• Goudewup@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    Ehm no? What person or institution or organisation do you imagine going “harrr let’s get kids into sports so that they don’t bother to learn about politics harr!” exactly? Because it’s for sure not schools that are doing that. Most schools even teach about how politics work even.

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      7 months ago

      Err, yes? Family and friends and massive amounts of peer pressure to belong. And Massive spending by the state towards such sports ofc.

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        7 months ago

        Just because a government subsidises sports (for example for health benefits) does not mean there is some nefarious plot to keep the populace from being involved in politics

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          7 months ago

          The government building massive stadiums for people to watch sports is not for “health benefits”. Cmon now. This is typical “bread and circuses” stuff.

          And it doesn’t have to be a “nyah nyah nyah” twirling mustache guy thing. Fact of the matter is that the rise of professional sports just so happened to correlate to the rise of the nation state.