I put this on facebook
"I don't demand ideological conformity--I really don't--but I do demand basic decency--which is why I would seldom boost anything by Dan Shaughnessy--yet here we are.
It pains me to say this because I love the Red Sox, but after finally appearing to get up to an acceptable norm on race over a 25 years span from Mo Vaughn to Mookie Betts, they've been sprinting backwards.
Yeah, not everyone's going to agree on policy, and that's okay. But the idea that you have a teammate or teammates in real pain from world events and you say "I don’t think right now, as a country, we should be necessarily identifying individual groups of people that need to be uplifted" as Kevin Pillar did, is evidence not only/even of bigotry and ignorance, but of a profound indifference to the suffering of others.
It's as if a player responded to veterans day at the park by saying "a lot of those guys are baby killers." It's just cruel.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but in a league full of conservative white guys, teams across the league have managed to show solidarity with their minority players. An awful lot of white guys on the Dodgers, Giants, Orioles and on and on took a knee on opening day. Not so much on the Sox.
I am so, so disappointed."