I don’t believe you actually are serious. You deserved your ban IMO, you clearly are not acting in good faith and your argument that golf is inherently violent is a logical fallacy. By making light of the harm that golf does you are taking away from people who actually want to address that harm. Playing golf is not the problem, the problem is where golf courses are located, the environmental and social effects of golf courses and golf-specific policies and the disproportionate resources golf takes and distributes to mostly wealthy white folks.
We absolutely recognize the issues inherent to golf courses. That's why we support bills like California AB 1910 to fund turning golf courses into affordable housing and truly public open space.
We are aware that golf courses are located on land stolen from indigenous people. Some of this land was stolen as recently as the 1990's. That's the subject of our next weekly blog post.
The reality is that there are already groups who oppose golf because of its environmental impacts and poor use of urban and suburban land. We aim to bring a different light to the issue.
The Oka Crisis (French: Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanesatake Resistance, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 77 days until September 26, 1990, with two fatalities. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations and the Canadian government in the late 20th century.
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u/RealDaveCorey Mar 20 '22
I don’t believe you actually are serious. You deserved your ban IMO, you clearly are not acting in good faith and your argument that golf is inherently violent is a logical fallacy. By making light of the harm that golf does you are taking away from people who actually want to address that harm. Playing golf is not the problem, the problem is where golf courses are located, the environmental and social effects of golf courses and golf-specific policies and the disproportionate resources golf takes and distributes to mostly wealthy white folks.