More liberal ‘elitist hypocrisy’
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Re “Boola boola, not moola moola,” Opinion, Jan. 1
Paying athletes would encourage them to finish their education and become more than illiterate NFL millionaires. Jonathan Chait’s claim that this would reduce scholarship money is ludicrous because he conveniently omits the athletic scholarships already offered by universities. Colleges use football players to make huge windfalls of money from TV revenues. Liberals like Chait allegedly decry labor exploitation, preaching wealth redistribution, but scoff at paying college athletes when it threatens this cash cow that helps to fund left-wing academics with their failed socialist ideas. Smells like elitist hypocrisy to me.
PAT MURPHY
Pacific Palisades
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