this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
137 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22768 readers
405 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Being too intensely interested in football.
Football is a popular working class pastime, a great way to get exercise and a great way to socialise as a player or as a fan. Literal billions enjoy football worldwide and there's nothing wrong about that.
But then there's the kind of guy who is so much into football that he makes it a defining part of his personality. These kind of guys are more likely than not to be aggressive and nasty chuds.
Reminds me of the brother in Get Out who monologues about it.
Football guy/girl is like an archetype in every European social circle.
Americans do this with American football too
90% of Eastern European football-obsessed fans are fascists.
I think this is called sublimation. "I, the petite bourgeois / labor aristocrat who benefits from capitalism but is still humiliated by the fact that I am not a billionaire and never will be no matter what I do, must pour my rage at the system in some other direction, since destroying the system will, at the very least, temporarily inconvenience me."
I agree that being into football in a certain way just screams "i like getting into fights", but depending on the club that may also mean "i like to punch nazis every weekend".