Opinion | Apparently rainbow tape is now too provocative for the NHL
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It may seem like just rainbow-colored athletic tape, but it’s much more.
    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I can see why that might be. While LGBTQ+ rights are a political issue, this is technically about a sports league decision to disallow Pride displays.

      Still sucks, and it is sports politics, but it's not really politics as it pertains to matters of government and law.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I just watched a hockey game where rainbow tape was banned, they started off with a "We stand with Israel!" bit, followed by an indigenous land acknowledgement.

    agony-limitless

    • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sooo... they endorsed one genocide right before pretending to be concerned over another?

      You can't make this shit up.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This is what "nonpolitical" politics really are: status quo adherence.

  • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    One doesn't even have to know what hockey is to automatically identify this as stupid as fuck.

    As someone who likes hockey, holy fuck. Tape? Yeah, if that's the mentality of whomever is running the NHL, fuck y'all. This isn't like players are changing the dynamic or anything important at all to the game, and quite frankly in support of a very important message.

    I'd like to demand that the staff who passed this all step the fuck down in disgrace. All of them.