Star QB Aaron Rodgers Goes Off on ‘PC Woke Culture’ That Tries to ‘Silence People’ After Coming Under Fire

America’s woke tradition belongs within the Silly Bowl, in keeping with Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers, by no means afraid to share his ideas, drew much more consideration than standard after an interplay with Chicago Bears followers on Sunday. He had simply run for a landing that helped seal the Packers’ 24-14 win over the Bears when he advised followers “I nonetheless personal you,” in keeping with Fox News.

The criticism he obtained for the comment was nonetheless recent when he appeared Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Present.”

Rodgers bemoaned “the state of our media” earlier than honing in on “the state of our tradition.”

The celebrity quarterback stated wokeness is rooted in discontent and a want for management.

“There’s a PC woke tradition that exists,” Rodgers stated, “and there’s a cancel tradition on the identical time, and it’s primarily based on individuals’s personal emotions of perhaps private [misery] or distaste for their very own conditions or life or simply the enjoyment of holding different individuals down beneath their thumb.”

Rodgers added that he is not going to play the tradition’s woke recreation.

“There’s a recreation inside the recreation, proper?” he stated.

“And on this recreation, there’s a participant and there’s a recreation. And if the participant abides by the principles of the sport, he’s part of the sport. Now, the principles of the sport are that you will need to acquiesce with the woke mob always. You will need to. Nevertheless, while you reside above the sport, the sport doesn’t exist, and … that’s the place I’m at.”

“I’m not part of this recreation that’s being performed. … I see it, I hear it, however to me it’s comedy.”

Rodgers stated he can rise above what woke tradition tries to inflict.

“I don’t take a look at myself as a sufferer. I don’t need individuals to really feel dangerous for me due to the highlight that I’m in and the platform that I’ve and the scrutiny that comes with it. I settle for all of it, I actually do. I don’t have an issue with it.

“I simply assume that it’s — for me, helps me to maintain sane once I can acknowledge and level out that there’s this tradition that exists, that will get off, I feel, on shrinking individuals, preserving them small, preserving them in a field, quieting them via [cancellation] or demeaning feedback.”

“I additionally exist outdoors of that in a unique realm the place I do really feel assured within the issues I say and I do stand behind what I do, and I like to talk the reality, and I’m not part of this, you recognize, woke cancel tradition that will get off on attempting to silence individuals on a regular basis.”

Outkick founder Clay Travis advised Fox that the problem runs deeper than simply Rodgers.

“I do assume that this woke tradition represents the antithesis of the whole lot that sports activities stands for — the meritocracy, excellence and with the ability to communicate your thoughts are all to me firmaments of the sports activities tradition,” he stated.