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The usual "Holy **** strong political message they must be forcing a different lifestyle on me and accept diversity!" bull ****.
 
DocWest said:
So much homophobia and ignorance in that thread. It's ****ing disgusting.
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I pretty much knew what was going to be posted on there before I clicked on the thread. Can't expect much for stupid mainboarders.
 
Jeff18 said:
I pretty much knew what was going to be posted on there before I clicked on the thread. Can't expect much for stupid mainboarders.
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Yep. For one thing it just confirms that they are terrible human beings. On a deeper level it's really ****ing disturbing just how bigoted and ignorant so many people still are in 2016. They can't comperhend anybody or anything thing that isn't exactly just like them.
 
Damn. People get worked up over nothing. The fact that so many people were so prejudice and ignorant is exactly why things like this are needed; to give awareness and promote discussion.
 
And it was closed so now all those troglodytes can be protected and crawl back into their caves. That thread showed exactly why the rainbow tape was needed and relevant.
 
Reclamation Project said:
It's ****ing colored tape. People are so weak.
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This.
Not to mention using the whole religion crap on homosexuality is getting annoying. It's 2016. There is a really small percentile people in the world that are LGBT.
I mean the same religions had to accept that the world isn't shaped like a pancake, something they were selling for centuries too...
 
Lets keep it from getting too political in here like it did there. People will have different views that discussion on a hockey board won't solve.

That being said, I may be in the minority, but I don't feel it was a 'political' issue. If it were, I couldn't see a sports organization sponsoring it. What the idea of it was is supporting equality in hockey, not advocating for gay marriage or liberal values or anything like that. To make that leap, you have to politicize it with your own agenda, in my humble opinion. I don't see the idea as fundamentally different from promoting black athletes in hockey to help bring further diversity, or running clinics in China. You're not forcing anything on anyone, you're just saying that when we're on the ice, we're all equal.

Athletes can and will have their own views elsewhere. Tim Thomas is obviously super conservative but I doubt he'd speak out against a gay teammate. May not approve of his lifestyle elsewhere but the idea is to make the locker room and thus the sport more comfortable so people in general aren't shut out. Simply put, it's stupid to have segregation of any type in any sport. That's all I'm saying and that's all I saw this as.
 
Raccoon Jesus said:
Lets keep it from getting too political in here like it did there. People will have different views that discussion on a hockey board won't solve.

That being said, I may be in the minority, but I don't feel it was a 'political' issue. If it were, I couldn't see a sports organization sponsoring it. What the idea of it was is supporting equality in hockey, not advocating for gay marriage or liberal values or anything like that. To make that leap, you have to politicize it with your own agenda, in my humble opinion. I don't see the idea as fundamentally different from promoting black athletes in hockey to help bring further diversity, or running clinics in China. You're not forcing anything on anyone, you're just saying that when we're on the ice, we're all equal.

Athletes can and will have their own views elsewhere. Tim Thomas is obviously super conservative but I doubt he'd speak out against a gay teammate. May not approve of his lifestyle elsewhere but the idea is to make the locker room and thus the sport more comfortable so people in general aren't shut out. Simply put, it's stupid to have segregation of any type in any sport. That's all I'm saying and that's all I saw this as.
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Refusing to talk about something such as the rainbow tape and chalking it up to "politics" is pretty messed up. The whole reason the Oilers did that in the first place was to show the game of hockey should be a safe space for anybody who wants to play it. On top of that, if you keep shutting down the conversation because of "politics" people will never see a different perspective and change will never come. I know it's not you specifically, but it's pretty ridiculous.
 
I'm in agreement with you personally. I guess what I'm saying is I see it as less of a value judgment and more of what you say about showing hockey as a safe place for anyone who wants to play. The issue itself SHOULD be politicized (NOT HERE OBVIOUSLY) but the idea/action in this case shouldn't inherently be really offending anyone's views. In other words, it shouldn't have come to that in the first place.

There is a politics board to sound off on that aspect of it.
 
The politics board is pretty much a branch of the main board and not a really good place to talk about anything, unless you enjoy getting bullied. Since there are no rules there, it becomes a **** show where opposing opinions are silenced through flaming. Here we at least share similarities in that we are Kings fans, and immature name calling is prohibited. 99.999% of the politics board population are just terrible people who do not contribute to any sort of discussion. The rare times one of us show up it looks like it's getting better but everything else is just filth.
 
Jeff18 said:
The politics board is pretty much a branch of the main board and not a really good place to talk about anything, unless you enjoy getting bullied. Since there are no rules there, it becomes a **** show where opposing opinions are silenced through flaming. Here we at least share similarities in that we are Kings fans, and immature name calling is prohibited. 99.999% of the politics board population are just terrible people.
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I agree. I tried posting over there for a while. Although I didn't face too much name calling, I would hate to be a conservative or not completely liberal over there because you're basically being scolded for not believing exactly as they do. I won't go into it too much but stay away from that place unless you want to be called a racist or a blood sucking capitalist
 
You guys must've missed Getzlaf's comment in Arizona then. :laugh:

(It was something along the lines of "It's hard to get up for a game in front of such a small crowd"... dude's a real idiot sometimes)
 
Denny Potvin needs to retire as a color commentator. He's just awful. Seems to think the game is still in '80s mode.
 
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