Dave Zirin Quotes

• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Native American, Racism

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• Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

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  Sports, Purpose, Lines

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• I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

  Dave Zirin

  Country, Mean, Dark

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• This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.

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  Frustration, Men, World

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• The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

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  Urban, Building, Stadiums

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