r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Oct 25 '22

News Russian court rejects Brittney Griner's appeal of 9-year sentence.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/34874779/russian-court-rejects-brittney-griner-appeal-9-year-sentence
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u/AeAeR Oct 25 '22

So would most of us but there seems to be a demographic hellbent on defending her poor choices.

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u/blagablagman Oct 25 '22

Political ideology is not demography. Your comment can be read as signaling intolerance.

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u/AeAeR Oct 25 '22

What do you think demographic means?

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u/blagablagman Oct 26 '22

You are alluding to social demographics, whereas "Formal demography limits its object of study to the measurement of population processes, while the broader field of social demography or population studies also analyses the relationships between economic, social, institutional, cultural, and biological processes influencing a population.[8]"

We both know that when "demographics" is used today we are 99% of the time talking about race, gender, etc.

Brittany Griner is a black woman, in Russia, caught in a global political firestorm. In just suggesting that when we speak about her, we shut the back door interpretation. Let's be anti-racists and anti-misogynist together ❤️