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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I had to register a guess, OP was probably (or hopefully) basing their comment on how sports like Football and Baseball have traditionally been viewed in the U.S., and possibly Futbol (Soccer) pretty much everywhere else. Whatever he based it off of, I can say there is just a bit too much funding and weight that goes into sports in Highschool and many Colleges. While dumb comment be dumb, it is certainly true that many people do place obscene amounts of importance on sports in general. For schools it's often to the fundamental detriment of educational curriculums.

I'm not really trying to defend OP. Just pointing out that from what little I have grasped, one is almost seen as a cultural outcast in some professions if they don't "talk sports", for example, and the stories I've heard of people found wearing the wrong team colors, wild. It's all a bit silly, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I get where you're coming from but at the same time it's still just... Absolutely hilarious that he's trying to call this worship. It's like seeing atheists making fun of a particularly stupid passage in the Bible and then telling them that they're worshiping god.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think they were talking about this specific instance. They were talking about actually famous and successful singers and athletes. Also the only reason there is a news piece mocking this kid is the fact that ordinarily Americans care a lot about what famous athletes and pop stars say. It's not like that they would make a similar piece mocking a baker or handyman or something. This news article exists because it's relevant to how important professional athletes' words are.