Earlier this week, a group of Chicago Blackhawks fans chanted “basketball” at Washington Capitals winger Devante Smith-Pelly. The 25-year-old is black, and the implication of the chant was clear: the fans insinuated that Smith-Pelly didn’t belong on the ice. They were booted from the game.
He eventually confronted them.
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People who think that any prejudice is some cosmic injustice — and can be defeated by yelling "Racist!" at the offending perpetrator — are grossly under-appreciating the fact that the human brain is a pattern-matching machine. It uses differentiation and integration — just like you learned in calculus class! — to form generalities about everything it perceives in its' environment (and people are just another kind of object in our environment). It does this because generalities/stereotypes are a form of information compression, an artifact of evolutionary biology caused by three facts:
1. Plentiful food is a recent development. During most of human history, food was scarce, so energy conservation, including mental energy, was a key attribute for survival. i.e., Burning neural pathways with details that were rarely needed was an inefficient use of resources.
2. Language is a recent development. During most of human history, there was little to distinguish individual people except the attributes & behaviors we sensed with our eyes.
3. We can never predict when we'll be confronted with potentially safety-critical situations + no time to investigate & acquire more detailed information.
Racism/prejudice/stereotypes are NOT a set of draconian rules applied to every member of a group. Instead, they're qualitative statistical heuristics about other human’s likely behavior (a) as a function of SORRGA (sexual orientation, race, religion, gender, age), and (b) derived from some combination of
* our own experience
* the anecdotal stories of others in our social network
* news stories we see in mass media
* real statistics (in the rare cases that we encounter them, understand them, and trust their sources)
Blanket RACISM IS ALWAYS EVIL edicts are wrong because their justification fails to account for the (grave) risks and (small) rewards of the false-positive and false-negative cases that can occur if we ignore stereotypes. Evolution favors That Which Helps Me Survive, not That Which Appeases Intellectuals, "Community Activists", and University Professors in the Social Sciences.
I played basketball all the way through college. Got told once I looked like a tennis player. Still waiting on my check to my charity.
So, someone looks at him, and says “basketball,” and there needs to have money raised? This shit is so out of hand, it’s not even funny
It's just fake news they use sports, comedy, movies, etc. to keep all the racial tensions high if everyone wouldn't stop feeding the beast eventually it will starve and die.
I swear white people sometimes…
Dude i thought that was lil scrappy playing hockey 😂😂
Yo charities DONT FUCKING FIX RACISM !!!! FOH
"Raise money "….?? Wtf…the guy makes millions and you do a " we sorry those people said a slur so we are donating $$ to a charity of your choice"…wow talk about feeling guilty of something … hilarious.
Ban me?
I’d pull the “NHL has publicly embarrassed me on television resulting in a loss of earnings due to work related problems this has started”. White folks know what I’m talking about. You sue happy geniuses you.
Unfortunately, Chicago is filled with racist white people. Glad Smith made a positive out of a negative.
There will always be assholes no matter what till the end of time
CHICAGO
This shit only happens in Boston blah blah blah I'm sick of hearing that shit. it's an American problem
😤 I hate being white sometimes
Who are those racist fans who got banned? Find them and make they lives hell!!
That's fucked up that like a white guy break dancing n every1 yells GOLFER r some shit
y’all didn’t even know what hockey was till something with race came up
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS WHY ARE PEOPLE MENTIONING IT
Once again .. Complex has no Content .. 3rd Vid. This week on Racist Shit.
Basketball! Wait that's racist here goes 20g's.🤔
You can only say racist things at a comedy show movies or music duh. #propaganda
I thought that was Ice Cube’s son on the thumbnail
Hockey has some of the most racist fans in sports, this is why it’ll never be taken seriously like football or basketball. Bunch of racist white boys in stupid city’s like buffalo
Keep ya money, this is America n it doesn't change
Charity donations? Really
I thought white people can't be racist? Or at least that is what I've been told by white people.
So-called white people are the only racist people in America
Wow complex get a white guy to talk race relations while you have black people on staff I have to give you props honestly would hate to see Frazier cover this.
First time hearing about a black hockey player and this the headline🤔😂
Wow this some poosy shit lol.