Disruptive Success

Some are so threatened by Deion's non-traditional approach & immediate success that they're bending over backwards to find something to criticize.

Double OT comeback win over a rival...and they shouldn't celebrate?

The agenda is obvious. Sunglasses, celebrations...what next? https://t.co/XZVhjRigif

— Stephen Espinoza (@StephenEspinoza) September 17, 2023

This isn't a race thing, although sometimes race is a factor, I think its more of a process thing.

A lot of people, particularly a certain type of conservatives, hate non-traditional success, and I don't even think they know they hate it. When someone achieves success in an untraditional way, something inside of them burns. Their insides twist in a cool fury spawned from ignorance.

And they don't know why.

They can't verbalize it, much less understand it, but they start pointing out things they do understand, which is where the "Sun glasses" "celebrations" comments come from. 

"He got lucky."

"He cheated."

That's the point. They have to criticize something because the success is messing with their entire world view. It's like I said before, their ego is more important than reality.

Meanwhile, the people who aren't hating or mad will use another phrase.

"He's ahead of his time."

Never mind the fact that non traditional success becomes the standard a decade later, at which point, the people who first achieved non traditional success are either forgotten entirely, or the narrative around them retconned.