I’m really mad I learned Provorov is a homophobe after I got his jersey. The NHL is spineless
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
341 points (97.2% liked)
News
23311 readers
4455 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I am not a sports person (other than the occasional soccer match), but aren’t all of them (nhl, nfl, nba, mlb) spineless?
MLB has been pretty good LGBT support wise and the NBA is pretty good too minus some of their China hand waving. At the end of the day they’re all corporate and thus amoral but I still think there’s a spectrum in terms of actions, even if the motive is financial.
NBA is the leader. Not perfect but far and away the best.
The NBA tries to be "woke" to appeal to the kids. They pushed out a team owner who was openly racist. They don't seem to tolerate racist and homophobic jears from fans.
Most of the players are black, so they don't expect them not to comment on BLM or to all stand for the national anthem. They have had some problems with players being anti-Semitic, they have punished them enough to get them to keep their mouth shut.
Wear it with rainbow spandex tights.
Sell it. It'll lose them a sale, and you won't need to keep it.
Unfortunately he got traded so I don’t think anyone wants it. I’ll wait for someone to take his old number and do a nameplate change, I’ve seen pretty decent replacement ones from China.
It's one thing to not do pride jerseys anymore. It's a whole other level of fucked up that they are banning fucking tape. This is basically saying they do not want any openly LGBTQ players or allies of them.
An older comment of mine with a few new things added:
Common Bettman L.
Dude really just said fuck it, I am gonna die of old age in 10 years anyway, fuck the future.
Now the NHL has banned pro LGBTQ messaging, there are animated digital board ads during play, ads on helmets, ads on jerseys, gambling commercials, commentators talking about betting odds, embedded commercials during play, and still no reasonable means of legally streaming NHL games. Not to mention the snail's pace of the ongoing Hockey Canada sexual assault investigation (seriously, are they hoping everyone is just going to forget about this?), the hypocritical RNG state of the Department of Player Safety, and the NHL's tiptoeing around concussions and CTE. All under Bettman's watch.
Gary needs to go.
If your personal beliefs lead you to disrespect another group of people then your beliefs should be shown nothing but disrespect in return.
I have lots of friends who are religious and they're all totally fine with me being gay and transgender, and they love and support the pride moment, as do the churches they belong to. I have no problem with religion or personal beliefs, but I won't tolerate any belief that won't tolerate me just existing in the same world as them.
The churches are ok with it? I thought religion dictates that if you are gay you will burn in hell for eternity?
I don't go to church alot, but when I do i attend an Episcopal church with two reverends, one gay, one a woman. They sell shirts in the gift shop that say things like "I'm Episcopalian because it's okay to believe in dinosaurs".
United Church seems fine
Several Anglican churches are Catholics with gays and women leaders.
Cognitove dissonence.
Older fans like the decision. The players and the younger fans do not.
What are you talking about? The NHL is the most inclusive of all professional sports. They welcome everyone from all sorts of backgrounds. They're the inclusivest!
Was downvoting ... until "inclusivest".
Lol
It's the little things. I guess people don't pick up on them often.
I use /s so it's clear.
Sarcasm is easy to miss (imo anyway, cause I miss it often).
what about sequins ?