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Goran_K says

Not the NBA, where Adam Silver threatened to discipline any kneelers, in a league where pretty much every player supported the kneeling movement.

If you say so...

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/06/11/espn-takes-massive-ratings-hit-as-nba-finals-crumble/

"Worse, compared with the final game last year, the 2018 final game was down a whopping 30 percent over Game Five from 2017 (which itself brought 24.5 million pairs of eyes to their TV sets)."

LeonDurham says

Ah yes, I forgot. If you make a million dollars, you forfeit your right to protest.

No - but that doesn't forfeit our right to call him, Nike (and their SJW fanboys) big fat hypocrites.

LeonDurham says

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.

mell says

No, you can protest all you want in your free time - and even at work if your employer allows it. Most don't.

So what does one's salary have to do with anything?

LeonDurham says

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

socal2 says

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

Are they? The article sure doesn't mention that.

LeonDurham says

So what does one's salary have to do with anything?

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.

socal2 says

No - but that doesn't forfeit our right to call him, Nike (and their SJW fanboys) big fat hypocrites.

So why is Kapernick a hypocrite exactly?

socal2 says

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.

Yes, he hasn't played QB in the NFL for 2 years. That's a pretty big sacrifice.

"Unlike NASCAR, IndyCar on NBC actually saw an uptick in ratings"
http://awfulannouncing.com/racing/unlike-nascar-indycar-nbc-actually-saw-uptick-ratings.html

Also from that article:

"With ratings struggles seen across television no matter the sport, any league that can get any increase is certainly good news."

Thanks for posting that.

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!"

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

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.

LeonDurham says

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.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

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 says

Again--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.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

LeonDurham says

Again--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.

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?

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

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?

LeonDurham says

Or a Google employee lecturing his co-workers about their culture and hiring practices, right?

Possibly. But notice it was a forum for discussing corporate culture, and those who moaned about evil White Men weren't fired.

Maybe Politics needs to be added to non-discrimination laws. Tolerance!

LeonDurham says

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?

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.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Maybe Politics needs to be added to non-discrimination laws. Tolerance!

Uh, isn't Kapernick protesting politics?

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

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.

Obviously--I'm wondering why you keep mentioning his job? Why not mention his hometown? Or favorite food?

LeonDurham says

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.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

You missed the bit where the Google Employee was discussing corporate culture on an internal forum about... Corporate Culture.

Right--so that should be grounds for being fired, right?

LeonDurham says

Obviously--I'm wondering why you keep mentioning his job? Why not mention his hometown? Or favorite food?

Why not mention his job? How is his being the primary face of the organization as an athlete NOT relevant?

LeonDurham says

Right--so that should be grounds for being fired, right?

Is it? How about the long screeds about White Male "entitlement" (aka actually knowing their job) we know was posted to that same forum?

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Why not mention his job? How is his being the primary face of the organization as an athlete NOT relevant?

How IS it revelant?

LeonDurham says

How IS it revelant?

Kapernick, as an athlete, is THE focus of the organization's primary revenue generation stream, Football Games.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Is it? How about the long screeds about White Male "entitlement" (aka actually knowing their job) we know was posted to that same forum?

That's up to the employer right? I'm assuming he was an at will employee?

Or do you want the nanny state to decide who an employer can fire too.

LeonDurham says

Or do you want the nanny state to decide who an employer can fire too.

Tell you what, let's allow firing for any reason. You agree?

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Kapernick, as an athlete, is THE focus of the organization's primary revenue generation stream, Football Games.

Yep--and why do you feel that's important to keep mentioning? That is my question. How does it affect the issue of protesting and an employer firing the employee?

You're comparing an employee using an internal forum set up for that purpose to discuss corporate culture, that nobody outside the company will see, with an entertainer deliberately making a political statement in front of paying customers at the prime revenue generating event.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

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?

LeonDurham says

I'm OK with the current laws regarding hiring and firing. How about we just abide by those?

Nah, because too many SJWs are getting into Big Tech, like they run Academia, and using it as a bully pulpit.

Don't confuse me with Rubin, Kristol, and Cuckservatives. Principles have to be balanced by Survival.

We don't let power companies or phone companies terminate user accounts for political speech they don't like, or as a result of astroturf demonization campaigns, so why allow Media Giants to do it?

He’s free to protest when not on employer clock.

LeonDurham says

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Maybe Politics needs to be added to non-discrimination laws. Tolerance!

Uh, isn't Kapernick protesting politics?

Exactly. Kapernick has the entire off-season to complain about "Whiteness"

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Nah, because too many SJWs are getting into Big Tech, like they run Academia, and using it as a bully pulpit.

At least you're honest. People you don't like are doing things you don't like so therefore you are against it. It has nothing to do with right/wrong or logic. It's just you don't want people you don't agree with having more power.

FortWayne says

He’s free to protest when not on employer clock.

Which is what he's doing. But, yet, you still seem to have a problem with it.

TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says

Exactly. Kapernick has the entire off-season to complain about "Whiteness"

lol--nice try. How about you do a little research into the cause he is advocating.

LeonDurham says

At least you're honest. People you don't like are doing things you don't like so therefore you are against it. It has nothing to do with right/wrong or logic. It's just you don't want people you don't agree with having more power.

Nope, it's because I believe that institutions can be too powerful and need to balanced out/regulated. That's actually a core liberal principle.

Whereas those who pushed to ban Jones didn't watch him - but more importantly, didn't want anybody else watching him. They seek censorship and domination by default.

Important to remember all the University Anti-Speech Radicals today were once hired by Traditional Academics. Now that they dominate all the Peer Review Boards, they will never hire a Traditional Academic that isn't an Anti-Speech SJW Radical in their turn.