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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco
This is the twenty-sixth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.
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Re: Random Hockey Stuff
(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 05:33 am (UTC)(link)That's good to hear! I realize my comment might have been misleading -- Jenny was the only player I follow who follows Hillary, but I knew she couldn't be totally alone. I don't follow the folks you mentioned (though now I feel like I should). And of course there are likely other Hillary supporters in hockey who just don't use Twitter to follow her -- Ben Scrivens, for instance.
And that is a reassuring perspective, re: Trump. Because some of the followers who popped up ehen I checked were...unpleasant surprises.
Re: Random Hockey Stuff
(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 05:52 am (UTC)(link)I should mention that a good handful of those players following Hillary also follow Trump as well! That was what taught me to be wary about judging people on their follows. I think Angela Ruggiero, for example, has followed Trump from the time she was on the Apprentice. A lot of hockey players imo just don't strike me as politically aware enough to really classify them as "Democrat" or "Republican" as much as just well-meaning but uninformed on a lot of issues. Some others are probably just following multiple candidates in order to be aware and informed. What's more suspicious is when someone follows every single relevant disgusting Republican politician from the last two election cycles (Brent Burns, Cam Janssen), or when they followed Trump at around the time of his acceptance of the Republican nomination (Brandon Dubinsky), and of course, when they tweet overt Trump support or other gross shit (James Neal, Kelli Stack, the Lamoureux, Clayton Keller).
I don't know about Hillary supporters specifically, but some other players/former players who are politically aware and progressive/liberal/leftist according to their tweets are Mike McKenna (<333), Jakob Chychrun, Devante Smith-Pelly, and Brent Johnson. Also, fwiw, Tara Watchorn, Jonathan Toews, Kevin Westgarth, and Hayley Williams follow Bernie Sanders.
Re: Random Hockey Stuff
(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 05:58 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, it's hard with celebrities to figure out where they stand. When I did the same "check" on my public/realname account, where I follow mostly people I know (acquaintances and former coworkers included), it was relatively easy to tell the people who follow both candidates because they want to know what's going on and the people whose expressed views make it clear they're following Trump because they like him. But you're also right that most hockey players probably don't even give a shit about politics.
(I do not understand at all how women's hockey players can support Trump. At least with the dudes, I understand how it's all tied into the culture they've been in since they were very young, but I guess I expect better of women. I probably shouldn't.)
Re: Random Hockey Stuff
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(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 06:05 am (UTC)(link)Re: Random Hockey Stuff
(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 06:11 am (UTC)(link)The thing with the women's hockey players is that their twitter accounts are much less followed and less scrutinized than the men's, and less subject to PR control. So if you have this many of the top women's players openly supporting Trump or expressing pro-Trump sentiments (or anti-Black ones, in the case of the Brianne McLaughlin and the Lamoureux), when the women are generally more well-educated, less privileged, living more in the "real world" than their male counterparts... what do the politics on men's side look like? That's why I sort of shook my head sadly when someone tried to connect polls of "college-educated young white men" to trends in the NHL. It doesn't work that way in such a specialized, closed, privileged community steeped in its own particular values and traditions. Mike McKenna has said that he thinks he is in the "extreme minority" of US hockey players (male ones, I presume) supporting Obama (this was during the 2012 election), and he mentioned offhand actually trying to have these discussions with his fellow players before and not getting through to them.
Re: Random Hockey Stuff
(Anonymous) 2016-07-28 06:00 am (UTC)(link)And also Georges Laraque!! Who also tweeted his support of the NBA pulling their All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of the bathroom bill! <3