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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s been less of a divide at the extreme liberal schools since there’s been open discussion of the racism (particularly anti-Black racism) inherent in a lot of the anti-athlete attitudes. [/quote]

It depends on the school's "top" sports though. At many LACs, the "top" sports are sports like Lacrosse, that are almost 100% white and private school. [/quote]

Yes, but that doesn’t remove the fact that on many campuses, anti-athlete sentiment was (and is) a very, very thin cover for anti-Black racism. [/quote]

Are you saying the hostility to lacrosse bros at Amherst stems from anti-Black racism?? This makes zero sense. [/quote]

Anti-athlete sentiment in universities is frequently a cover for anti-Black racism. It doesn’t matter that the lacrosse team is white; it’s often the Black students who receive the brunt of the anti-athlete sentiment, even if they are a small percentage of the athletes as a whole on a team (and often they aren’t; on many campuses the athletic teams have a higher percentage of Black students than other groups of students).

At Amherst and other elite LACs this is also true. The hostility to athletes is and has been a cover for white liberals to engage in anti-Black racism that they otherwise wouldn’t publicly express (but that they clearly feel). The comments and nastiness directed towards Black athletes on these campuses is appalling. [/quote]

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