• Vespair@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      When my local little league team wins, it doesn’t impact the world in significant ways. Same applies here.

      Sports are great, please enjoy sports as much as you want. But don’t conflate sports games as news

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        9 months ago

        Single incidents of murder or other crimes also don’t “impact the world in significant ways” but are most certainly news. Why is this not? It affects more people.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah you’re right, actual lose of human life and a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around are fully comparable things of equal value and concern.

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            9 months ago

            Maybe not in America with the Super Bowl but sports can do a lot more than just “a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around”. The Ivory Coast making the World Cup caused a civil war to stop; the qualifications between El Salvador and Honduras started one. Hong Kong beating China in 1985 caused riots in Beijing; while basketball has given America someone who can do diplomacy with Kim Jong-un because the Supreme Leader of North Korea likes basketball

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        9 months ago

        I’m not a sports guy either, I made that clear elsewhere in this thread. But just because neither of us are sports fans doesn’t mean we have to pretend that sports can be a big deal to quite a few people on this planet. And the big championship game is going to be news.

        There’s no reason to have a temper tantrum over the fact that a news website is reporting the outcome of a football game. This doesn’t hurt anyone in any way, other than those who are incredibly sensitive to the fact that sometimes they are exposed to things they don’t like.