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Crosby responding in this manner, rejecting Subban’s comments and in fact turning it around on Subban, can be charitably interpreted as Crosby attempting to assert a sort of primacy in any relation between the two, that Subban is not established in the way that he is as a two-time cup winner. 

Of course, that explanation is charitable toward Crosby to a fault, especially given the content of Crosby’s remarks. Subban specifically refused to offer a serious response in order to avoid accidental encroachment, in order to structure a space of possible-responses that does not include the substance of Crosby’s remarks. In response to this, Crosby rejected this and instead repeated the relations at hand, engaging in a discussion of Subban that touches upon largely antiblack notions of his status as a superstar.

 “ white fragility at its finest. “ Please tell me what Sidney said has to do with him being white? Or PK being black? Why is it if PK is mentioned y’all go straight for him being black? How about him just being a person that made something up? People of all races do that!

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