From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Feb 9, 2026 at 7:26:28 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >> Feb 9, 2026 at 1:04:32 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I just heard a favorable review of Bad Bunny's performance.   
   >   
   >> I just heard that's seven years and counting since the NFL allowed a white   
   >> person to headline the Super Bowl show. Now they've upped the ante by   
   >> shutting   
   >> out the English language as well.   
   >   
   >> And when you're talking about a sport where the fanbase is more than 70%   
   >> white, there's only one way to understand that decision. It's a deliberate   
   >> effort by the NFL-- and Jay-Z, whose company has been contracted to run the   
   >> halftime shows since 2019-- to exclude white people from participating in   
   the   
   >> single most watched musical performance of the year.   
   >   
   >> Where are the Tom Pettys, the Aerosmiths, and The Who of years past? Country   
   >> music is a billion-dollar/year industry and speaks to American values in a   
   >> way   
   >> that resonates with millions of people but we see none of it at the Super   
   >> Bowl   
   >> anymore. And even if we did, Jay-Z would probably just put his wife on stage   
   >> to culturally appropriate country music and black it up like she did at the   
   >> Grammys.   
   >   
   > I didn't watch. I'm watching the Winter Olympics. Most of the women are   
   > athletic, fit, young, and gorgeous, with long, flowing straight hair and   
   > boy, are there a lot of blondes. It's very very white.   
      
   Which is something that many, many commentators and politicians have been   
   bemoaning. "How dare countries like Sweden, Finland, England, Canadia, and   
   Iceland field all-white teams for the snow games? How can we 'fix' it so that   
   this hideousness doesn't happen again?"   
      
   Imagine mainstream corporate media commentators lamenting "all the blacks on   
   the basketball teams" in the Summer Olympics and throwing out suggestions on   
   how best to whiten them up?   
      
   You can only talk in these genocidal terms about white people. Not only can   
   you talk like that, you're praised as a great humanitarian when you do.   
      
   >  The ice dancing pairs are a man and a woman.   
      
   What? You mean they're not insisting we pretend that some 250-lb dude in a   
   dress is a woman? And demanding we not notice when the other skater can't lift   
   the transformer over his head and twirl him like a baton?   
      
   > The only weirdness is a lack of world-class Dutch speed skaters. It's being   
   > held in a part of the world with actual winter, unlike Beijing.   
      
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