this is one of a few threads where i get notifications that people are liking old posts of mine and i think “oh no, what happened now”
Matt Walsh is just an abjectly awful human being. He is dumber than a doorknob, as racist as they come, and yet talks like he is a know it all of the highest intelligence.
I can’t decide if he’s actually that dumb or just knows his audience is, so he doesn’t bother w the effort. He’s definitely not smart though.
The entire foundational underpinnings of economic libertarianism is "it is just common sense." So your post checks out.
What these guys engage in is most akin to apologetics. Start with a belief system and work backwards. It’s why they “win” debates.
matt walsh sucks a lot and I'm only ever exposed to him by people posting his tweets (but there absolutely is a racial selection bias that affects white players (RB -> LB, DB -> WR, etc) like it does black players (OL > DL, no QB))
no there is not a selection bias. Moreover, the point that "whites" get into coaching because they fail out of athletics sooner is BS. if black people make up the majority of NFL players, and the majority of NFL players don't make it more than 3-4 years in the league, then there is a gigantic pool of former black players seeking continued NFL employment that dwarfs white players. He knows this. You know this. Don't get sucked into moronic arguments about selection bias. Nobody was biased against CMC. He was a good RB and drafted as such. There are just less good white RBs for a variety of reasons unrelated to racial bias. goddamit. Don't make me bring Tobias in here
Imagine how many more white people there are in the United States and all the collective time, money, and energy is spent on youth sports for people who can afford them then imagine thinking there’s some implicit bias against them. If anything the biggest bias in sports is socioeconomic and given that and the disparate SES of racial groups, the composition of most pro sports is fucking incredible. That tells you how much more naturally capable one group is than another.
i realized my post had the potential to be piled on but i'll respond to these genuinely. i think there absolutely is a bias and i don't think it's all that controversial to believe it. maybe not a "selection bias" but certainly something similar with culture layered in. and i don't even think this is a very controversial take. i remember bomani and foxworth talked about something similar (white skill players in the SEC and white skill players in the NFL) this summer on one of their pods. to be clear, i'm not saying the NFL is necessarily looking at white RBs and saying they aren't good enough (though i'd believe all executives have their own unconscious bias so it's possible). i'm talking about this happening at developmental levels. i'm not saying anything about this but go off i guess? i am definitely not echoing matt walsh's argument that there are a bunch of aggrieved white people who should have 70% of the nfl's jobs because white people make up 70% of the country. i'm saying without biases, there are likely more white DBs (and fewer WRs) and more white RBs (and fewer LBs). never mind how other sports (and the access to them) affects the racial makeup of the league.
so you just feel that to be the case based on almost nothing. Well my guy, I've got about two decades worth of Big Ten football that tell me there are no biases, just white players who aren't good RBs and DBs.
As someone who works in the same(ish) industry as my dad did, there is such a huge advantage to just being familiar with the language specific to that industry. Absolutely signals to others that you are more competent than you actually are. So many NFL coaches are the sons of football coaches at some level. It’s a big part, that and virulent racism.
I think it's funny they seemingly can't find any qualified black coaches but they hire terrible white coach after terrible white coach
thanks Handcuffed for showing more and more people how you’re legit the dumbest and worst poster on this board