what happened in 2021, when they argued major league baseball all-star game should be pulled out of atlanta. that was over voting rights. jim crow dot 2.0. set voting election under this, it looks foolish. we talk about bias on this show often and it is justified. here we forget that sports media is probably more biassed than political media when you see this come out of the washington post. todd: we did a story charles barkly calling out espn on race baiting, how can you have a white m.v.p. story and kevin blackstone does a lot with espn, it is based on lack of understanding of ron desantis policy to begin with. ron desantis is not
what people in florida will say how this will affect their economy? if you have no skin in it, stay out of it. joe: kevin blackstone is a professor at university of maryland, has no skin in the game in florida. think, if you took the teams out of florida, what does that do to businesses? spring training is big around them. ush cs them. east and west coast of florida, why are they doing this? kevin blackstone is arguing there is an attack on diversity by ron desantis. only attack on diversity is kevin blackstone, washington post, on diversity of thought because he disagrees with ron desantis, the guy who won by 20 points in november, won in democrat counties like palm beach and miami dadesxchl we saw
fox & friends weekend cohost, well, before we get into it, let s set the stage a little, take a look at this from the washington post. it is 15 franchises that started to spring training last month in florida should consider the annual exercise and all cactus league affair as well as desantis has an attack on diversity. after all so many of the issues desantis has made noise standing against are the same issues baseball has made noise standing for in recent years. what you say? i say what we just read or what you just read to us is full of absolute pure dishonesty. kevin blackstone the columnist for the washington post who wrote this is asking major league baseball to be yet even more politically left-leaning and an advocate. it is someone who always sees sports as a conduit through which to push leftist ideology. leftist politics. every single week, he is dishonestly asking people or rather asking but forcing
major league baseball, the nba, sports stars to adopt his radical, political point of view. and i would say to you or anyone in this to the point of dishonesty, what is the definition of diversity? do you see? because kevin blackstone says anybody who dares to question material being read to 9-year-olds with. gillian: the liberal orthodox. which he put a stop to but they can t define diversity and won t define diversity. i think it s very, very important and fascinating you say the clip with bernie sanders and bill maher were bernie sanders couldn t define equity purity couldn t tell you the difference between equity and equality. they are trading on these words as br buzzwords as a trojan hore for the entirety of their political ideology. john: the word i ve heard equality and equity ascribe is that inequality gets everybody to the same place at the starting gate, equity makes everybody finish the same and
holds back high achievers so that lower achievers can look like they are doing better. this really smacks of what happened with stacey abrams when she put pressure on major league baseball as we said at the top of this to move the all-star game out of atlanta because of georgia s new voting law under which of november 2022 they said voting records. that s right. so i don t expect, i don t think major league baseball will make the same mistake twice. and don i don t think it s because they have had a come to because they have seen the principal view of what di are largely s which is a neo-racialist segregationist movement in the united states of america partner primarily focused skin color. i think you ll see the light for trick or. yet to see people like kevin blackstone and stacey abrams will never be satisfied. it s not enough to move spring training out of florida, it s not up to move the all-star game of georgia. it s only a moving bar until the next thing. is a litmus or purity