Steve Sailer and the Queering of Sports Reporting

 

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By Nicholas Stix

Within a brilliant article on the rise of so-called transgenderism as this week’s political hobby horse of the Left, Steve Sailer muses on sportwriters’ idiotic political leanings:

You may wonder why World War T seems to have broken out first on the sports page. Yet there’s a reason why run-of-the-mill sportswriters have long been among the most dopily politically correct for years. Political correctness is a war on noticing, and it’s harder to not notice patterns when watching sports than almost anywhere else in life. If you turn on ESPN, you’ll notice that on average, blacks can outjump and outsprint whites, that straight men and lesbian women like sports far more than do gay men and straight women, and that men are much better than women at sports. Indeed, the rare transgender sportsman tends to make a farce out of the Plessy v. Ferguson world of women’s sports. Hence, mediocre sportswriters have often been among the most militant enemies of noticing.

Simmons, though, is perhaps the best sportswriter of the Internet era precisely because he’s a terrific pattern recognizer. He doesn’t go into locker rooms to ask what pitch the slugger hit. Instead he inhales information from numerous sources and checks the implications against the other sources. But that independence of mind also means that Simmons is always in some danger of being ratted out as a closet crimethinker.

[World War T, Taki’s Mag, January 22, 2014.]

I have a simpler explanation: Sportwriters are no more PC than their non-sportswriting newsroom colleagues, excepting for the occasional, older science writer, and even those are exceptional. (Cornelia Dean, the New York Times’ retired science editor, is a particularly vicious feminist.) Both groups have the same attitudes. Indeed, failure to regularly display such attitudes is a firing offense.

Several years ago, a major national reporter told me of how he had submitted what he had thought was an innocuous manuscript to his editor, who in turn suddenly made dark, veiled charges against him. The reporter felt a chill run down his spine, and feared his job was in danger.

The difference in public practice between sportswriters and alleged hard news reporters is that, due to the tradition of sports page editorializing, sportswriters are permitted to be out and queer, while alleged news reporters are obliged to stay in the closet and pass as straight, that is, to appear to be objective. However, more and more supposedly straight “reporters” are dropping the ruse and using politically charged language.