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Monday, February 03, 2025
Time is a flat circle, sport-and-speech edition
My first published article at FIU, Symbolic Counter-Speech, explored the idea of using symbols to protest the symbols themselves. Examples included events up to and at the start of the Iraq War, when Canadian baseball and hockey fans booed Star-Spangled Banner to protest the U.S.-led war and U.S. baseball fans booed Oh, Canada because Canada did not support the war. (Surprisingly, the U.S. did not go so far as to rename it "Freedom Bacon").
Reports of Canadian hockey fans booing the anthem in response to President Trump initiating a trade war with Canada shows we have gone nowhere in 22 years.
Update: Fans at a game between Nashville and Ottawa in Nashville booed Oh Canada. Free speech for me and for thee.
Posted by Howard Wasserman on February 3, 2025 at 08:19 AM in First Amendment, Howard Wasserman, Sports | Permalink
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