If it's a local team or one you have a genuine connection to, sure. But 95% of sports team fans are basically just fanboys of football team corporation #56 Ltd.
is it? or is it part of the indoctrination against empathy and a reinforcement of the same garbage in-group/ out-group mentality of racism and every other bigotry?
I mean they don't hate each other and the antagonism is part of a social game they have agreed to play and they don't actually bear each other any ill will
sit down and have a think about how healthy it is for a society to have a bunch of people recreationally pretending to hate one another, and then do some more thinking about all the times where some shithead acts on that supposedly fake hatred.
Being a fan of a sports team is the most direct form of a sense of community that people have left, so I won’t begrudge them for it
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If it's a local team or one you have a genuine connection to, sure. But 95% of sports team fans are basically just fanboys of football team corporation #56 Ltd.
and rival team fans hate eachother for no reason instead of building class solidarity.
I think local sports team tribalism is pretty far down the list of things undermining intra-class solidarity.
is it? or is it part of the indoctrination against empathy and a reinforcement of the same garbage in-group/ out-group mentality of racism and every other bigotry?
do not in fact hate each other it's a game they play
fans don't play
or if you mean the ritualistic hatred of the other is "for fun lol" I don't think it makes that aspect of american sports fandom any less contemptable
I mean they don't hate each other and the antagonism is part of a social game they have agreed to play and they don't actually bear each other any ill will
sit down and have a think about how healthy it is for a society to have a bunch of people recreationally pretending to hate one another, and then do some more thinking about all the times where some shithead acts on that supposedly fake hatred.