I'd like to see Corey Simon go best two falls out of three in an intellectual sudden-death cage match with Noam Chomsky on this one. The linguist extraordinaire, who actually is a sports fan (unlike myself), says the opposite (in Harper's and in Secrets, Lies, and Democracy). Sports are inherently divisive practices -- it's always Us against Them (go Team!).
The snarky half of me wants to append to the pithy thentiment "...unless you're Rush Limbaugh, in which case racially-motivated comments about athletes are par for the course, even on national television." Would that be mean?
Phhhhft!
The snarky half of me wants to append to the pithy thentiment "...unless you're Rush Limbaugh, in which case racially-motivated comments about athletes are par for the course, even on national television." Would that be mean?
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