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Comment by dash2

1 day ago

Surely a big point of sport is to get young people to do healthy, character-building team activities. That requires sporting heroes they can look up to, rather than cheats who will throw a game for money.

It doesn’t require that

Representation is a powerful driver for a large swath of humans, there are many others who get inspired for other reasons, or inspired by fictional characters

I’m fine with those other traits being expressed more frequently