Comments Thread For: Will Boxing Take a Stand (Or a Knee) on Anthem Protests?

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By Martin Rogers - There are many reasons why boxing has all the ingredients to be smack in the middle of the current climate of social protest, otherwise known as the hottest talking point in American sports. Just like the National Football League, the fight game has long been a magnet for young athletes from under-privileged and often minority backgrounds, the precise groups that continue to be strongest in publicizing their displeasure with modern societal imbalances...
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[daggum]

we know what cotto will do

[Mammoth]

we know what cotto will do

How long ago was that ffs

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

Athletes whore themselves out to the satanists lords and there bread and circus gladiator sports for millions then protest by kneeling lol. How about instead of taking a knee like a dumb peasant you stop paying taxes and fight the satanists.

[kennethjohn]

I'd fix the issue with people booing the opposing fighters national anthem.. before they talk about kneeling. brits fly to the usa to watcht their hometown fighter fight and boo the american anthem lol

[KrusherStan]

Social justice warriors are promoted by Soros, Bill Gates, etc. Taking a knee won't change the culture. Back in the day slaves were put to their knees by force, nowadays is a sign of liberation and done voluntarily SMH

[Boxing Logic]

Oh God. Is even BoxingScene hiring ****ing social justice warrior writers now? This is boxing, where people punch each other in the face. Can't we please just leave it be? Is there no reprieve anywhere anymore? Even boxing has to be domesticated and child-proofed and social justice children-proofed? What's next, an article about how the nature of boxing, a physical contest, promotes Patriarchy and Imperialism, a time where Might was Right and women were the property of men due to men's innate advantage in physical strength?

In other words, how can boxing, above all other sports, promote equality, when if it were to have contests within its rules between men and women, men would have an innate advantage, and equality would not be reflected in the net results of those boxing matches? And if, as is clear, the sport of boxing was designed to both advantage men within the sport, and reflect Patriarchal values, ideals, and definitions of self-worth from the culture outside the reflect, then should it not therefore be abolished, or at least changed into a non-contact sport, in order to promote equality #Hillary2020?

Seriously, is that what's next? Is that the plan, boxingscene? Maybe I will find another boxing news website.

[Boxing Logic]

Social justice warriors are promoted by Soros, Bill Gates, etc. Taking a knee won't change the culture. Back in the day slaves were put to their knees by force, nowadays is a sign of liberation and done voluntarily SMH

It's divide and conquer. The last thing the criminals running the show want is for people to see the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. So when these criminals were starting wars and making billions of dollars off third world countries the last eight years, they used Obama to convince the people who liked him that none of that could even be happening, that everything was good, and they used Obama to convince the people who didn't like him, or who paid attention to all the bad things still going on, that Obama was the one doing it, that he was the man to blame.

Now Obama is gone, replaced by Trump, and they are using Trump to convince the people who blamed Obama for what was happening that it's not happening anymore, that Trump is "Draining the swamp," that change is coming, just like they used Obama to promise change was coming after Bush, and they are using Trump to convince the people who liked Obama, or weren't paying attention to bad things going on during the Obama years, that those bad things only started now, with Trump, and that Trump is the root problem, and that if only we had Obama back, or some other new President in 2020, things would get better.

If people think Obama was the cause of the problems, then they won't think to look for the real cause. If people think Trump is the cause of the problems, then they won't think to look for the real cause. If people think Obama or a Democratic politician is the solution to the problems, then they won't look for a real solution. If people think Trump is the solution, then they won't look for the real solution.

All of this allows the people at the top of the pyramid to distract most people from the fact that they own both political parties in the US. That was clear with Bush, and it was clear with Obama. During the campaign, it seemed like Trump was the rare exception, but most the moves he has made since becoming President suggest that he is also an Establishment controlled candidate, just one who came to the office under atypical circumstances, but one none-the-same, at least that's how it looks.

[Tommy O C]

What a ****ty article. This is supposed to be a boxing site

[jonnyc420]

Really BoxingScene?? This is a Boxing website keep the politcs out of it and focus on the sport.