(08-09-2017, 08:46 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(08-09-2017, 08:39 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I'm sorry, but that's a complete load of bull. Kaepernick intentionally offended at least half of the NFL's customer base with his actions. If I had an employee who did that he would also be gone. Being in the NFL is a privilege not a right, and Kaepernick exercised his rights in a place where his right to free speech is not protected. This is not the government sanctioning him, it's his employer, and the 1st Amendment doesn't protect him from their actions any more than it would allow me to go to church on my boss's time. Had the US Marshal arrived and forced him to stand up then I'd protest his treatment, but what he's getting is fair.

It's not bull [BLEEP]. It's the truth. Again, how am I wrong? It's cool to punch women? It's cool to slap them around? It's cool to abuse children? It's cool to cheat the game and system for a competitive advantage? It's cool to pay players under the table to deliberately go out of their ways to put players out? And still get to keep their jobs? it's alright to smoke weed, snort cocaine, drink lean or take steroids? Come on. That in essence on it's own is utter bull [BLEEP] if I've ever seen it.

I don't care about all of that. I am specifically looking at the hypocrisy here of the NFL. And I am specifically looking at the hypocrisy of the massive amounts of blind little sheep that willfully and ignorantly buy virtually anything their flavor of the month has to say hook, line and sinker. 

It's pathetic. I agree. Being in the NFL is a privilege. But to say it's bull [BLEEP] that the NFL doesn't condone illegal behavior and the cheating of their own game with little to no ramifications or consequences is just ignorant sir. And that they turn a blind eye to one individual who was trying to raise awareness at a time when it honestly needed to be raised.

What kind of [BLEEP] message is the NFL sending with their hypocrisy here? We'll condone black athletes for fitting stereotypical trends off the field and give them multiple chances. Not a problem there. But, a black athlete daring to be a voice for the voiceless at the largest potential stage with the highest impact at a peaceful level until the media keeps poking and prodding at it? No, we can't have that. No way in hell can we condone that.

Those behaviors you describe are handled by the criminal justice system when appropriate and by the League office in every case. As a society we generally don't care about those things as our spending patterns indicate. We do care about Kaepernick's behaviors as those patterns also indicate. If the outcry against Joe Wifebeater was the same as that against CK then the League would react differently because we, the money, would demonstrate our interest about those things with our money. It also matters that CK isn't all that talented; much like Tebow his circus is bigger than his value.

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