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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.
but it could still be in a school tho