Charlie Angus: WEIMAR AND THE SUPER BOWL

[Solly Mack]

4. To fight oppression, people have to accept, at the very least, being inconvenienced.

That does mean refusing to participate in the oppression.

'Natch, the NFL is trying to play down the significance. But Trump is attending the game and, like so many other American institutions, the NFL wants to be in his good books.

The NFL gets it: why piss off white dude nation with a statement that questions their ascendancy?

This gesture says so much about this moment in history. How did we get to a point where loud and stupid assholism had to be treated with deference while America's progressive tradition is in shell-shocked retreat?

Don't be shellshocked. Fight against white supremacy. Fight against what is happening in America.