““Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them.””
The quote satirically suggests coaches pretend to ignore harmful remarks by claiming an unseen cosmic filter, exposing the absurdity of denial in institutional racism and sexism.
In simple terms: Coaches claim a mythic filter to ignore bigotry.
Denial masks systemic prejudice.
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Some may view the metaphor as exaggeration, reducing perceived seriousness.
