11-04-2022, 05:52 AM
Far be it from me to get inside Irving's head, but it seems he is trying to demonstrate how people get all worked up about anti-semitism, but don't seem to be - in his mind - as intolerant of institutionalized racism against black people. This is what makes it all so frustrating. Irving seems to be someone who has no hate in his heart, but he's still still not getting it. Stephen A Smith explained why in a brilliantly put way: we don't have the intellectual capacity to grasp how what he did is not him being hateful. He doesn't think he needs to apologize because it's on us to get to his level, and if we did, we'd understand.
This whole episode demonstrates how difficult it is to live in a world that employs technology to serve and celebrate the individual over the common good, even as other technology creates economic imperatives that make us more dependent on each other for survival. Balancing keeping that individualism vs. accepting the will of the majority you'd rather not accept, has always been difficult. Doing it in a world where each of us control our own experiences to the degree we do, is exceptionally challenging. This is why I love team sports and business. It's where we can set common goals and sacrifice individual egos for the greater good. Teams that do this win, teams that don't lose.
Anyway, I've been exposed to many perspectives and done a lot of thinking about the whole situation and wider contributing issues. The only reason I did was because I was made uncomfortable and had to think about things in ways I had not before, which I think is kind of Kyrie Irving's MO.
This whole episode demonstrates how difficult it is to live in a world that employs technology to serve and celebrate the individual over the common good, even as other technology creates economic imperatives that make us more dependent on each other for survival. Balancing keeping that individualism vs. accepting the will of the majority you'd rather not accept, has always been difficult. Doing it in a world where each of us control our own experiences to the degree we do, is exceptionally challenging. This is why I love team sports and business. It's where we can set common goals and sacrifice individual egos for the greater good. Teams that do this win, teams that don't lose.
Anyway, I've been exposed to many perspectives and done a lot of thinking about the whole situation and wider contributing issues. The only reason I did was because I was made uncomfortable and had to think about things in ways I had not before, which I think is kind of Kyrie Irving's MO.