Shareefruck
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Where that analogy falls apart is the reality that the suffering of Canucks fans is ultimately built on something that doesn't matter half as much as we like to treat it, is probably more than a little silly, and reacting to it with extreme, potentially destructive passion is a lot less justifiable than cases of actual, genuine, meaningful suffering.And by the way. Let’s stop treating people who make death threats as though they’re so different from you or I or even the players. For example, in the heat of the moment even a high character guy like Erik Gudbranson made a death threat to Matt Martin which the only problem people had with it was he didn’t follow through.
At the end of the day this boils down to this fan base being extremely passionate. Probably the most passionate in the league. If not top 3. If you look it up, the root word of passion is suffering which makes perfect sense. Canucks fans have suffered more than almost every other fan base. So other people judging are totally ignorant. The suffering of Canucks fans creates a cause and effect relationship between passionate fan responses like sending death threats. To expect Canucks fans to act like monks is unrealistic. It would be nice but so would world peace. Expecting Canucks fans to forget their suffering is like expecting African Americans or First Nations Canadians to forget what they’ve been through and not be angry about it and act like they never suffered. It’s total ignorance.
Perhaps being top 3 most passionate in the league is actually a bad thing that we should feel a little bit ashamed and embarrassed about.
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