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A franchise in the fledgling National Women’s Soccer League felt compelled to apologize after forbidding a banner with the word “gay” on it to be displayed during a match.
The Orlando Pride supposedly deemed the banner, which criticized Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, not fit to fly. The group waving the banner, known as the Black Swans, took to Twitter to say the banner was removed for being too political.
For whatever reason, the Pride sent an apology, with the front office saying it intends to meet with the Black Swans to get to the bottom of it.
“These conversations resulted in one ultimate and important conclusion: a mistake was made when the club asked the Black Swans to remove the banner that said ‘GAY,'” the team said Tuesday in a statement.
Joint Statement from the Orlando Pride and @BlackSwansDC.
📝 https://t.co/A47S9lo8gI pic.twitter.com/MNAyF2ZPiE
— Orlando Pride (@ORLPride) March 22, 2022
The NWSL seemingly almost folds every three months, and this is what has its teams all up in arms. At any rate, this was an example of the woke eating the woke, without one group of wokes even realizing it. That’s just how twisted and confusing being ultra-woke can be for those who walk that walk.
“Our city is no stranger to the dangers that come from hateful rhetoric and intolerance. We oppose the Florida legislation which promotes ostracization and discrimination of LGBTQ+ students in our schools and their families,” the statement said.
Granted, that’s not at all what the bill is about, but truth isn’t exactly the priority in so many of these situations. For sports franchises, celebrities and the mainstream media, is often about catering to one side of the political aisle.
“It is a privilege and duty to create a safe, inclusive environment at Orlando Pride matches, and the club deeply apologizes for violating that trust through this incorrect decision. Moving forward, the Black Swans have approval to hang the banner at Pride home matches if they wish to do so,” the team said.
People are stupid and apparently are to lazy to read the bill and actually see what it says.
You have to remember, these are the same people who still chant “Hands up don’t shoot,” think Breana Taylor was an innocent nursing student, consider Jussie a victim of a hate crime, hail Lia Thomas as a woman, say Hunter’s computer and the 2016 election were Russian plots, and that white supremacy and climate change will kill us all. They don’t deal in facts or reality
Yep.
won’t take long for this fledgling soccer league to understand that most fans of any sport don’t want to be preached to. They go to games, matches, contests to forget about the outside world for a few hours.
That’s true but soccer fans generally tend to lean more left than any other sport. The club wasn’t preaching until they had to walk back a ban on a flag that fans were waving at their game.
🙄🙄🙄🙄 Who cares? Nobody watches or even knew there was a league or a team in Orlando. They should be more worried about trans dudes taking over their sport.
LOL good one !
Womens soccer no one watches that cept friends and family maybe LOL