Kaepernick to get an all 32 team workout in Atlanta

[maust]

I didn't read the whole thread. Just saw your post, which you gotta admit,is pretty f'ed up standing on its own. I didnt

@TB_Helmet is an unabashed SJW, if anything he was poking more fun at himself than he was at me the 'can't we all just get along' moderate. We were both just having a go at how these threads jump the rails when you firmly grasped the 3rd one. Just a thought but when someone is quoting and responding to another poster it's worth following that particular dialogue before unloading on one part of it. You missed out on a chuckle or two and the result is now everyone will, unfortunate that.

Oh well, on to our next overreaction gaffe. @primetime was kind enough to give us a potential jumping off point...

Man cops get offended by everything

 

[Tony2046]

Real basic question but do people think he's dissing America or trying to put attention on police brutality. Way too many have twisted what he did.

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Actually I think some twist what his intentions were and some twist the intentions of those who oppose what he did.

"Racist"


Pig socks and Fidel shirts were dumb. Taking 8 million ( or whatever it was) from Nike to make a commercial about sacrifice and struggling was ridiculous .

The problem with Kap imo is that he picked a legitimate cause to stand for and fraudulently stood for it. He has turned a good cause into a money grab. This " tryout" is just another extension of his grabbing.

 

[Wordsmyth]

Well, I’m no professor but my food comes from a variety of places grown and processed both rural and urban, domestic and foreign, local and out of state. Like yours, I imagine. For the food distributor and seller, it’s about availability and cost and quality not about where it comes from.

Meanwhile, on planet earth, a country's food supply doesn't magically appear without the farmers who grow it. You know, those backwoods hillbillies and rubes dissed by the prof and Dropkick.

 

[Clonamery]

Man cops get offended by everything

What about lady cops?

 

[Wordsmyth]

Actually I think some twist what his intentions were and some twist the intentions of those who oppose what he did.

"Racist"


Pig socks and Fidel shirts were dumb. Taking 8 million ( or whatever it was) from Nike to make a commercial about sacrifice and struggling was ridiculous .

The problem with Kap imo is that he picked a legitimate cause to stand for and fraudulently stood for it. He has turned a good cause into a money grab. This " tryout" is just another extension of his grabbing.

Legitimate? ROFLOL! You mean the poor, oppressed and impoverished millionaire crybaby who lives in a mansion and flaunts expensive sportscars?

 

[Wordsmyth]

Real basic question but do people think he's dissing America or trying to put attention on police brutality. Way too many have twisted what he did.

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He did a good job of that all by himself.

 

[Clonamery]

Meanwhile, on planet earth, a country's food supply doesn't magically appear without the farmers who grow it. You know, those backwoods hillbillies and rubes dissed by the prof and Dropkick.

So you are standing up for farmers or rural folks? Maybe they saw an episode of Green Acres and thought was a documentary.

Because farmers happen anywhere. I grew up in Nashua across the street from a retired UNH Agricultural Professor who had a mini farm with corn to squash right on the side of his house. Being a small to midsize farmer is hard work.

Carry on with whatever you’re really angry about.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

By the way just so people get a flavor, this is what Mohammed Ali went through being ostracized about Vietnam at the height of his athletic powers. He was vilified, a lot of similar comments as this thread . History was kind to him 20+ years later.

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

Sure. But in the end, it’s up to you whether you’re offended by it and let it ruin your day or not. Way too many people are too soft and too easily offended these days. We gave pus$ies a forum where people can hear them (social media) and this is what we’re getting. A Charming-soft society. Those socks are the pitfalls of free speech, my dude. People are allowed to say and do some dumb stuff. The good thing is that you’re also allowed to mock them in return and the NFL, as a business, has a right to decide whether his talent is enough to put asses in seats and compensate for his unpopular protest. They saw their revenues decline for a short period of time (mostly because their core ticket holders and supporters are also those with the most buying power right now - boomers) and pulled the plug on him real quick. This is merely just a dog and pony show meant to try to avoid an expensive lawsuit.

I didn’t say I was offended by it, but I think that’s absolutely the purpose of wearing those socks.

 

[Kontradiction]

I didn’t say I was offended by it, but I think that’s absolutely the purpose of wearing those socks.

Of course. His protest was a complete failure because the message was lost, so he went the troll route.

 

[Tony2046]

Legitimate? ROFLOL! You mean the poor, oppressed and impoverished millionaire crybaby who lives in a mansion and flaunts expensive sportscars?

Haha. No. He was kneeling for what he felt was unfair treatment of African Americans by the police force or in support of BLM.

Although I disagree with the attention grabbing battle cries such as " cops are racists", I still think it was an important issue that needed attention. Kap cheapened the conversation with his own personal agenda.

 

[Tony2046]

By the way just so people get a flavor, this is what Mohammed Ali went through being ostracized about Vietnam at the height of his athletic powers. He was vilified, a lot of similar comments as this thread . History was kind to him 20+ years later.

Except Ali actually sacrificed something. The biggest title in the world at the time. Kap sacrificed sitting on the bench.

 

[maust]

Although I disagree with the attention grabbing battle cries such as " cops are racists", I still think it was an important issue that needed attention. Kap cheapened the conversation with his own personal agenda.

That to me goes to the real core of the non agenda driven reasoning person's antipathy towards Kaepernick. At best he is a dilettante, at worst a self serving charlatan. Either way he has done his espoused cause more harm than good with the people it most needs to reach out to.

 

[Froob]

Legitimate? ROFLOL! You mean the poor, oppressed and impoverished millionaire crybaby who lives in a mansion and flaunts expensive sportscars?

That doesn’t mean he can’t stand up for people that are less fortune.

 

[maust]

By the way just so people get a flavor, this is what Mohammed Ali went through being ostracized about Vietnam at the height of his athletic powers. He was vilified, a lot of similar comments as this thread . History was kind to him 20+ years later.

Ali had the strength of his convictions. He not only lost his title and fortune, he did time for it. No one should confuse Kaepernick with Ali, the comparison is a straight up insult.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Haha. No. He was kneeling for what he felt was unfair treatment of African Americans by the police force or in support of BLM.

Although I disagree with the attention grabbing battle cries such as " cops are racists", I still think it was an important issue that needed attention. Kap cheapened the conversation with his own personal agenda.

Professional athletes don't add anything to the conversation. They're kids. Their education is limited (HS diploma or 1-2 years of a "studies" major). The only thing they understand is that they get a pat on the head (and money) from corporate sponsors when they push SJW non-sense.

 

[Joker]

and now, another modern twist on an old favorite...

why did the chicken cross the road?

WTF do I care ? I HATE chickens...I see a chicken I run the goddamned stupid bird over..

 

[Wordsmyth]

That doesn’t mean he can’t stand up for people that are less fortune.

But it rings of hollow virtue signalling. It would be more meaningful if a much more middle-class or poor person were doing it.

 

[Wordsmyth]

By the way just so people get a flavor, this is what Mohammed Ali went through being ostracized about Vietnam at the height of his athletic powers. He was vilified, a lot of similar comments as this thread . History was kind to him 20+ years later.

Spoiled rotten Kap is not worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as the Greatest.

 

[Froob]

But it rings of hollow virtue signalling. It would be more meaningful if a much more middle-class or poor person were doing it.

They can’t because they don’t have the platform. He’s out there in the community actually putting his money where his mouth is, that doesn’t ring of hollow virtual signal.