Couple decades ago, sports just simply just sports itself. Clay Travis From New York Post Gives readers his own view on sports and politics in his article “The era of the sports god who shuns politics is sadly over.” He mentioned in the old days sports are where people can find peace and joy regardless of their gender, race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. He indicated that it sports didn’t exacerbate society, politics tension. However, “American looked to sports as a welcome diversion from the challenge we faced.” Unfortunately, things have changed with the introduce of social media in recent decade. He believes that social media become a “fun house” to people where we can freely express our negativity and anger without consequence. It gives us illusions from reality and become a safe house for “tribes of active users”. A group of activists frequently express controversial, aggressive message on online platform who try to convince individuals holds a different opinion from them with the mindset that their opinion are the only right ones. In his own word, he says, “Social media, especially Twitter, the media’s drug of choice, is always convinced everything is evil” Sports sadly didn’t survive from the drug of social media. He mentioned now days, sports media, institutions and players instead of focusing on sports itself, they start to get involved with society tension and politics.

It’s a controversial paragraph in my opinion. A lot of main points are sensitive topic to discuss. Coming from his conservative perspective and history, I can see his point. Professional players, institution should just focus on the score board instead of talking knee during the national anthem. I do agree that we watch sports because of the love and passion we have for it, a place where everything is equal, well most of time it is. However, when politics in involved, it do change it a bit, its not a place where we can go to the shortly avoid the trouble we face every day. In the other hand, i do hold different opinion towards social media. Yes, it can be toxic some time, but that’s not all of it. I believe most of the educated modern citizen knows how to identify what can be true on the internet and what must ignore. Social media are a place where we can openly state our believe and discuss with individuals from different city, country about anything that they care about. However, most of time people sincerely believes his or her own opinion are the right ones and strongly hope others would accept it. But who is here to define what is absolutely right or wrong?