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Apr 26 @ 10:02 PM ET
dudley - Sabresfan-365
I don't want to dismiss him as a candidate completely, but the fascination with him and his relatively non-existent track record of winning baffles me.
I don't want to dismiss him as a candidate completely, but the fascination with him and his relatively non-existent track record of winning baffles me. - buffalofan19
ive asked here and on different boards what the hype about him is and so far all ive got is he pulled off a decent trade with a cap strapped team for a now defunct organization.
There are just so many better forward thinking candidates, if he had 0 ties to buffalo would he even be a dark horse candidate?
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Apr 26 @ 10:10 PM ET
I thought that percentage has been decreasing, but that's another debate altogether.
While there is something to be said about your definition of "racism", ESPN has been taking a very left leaning approach in recent years, and they have focused their programming to target more of a minority audience. We can debate the "morals" of that until we're blue in the face, but it's hard to debate that it is the strategy. It remains to be seen whether it's a smart one, or not. - buffalofan19
Fox news: Openly right-wing and everyone is fine with that
ESPN: Taking a left-leaning approach, immoral.
Either way, if you want to go into it, minorities, especially African-Americans, right now are the largest consumers. Seriously, and I've been reading into this for a while now, they are the most profitable consumers in America right now. And America is capitalist, so of course they're going to exploit this.
I see a moral dilemma with targeting minorities, especially with consumerism... But the same people who will complain about ESPN directing their attention to a more profitable group are the same people who worship and praise good businessmen, like Terry Pegula.
However, the fact that African-Americans have become the largest individual consumers in the country is a problem reinforced by a system that promotes material possessions and not just how much of them you own, but what they look like or how rare of a item it supposedly is, as making you a more valuable person, while at the same time, the system forces minorities and poor people in general, into poverty.
In this case, though, would education change the consumption? Not if your culture is built on being flashy to begin with and therein lies the real culprit and that African-American culture is the most easily exploitable culture from a capitalist perspective because of the inherent value placed on materialism by the group as a whole.
What we're seeing now, is that businesses and industries are finally starting to realize this and ignorant whites perceive this as prejudice or racism when marketing and advertisement is directed away from them and toward people that they've been told for hundreds of years are inferior to them.
It's a microcosm of why our President right now is Donald Trump and not Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or Ben Carson.... because no one relates to them. Mitt Romney is just a buffoon, John McCain is a veteran yet our veterans feels alienated by a country that treats them like trash after their service and Ben Carson is an affluent black, christian neurosurgeon... I'm not sure if ANYONE can relate to that jamoke.
The fact of the matter is, the "Angry Black guy" has been replaced by "The angry White guy" and Donald Trump encompasses the "Angry White guy" both in personality and in a person they look up to as a "Successful businessman" even though he inherited his father's slumlord empire and isn't the self-made man like Terry Pegula, for instance.
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes Joined: 07.01.2007
Apr 26 @ 10:18 PM ET
Fox news: Openly right-wing and everyone is fine with that
ESPN: Taking a left-leaning approach, immoral.
Either way, if you want to go into it, minorities, especially African-Americans, right now are the largest consumers. Seriously, and I've been reading into this for a while now, they are the most profitable consumers in America right now. And America is capitalist, so of course they're going to exploit this.
I see a moral dilemma with targeting minorities, especially with consumerism... But the same people who will complain about ESPN directing their attention to a more profitable group are the same people who worship and praise good businessmen, like Terry Pegula.
However, the fact that African-Americans have become the largest individual consumers in the country is a problem reinforced by a system that promotes material possessions and not just how much of them you own, but what they look like or how rare of a item it supposedly is, as making you a more valuable person, while at the same time, the system forces minorities and poor people in general, into poverty.
In this case, though, would education change the consumption? Not if your culture is built on being flashy to begin with and therein lies the real culprit and that African-American culture is the most easily exploitable culture from a capitalist perspective because of the inherent value placed on materialism by the group as a whole.
What we're seeing now, is that businesses and industries are finally starting to realize this and ignorant whites perceive this as prejudice or racism when marketing and advertisement is directed away from them and toward people that they've been told for hundreds of years are inferior to them.
It's a microcosm of why our President right now is Donald Trump and not Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or Ben Carson.... because no one relates to them. Mitt Romney is just a buffoon, John McCain is a veteran yet our veterans feels alienated by a country that treats them like trash after their service and Ben Carson is an affluent black, christian neurosurgeon... I'm not sure if ANYONE can relate to that jamoke.
The fact of the matter is, the "Angry Black guy" has been replaced by "The angry White guy" and Donald Trump encompasses the "Angry White guy" both in personality and in a person they look up to as a "Successful businessman" even though he inherited his father's slumlord empire and isn't the self-made man like Terry Pegula, for instance. - BeadyEyedDouche
I wasn't saying ESPN's stance is immoral, just that it has been quite apparent for quite a while. And now they seem to be doubling down on it, despite the fact that Disney's financials have were sub par in 2016, and they pretty much flat out said it was ESPN's fault.
Honestly, I don't care about any channel's approach. If Fox News wants to be an alt-right think tank, fine. I won't watch, unless there's some program or specific subject matter that intrigues me. If ESPN wants to target minority viewers, that's fine with me as well. I probably won't watch unless it's televising a game I want to watch.
I do agree that our culture has become a materialistic one, but that happened to every major civilization throughout history. It's merely history repeating itself. The scary part is that it usually meant the end of that civilization as the world knew it.
