"politics have no place in sports" no shut up.

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*I'm ranting here because I don't feel like logging into my sports account.

Context matters. Life doesn't exist in a vacuum, and everything is interlinked and not understanding the context of events (or worse yet, blatantly ignoring the context) is not only incredibly stupid but also incredibly damaging. People that ignore the context of an event

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Honestly though it's like people just want to live in their own worlds re: politics in sports. We signed an Egyptian player who said he'd never shake hands with a Jew before, but now he's signing for Jewish owned Chelsea. So that's important and probably has significance.