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Nike: Instead of bettering the conditions of our Asian slave-workers, we fight for multi-millionaire NFL kneelers rights!
You have to explain the drop off that exceeds comparable Big League Sports (ie NBA, NHL, NBA, not NASCAR) and at a pace disproportionate to the unplugging of cable.
Not the NBA, where Adam Silver threatened to discipline any kneelers, in a league where pretty much every player supported the kneeling movement.
Ah yes, I forgot. If you make a million dollars, you forfeit your right to protest.
mell says
Nike: Instead of bettering the conditions of our Asian slave-workers, we fight for multi-millionaire NFL kneelers rights!
Ah yes, I forgot. If you make a million dollars, you forfeit your right to protest. That's in the Constitution somewhere, right?
No, you can protest all you want in your free time - and even at work if your employer allows it. Most don't.
NASCAR drop is higher.
Yet the Indy Racing League's ratings are improving.
https://www.foxsports.com/nascar/story/column-indycar-on-an-upswing-as-nascar-stumbles-over-itself-040918
So what does one's salary have to do with anything?
No - but that doesn't forfeit our right to call him, Nike (and their SJW fanboys) big fat hypocrites.
Nike is saying that he "Sacrificed Everything".
Pretty sure Kap is still a millionaire and has virtually every elite media and Corporate head sucking his dick.
It's funny that the NFL's prime audience is Middle Aged and especially Boomer Seniors.
The morons don't understand 18-35 Soyboys aren't going to start watching NFL unless they switch to tag foosball and have Furries get their nuts stamped on by Rosie O'Donnell at halftime.
"oooh yeah, punish my cruel White Privilege!"
What's funny is you think that middle aged people believe what you believe.
Most middle aged people in this country don't believe a well-paid Entertainer is a hero for disrespecting the national anthem.
Again--what does someone's occupation have to do with anything? You can only protest if you work blue collar?
LeonDurham saysAgain--what does someone's occupation have to do with anything? You can only protest if you work blue collar?
Kapernick is an employee on the company dime during prime work hours.
His situation is no different than a Rockette suddenly jumping in front of the stage and lecturing the audience about supporting Genderqueer Furries or they're Nazis, just before the curtain is raised.
Or a Google employee lecturing his co-workers about their culture and hiring practices, right?
That's not what I asked. I'm wondering why you and Mell keep stressing that he's an entertainer who makes a lot of money? How is that relevant to whether or not an employer can ban his employee from free speech?
Maybe Politics needs to be added to non-discrimination laws. Tolerance!
That's what he was, that was his job. There's no doubt his actions cost the NFL at least some paying customers and created problems for the enterprise.
Uh, isn't Kapernick protesting politics?
You missed the bit where the Google Employee was discussing corporate culture on an internal forum about... Corporate Culture.
Obviously--I'm wondering why you keep mentioning his job? Why not mention his hometown? Or favorite food?
Right--so that should be grounds for being fired, right?
Why not mention his job? How is his being the primary face of the organization as an athlete NOT relevant?
How IS it revelant?
Is it? How about the long screeds about White Male "entitlement" (aka actually knowing their job) we know was posted to that same forum?
Or do you want the nanny state to decide who an employer can fire too.
Kapernick, as an athlete, is THE focus of the organization's primary revenue generation stream, Football Games.
Tell you what, let's allow firing for any reason. You agree?
I'm OK with the current laws regarding hiring and firing. How about we just abide by those?
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A Goddamn Canadian is saying the years of spending the equivalent of hundreds of billions of American (not Canadian, not Jamaican, not European) Tax Dollars was a "Global Achievement".
No it was the fuck not a Global Achievement. It was an American Achievement.