re: NAACP calls for boycott of anti-DEI states' colleges

[SCantiGOP]

A post from earlier today: (https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143207349) stated that "The head of the NAACP is calling on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida, challenging a new state policy that bars those institutions from using government funds on diversity, equity and inclusion programs."
Here is a letter to the editor I wrote several months ago about the subject:
>>>Race in sports had a major impact on civil rights in the Deep South in the 1970s. All white Kentucky lost the basketball national championship in 1966 to Texas Southwest (now UTEP) with 5 black starters. In 1970, a time when Alabama and other Southern schools could not enroll black students, Bear Bryant's all white Alabama team lost badly to a Southern Cal team led by a black running back. Knowing that SEC sports would no longer be competitive without black players led to a grudging acceptance of desegregation.
The current culture war being waged against discussion of race and past atrocities against African Americans, along with an increasing pushback against the LGBTQ community, may begin to hit home with the average voter when red state schools start losing premier athletes due to their regressive politics.
Let's see how Texas or Florida MAGAs react when the next great QB or 7 foot tall Center announces that he is retracting his long held intention to play at one of their schools, and is going instead to Michigan or UCLA because of the policies being enacted by Abbott and DeSantis and their proto-fascist legislatures.

[BOSSHOG]

1. I'm an old white guy

Solidly behind the boycott. The fact that DEI pisses off the worst among us is reason to increase the programs funding. I’ve yet to hear or read a cogent argument about how a DEI program is bad for America. Because there isn’t one.

[SCantiGOP]

2. There is one argument against DEI -

but you can only use it if you are a misogynistic white supremacist.

[BOSSHOG]

3. All conservative arguments against anything

Have no standing. DEI does not harm conservatives. Abortion does not harm conservatives. IVF does not harm conservatives. Black History Month does not harm conservatives. Social Security and Medicare do not harm conservatives. Speed Limits do not harm conservatives. Gender affirming pronouns, used or not used, do not harm conservatives. I could go on but it’s my bedtime. One more thing.

VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS IS THE BEST THING CONSERVATIVES CAN DO FOR THEMSELVES.

[usonian]

4. Cults program people to take crazy stands that in the end are self-defeating for the cult members.

My thought is that membership "legitimizes" some favorite illicit behavior that lures them in, and all the talking points are just to cohere them in the cult by smearing "outsiders".

So for the GQP, it's their old buddies racism, anti-semitism, grievance and hate for the most part. Deal with the devil brought in those religious cranks.

For the mob, it's stealing and killing. All "rationalized".

But looking from the outside, those positions against various freedoms ultimately hurts many members. It's how they're manipulated to serve their masters.

[JPK]

5. The SEC

Would freak out. The wealthy alum might pull financial support, both for the schools and for the governors that are pushing these agendas.

[MichMan]

6. I doubt that very few athletes are going to go along with this boycott

Could be wrong, but don't see it happening.