08-14-2018, 10:51 AM
(08-14-2018, 01:19 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: A reminder that this was started by a guy who made $43.5m by the age of 28, who has chosen to NEVER vote in his life, publicly praised Fidel Castro, and then declined a $16.9m player option, and has an activist girlfriend who then tanked his last job opportunity by comparing the team's owner to a slave owner on social media (she is also known for saying this... “When 9/11 happened, it didn’t surprise me at all. Wow. Mmkay. This is what we went through, probably, every couple months.”).
There is no real purpose to it all. No end game. No positive. Just a soup sandwich that was a mixture of a guy trying to distract from his declining/undeveloping skills that made him lose out in a QB competition to *Blaine Gabbert* and a guy who is apparently the type of person who changes their likes/personality/beliefs to match their significant other in a relationship (we all know those people, and this started RIGHT when they got together).
I think you nailed it. This protest is mucked up and clumsy, mainly because it was a spontaneous decision made by a guy with a history of poor decision making. There was no plan. Just a guy pissed off about losing his job to a white QB, with his radical muslim girlfriend putting ideas in his head about mass oppression via police. Btw - I don't toss the "radical" word around casually. Kaep's GF is a radical, to put it nicely.
Her twitter post about Steve Bisciotti and Ray Lewis was one of the most racist things I've seen recently...and she did this right before a scheduled visit with the Ravens. Then they complain about being blackballed.
(08-14-2018, 09:30 AM)Benton Wrote: The half upset probably aren’t going to change their mind. Mostly they’ve just been complaining about disrespecting the flag or the military or something else. But I wonder what would be the best way to reach those folks.
1. Guys like you and I are not the ones they should be trying to reach in the first place.
2. If you dig a little deeper with those offended by the form of protest, you'll usually also find that most of them also think the problem is imaginary. Or I should say exaggerated and more complicated than "cops are racists". As I said before, the real problem is how many high tension encounters we have with police. Out of millions of violent (or threat of violence?) encounters, we only have roughly a half dozen questionable shootings per year? Imo, we're doing great there.
In order to reach police with their message though, perhaps they should change their message to something other than police = KKK. For one, it's a divisive and inaccurate generalization. For two, it's going to be difficult to open dialogue with police after you slap them in the face repeatedly.
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