When it comes to the NFL boycott, people just don’t get it. They don’t understand that by only boycotting the NFL and not boycotting the NFL’s sponsors/advertisers makes them gigantic hypocrites.
On Twitter, I ask people if they are also going to boycott the NFL sponsors/advertisers. I post the link to one of my post explaining how they are hypocrites. Often they like my Tweet and then retweet it.
They just don’t get it.
They see the headline of my post and get excited: Boycott all NFL Sponsors Immediately. Instead of reading the post, they automatically think I’m on their side. They didn’t realize that I was actually pointing out their hypocrisy and their lack of intelligence with the issue.
But they don’t care.
This is symptomatic of a larger problem with people today. They jump at a headline. They share the headline with their friends. They repeatedly “like” the headline. This is exactly how Donald Trump was elected.
Americans are lazy. Lazy Americans don’t care to actually read, to actually do some research or to actually look at an issue objectively.
In so many ways social media is wonderful. But it also provides an easy mechanism for the mouth-breathers to spread their subjective narratives. That deteriorates truth and objectivity. This concept is pervasive in the arena of politics and has now filtered in to the world of sports.
“In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.”
― Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
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