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gym class is quite different from organized sports but this post asked for hot takes so i won't get into how physed needs to do better by non-athletes.
westerners have too much
to not violently hate the other over nothing so we should get rid of anything that enables that mentality until shithead isn't the dominant mode of thought. school sports is just an embodiment of a bigger social maladaptation.
it's social maladaption to believe sport can only enable hating people. it's very simple why a school is a convenient base for organizing sports--the kids go there every day like it's a job, it should just be fully subsidized and not be plugged into a national for-profit sport industrial complex. kids don't want to beat the shit out of each other because
it's because it's put to them that it might be their only avenue to higher education/economic advancement to kick ass in a sport. solve the economics solve the toxic competitive spirit.
my experiences as an athlete in american sports culture are a large part of why i want it burned down but I never said anything about only
it certainly did that (or normalized it, these things are rarely so explicitly top-down) when i went through the system. A bunch of those kids that definitely didn't have college sports prospects loved the shit beating part too.
US football should actually just be done away with, even in a less competitive culture everything about it for a century has been geared around beating the shit out of people.
but the culture of the severity of the competition in other sports is inflected by the college-prospects even for the non-contendors, simply to keep pace. and don't forget the coaches who drive this behavior are also justifying their employment/looking for advancement
yup and if you get rid of all that shit you aren't left with anything recognizable as the last 50+ years of american school sports.