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Koch Ebola

(831 posts) Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:24 AM Aug 2020

Has sports been politicized?

For the last 8 decades sports has been politicized. It started with Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany all way to the 1968 Olympic with Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the black power salute and beyond. So has sports been politicized? I explore this question in my Blog. I will go through my history of being a sports spectator starting in 1969 until the pandemic of today.

Click below.
https://stephenjaymorrisblog.tumblr.com/

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Has sports been politicized? (Original Post) Koch Ebola Aug 2020 OP

Politics and sports have always been intertwined unc70 Aug 2020 #1

The Ancient Olympics... ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #5

Politics has been sportized htuttle Aug 2020 #2

I do enjoy Stephen Jay Morris. Alliepoo Aug 2020 #3

Sports forums are chock-full of right-wingers. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #4

Sports is where they train you to be a blind follower, long as it's your team. Iggo Aug 2020 #6

unc70

(6,109 posts)

1. Politics and sports have always been intertwined

Reply to Koch Ebola (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:52 AM

Aug 2020

It goes back millennia. The peculiarly American versions of these relationships are at least as old as the Republic. It did not start in 1936.

ProfessorGAC

(64,885 posts)

5. The Ancient Olympics...

Reply to unc70 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:01 PM

Aug 2020

...began as a nationalistic exhibition.
This has been going on for nearly 2&1/2 millennia.

htuttle

(23,738 posts)

2. Politics has been sportized

Reply to Koch Ebola (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:56 AM

Aug 2020

Alliepoo

(2,209 posts)

3. I do enjoy Stephen Jay Morris.

Reply to Koch Ebola (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:06 AM

Aug 2020

Thanks for posting his blog.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)

4. Sports forums are chock-full of right-wingers.

Reply to Koch Ebola (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:45 AM

Aug 2020

I think right-wingers are more attracted by competition rather than cooperation, so sports tends to be more appealing to them.

Not that liberals can't be sports fans too. I'm a fan of some sports, and others on DU are obviously fans too. It's just that I've seen more right-wingers than usual on sports forums. If some political issue is brought up, I pretty much expect to see 90% of the forum members who reply to espouse the Republican position.

That's been my experience for Ohio sports teams, anyway.

Iggo

(47,537 posts)

6. Sports is where they train you to be a blind follower, long as it's your team.