, thanks to tone deaf idiots, that they drive tricked ut SUVs and hae multiple multi million $ homes. Americ is officially dumbed down, and AOC is the poster child.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 5 years ago in reply to this comment.
    You can't win any of them. This is the campaign to destroy the good for being the good, nakedly revealed. This is the campaign to negate individualism and elevate the group uber alles… Spreading hatred is their form of virtue-signaling. I wish I could have made this sound funny.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 5 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I doubt the Malcom X would endear himself to the present pity-seeking minority. He had no interest in pity or sloth.

    His would end up in the scrape pile next to Andrew Jackson.
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  • Posted by NealS 5 years ago in reply to this comment.
    How about putting the basket down real low, so they'd have to bend way over to make an accurate shot. Or better yet, tear it all all down and ban basketball, and all the other sports that require some kind of unearned advantage. Public sports arenas could then all be turned into public dance floors, at least for people with legs, not just long ones. That would then become discriminatory against those without legs.
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  • Posted by preimert1 5 years ago
    This is not exactly on point, but I was thinking about submitting a sugestion to a Richmond.VA news paper that after all the Confederate statues have been removed from Monument Avenue, they be re-populated with notable figures from the Civil Rights struggle (MLK, Rosa Parks, Malcomb X, et al.) But when I thought about it, my obviously facticious suggestion might actually be implemented.
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 5 years ago
    Lockdown is a BUM-mer (Bondage under Mandate)

    Nyuck Nyuck as if we weren't PUN-ished enough
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  • Posted by rhfinle 5 years ago
    Wait a minute! I'm Gravitationally Challenged at over 300 lbs. There's no place for me in basketball either. Basketball is Fatist!!!
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  • Posted by $ blarman 5 years ago
    As one of the privileged 6'+ I demand you all recognize my basketball superiority by going under my house to fix my pipes... ;)

    Seriously, though, this goes back to my favorite sci-fi short story: Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron. Instead of celebrating excellence, society punishes it. We're closer than we like to admit.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years ago
    Laughing...I was under 5' tall until my late teens but I was a good basketball player...I could run and dribble faster than everyone else. When out for Track too...but never developed the last min. kick when needed.
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  • Posted by ewv 5 years ago in reply to this comment.
    You mean groveling in shame with heads bowed like muslims mass-mooning the West, and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of those pandering in unearned guilt to ethnic tribalists?
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    Posted by $ WilliamShipley 5 years ago
    Taller players should be urged to "take a knee" and give up their unearned privilege!
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  • Posted by ewv 5 years ago
    I thought basketball is already known to be biased: It is racist because so many of the best and most successful players are obviously white supremacists.

    Science isn't weaponized against black people, but most certainly is unjustly weaponized against ignorance, with the horrendous consequences of peaceful cultural genocide against the Dark Ages that had a right to control. #ShutDownTheEnlightenment
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  • Posted by edweaver 5 years ago
    Why would you not be serious? It is a valid argument based on what is going on. Extreme, yes, but still the same concept.

    AS is non-fiction.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years ago
    The people who are proposing to #shutdownSTEM and end science would have fit in well during the Inquisition.
    Kill all the scientists! It's too hard for some people! I need my safe space! I want my Super Bowl Participation ring!

    AS non-fiction.
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