From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   BTR1701   wrote:   
   >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?"   
      
   Some white people are discriminated against. I haven't seen anyone from   
   Ireland. There are no redheads!   
      
   >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?   
      
   Basketball discriminates against Jews with no discernable athletic   
   talent.   
      
   >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?   
      
   Heh. No transgender crap at all.   
      
   The men perform genuine athletic feats of strength when lifting the women.   
      
   >>. . .   
      
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