I’m sure there’s a whole bunch of people who support this while doing mental backflips to tell themselves they’re not racist.
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Not just that but it's probably because some racist fucking shitbags statue got taken down.
I know next to nothing about US sports but I don't even have to open the article or Google anything to know that this is about a black player's statue...
It's not just a black player, it's the black player. Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player in major league baseball.
I will be interested to know if it was stolen for its scrap value or because of racist backlash
I mean, they didn't sell the scrap, they burned it in a trash can. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Until "they" are caught it is not obvious. They could have dumped and burned it after all the attention. "They" are obviously not the sharpest tools in the shed.
UPDATE: Now we know: "Wichita police Lt. Aaron Moses said there was no evidence it was a “hate-motivated crime” but rather the intent was to sell the metal for scrap."
https://apnews.com/article/jackie-robinson-statue-theft-arrest-c959797761a726fe3611b1b4ee641e8f
League 42 founder and CEO Bob Lutz told reporters that the mold from the original statue is still viable, and that they intend to replace the piece in the coming months.
They could leave the cut-off shoes from the old statue right next to the brand new one, just to remind people it's an ongoing issue.
What a bunch of cucks. Hope they catch the bastards. Edit: it was supposed to be fucks but I think it's better this way.
Always glad to see my hometown in the news.
It seems too stupid to be related, and yet I would not be surprised to learn the culprits were in some way motivated by the vandalism of the Captain Cook statue in Melbourne.
I mean - I know. Anti-colonizer vandalism is not the same thing as a potential hate crime, but it doesn’t seem to be a very considered crime.
Were you huffing the Jackie Robinson trash can fire?
Depends - does it motivate one to make inane vitriolic comments online?
It seems you may have mistaken another person at the fire for me.
No it makes you draw random connections between two events on literal opposite sides of the Earth, undertaken for completely different reason.
Racist fuckwits. Sure might be nice if someone burned them in a trash can.
Streisand Effect
I had never heard of Jackie until this post
If you're from somewhere that doesn't care about baseball then that's pretty expected.
Chadwick Boseman played Jackie Robinson in a movie named "42", released in 2013. Worth a watch if you want to know more.
Are you from outside the U.S., or how old are you? He was always included in lessons about the Civil Rights movement in history class for me, because he was so impactful at the time in what was the nation’s most popular sport.
I don't live on the united states and I'm glad I don't with all its human rights issues
You'd think they would include that in the description not just "baseball legend", because my Australian arse was wondering why the fuck anyone would really care about a baseball statue.
Yea. It's common knowledge. There are movies made about him. Recent ones at that. His number is retired throughout the entire sport. Needless to say, he was a big deal.
Only if you're in the us, I don't live there
Common knowledge in the US. I hadnt heard of him either
I cannot believe there are people still mad about Jackie Robinson. Do you people not have actual problems?
“Oh I get it now. White people don’t have problems so they have to invent them.” - Mike Tyson (in Mike Tyson Mysteries)
There are people still mad about the end of slavery.
My guess is this is a response to the removal of Confederate statues.
I thought they hated participation trophies.
They're the ones that invented participation trophies. They love to put that on millennials, but I don't think 6 year old Timmy went to the trophy store and bought a couple dozen trophies for his losing team.
They still rep confederate battle flag and cling to their statues. They even built their own Mt Rushmore in Georgia. They absolutely love trophies for losers
Sure see a lot of Boomers wearing the Vietnam participation awards every day
I think it's a little different when you're a slave soldier yourself
These are simple minds that believe “having to look at something they don’t like” is a great oppression, which is why they want to keep their civil war statues up and cover their cars with stickers and flags.
They're mad about any person with skin colour that doesn't match their preference.
Man, I was thinking the exact same thing!
Jackie still dealing with these inbred fuckheads. Same bullshit he had to deal with in life. Just disgusting people.
Further proving that no matter how "advanced" we become as a people, racism and hatred will always be an artifact of the past that threatens to drag us back into a more hateful time.