Celtics and Warriors taking stand against gun violence

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Link to tweet

[meadowlander]

1. Ouch. Who picked orange as the solidarity colour for the Celtics to stop gun violence?

That's a geopolitical history fail.

[MerryBlooms]

3. Google, Wear Orange.

I would link and educate you, but I can't figure out how to on my phone. Orange has been the color since 2015. Celtics didn't choose the color. There's No Fail here, on the Celtics part.

[meadowlander]

4. You first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Order

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/02/northernireland.rostaylor

Orange has been the colour of choice for Protestant sectarian violence in Northern Ireland since 1688.

So, I'm sorry, but its pretty historically tone-deaf for a team calling itself the "Celtics" to wear orange shirts to promote gun control no matter when or how that became "the color".

[MerryBlooms]

5. Your links have nothing to do with American gun

Violence protest, or Steve Kerr supporting what wearing orange means at this time in America and school children massacre. I don't see anywhere in your post, linking the American basketball team Celtics, supporting Violence anywhere.

I respect your stand, I disagree dogging Kerr and the Celtics for showing support against school children massacre. Hope you understand my view too.

Have to be done with this, I work in the morning.. g'night.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. We're not Northern Ireland.

And when people wonder why "we" lose, this is a good reason why: people on our side nitpicking the silliest and most trivial of shit rather than simply supporting a just cause.

[meadowlander]

7. If you're not Irish or Irish American, you may not get it.

The Orange Order is a terrorist organisation that spent decades perpetrating bombings and extrajudicial killings against Catholics in Northern Ireland in support of colonial rule there. They conspired in government to deprive Catholics of access to housing, health care and education to prevent a Catholic majority voting them out of power.

That is not "silly or trivial shit" either to the people in Ireland or to the tens of millions of their descendants driven out of the country to live the US, many of whom reside in Boston and are, you know, the reason the basketball team there is called the Celtics.

Believe it or not, there are ways to oppose gun violence without picking a shirt color. Or wear an orange shirt if you want to. I just think it's historically tone deaf and a bit silly. Which is all I said in my previous posts.

It's like wearing a Union Jack to support independence protestors in Hong Kong. Is it doing harm? Probably not that much. Does it make you look like you're shockingly lacking in self-awareness and historical perspective? A bit, yeah.

[W_HAMILTON]

8. It is silly and trivial and works against the overarching point.

You have basically derailed a gun violence thread into talking about Northern Ireland.

That is a failure on a lot of levels. And it happens far too often with people on our side.

[meadowlander]

9. Nobody is stopping you from posting about anything else you want on this thread.

I made a simple observation about something I found funny and ironic.

You're the one turning it into a meta commentary about "people on our side".

[W_HAMILTON]

10. You have derailed the conversation talking about the fucking COLOR that was chosen.

Way to miss the point.

[Demovictory9]

2. Uh oh..desantis wont allow them to play in Florida