Pacquiao hasn’t responded to Mayweather’s tweet because he’s too busy doing regular things, like
-not beating the shit out of his love interest and threatening to kill her in front of his children
-not threatening to beat his children also
-not beating women at a nightclub
-not making a racist video using anti-poc caricatures in a fucked-up attempt to denigrate his opponent
-not attempting to pick up the slack by making a subsequent apology video that is just as ignorant
-being polite to people who interview him since he’s aware it’s a huge privilege to get paid shitloads of money for doing nothing other than beating the shit out of someone else when other people are bending over with back pains to sew shoes for less than minimum wage
(okay, so it’s not verified that he’s actually aware, but still, pacquiao is classy. well, classier)
-endorsing a bunch of shit like an athlete on their down-time is supposed to
-not exploiting his status as a lionized being to delay justified punishment for being a terrible, terrible person
-doing his best to use his status in a positive way in a sort-of-admirable-but-mostly-amusing attempt to salvage a crumbling nation versus popping up in the news repeatedly as a testament to how his nation (and society in general) is crumbling
-running on a treadmill versus running his mouth
-learning from the agonizing climax of his last battle versus reveling in the cheapness of his victory
-being a good global citizen versus being a bitch-assfigures, america would invest millions in a sport where powerful white people set up opportunities for poc to beat the shit out of each other
Great points, A!
