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Current Affairs Nike - Colin Kaepernick
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You don't have to cheer for them and no one is going to call you racist for not supporting them. You are fine. And no one is suggesting that blacks are being murdered daily by police "as some would have you believe"...who is "some" here? The fact that police are more likely to shoot black men then white men is what is at issue. It doesn't matter if it is daily, weekly, monthly, or every 17 years. That's worth a peaceful protest in my book. And if some people don't support the protest, but at least acknowledge they have a right to protest, that's fine too.
Fake patriots "defending the flag" really need to look hard in the mirror about why the largest sports apparel company in the world (just guessing here) would seemingly risk everything to support Colin Kaepernick.
Perhaps it's because he has a point.
Perhaps it's because he has a point.
Steve0
Player Valuation: £35m
It's also not just the killings he's protesting anyway.
bol-uk
Player Valuation: £50m
I spent about an hour last night trolling fat american biffs, most of whom liked hunting innocent animals, and loved their terrorist military. They go on about it insulting those who fought for their freedom, despite many vets being in agreement with the "taking the knee" in the first place.
When I read the comments, as I often do, I realise just how messed up American people are, in both camps.
It is all going to end in tears I can assure you.
When I read the comments, as I often do, I realise just how messed up American people are, in both camps.
It is all going to end in tears I can assure you.
Both camps? This is more of that Hillary and Trump are two sides of the same coin nonsense.
I'll call it like I see it. The far right who are running this country at a federal level are messed up.
The majority of Americans are sane, well thought out and well educated. These people are the people I meet 90% of the time. These are the people who think Kapernick has a point. These are the people who see that the president is using race relations to fire up his racist base.
There's no equivalence to be drawn between both these sides.
I'm all for Kaepernick and his freedom to protest by taking a knee and if somebody wants to set fire to a perfectly good pair of trainers or cut their socks up then go for it. But let's not pretend the fact that Nike have signed him up is nothing more than a deliberate and very cynical bit of marketing.
If they had actual moral scruples they'd be making quite a few changes to their operation. The England kit was made in factories where workers were reportedly paid as little as 21p per hour. That's the England kit that retailed for around £150....I'm guessing that kind of mark-up means they can pay athletes such as Kaepernick a very decent wedge of money to give the false impression that they are all about doing what's right.
If I was gonna boycott a major label it'd be for using sweatshops in poor asian countires and making a ton of profit by churning out mediocre gear for buttons and charging ridiculous prices.
As I never buy stuff that isn't on clearance I'm gonna keep on keeping on.
As I never buy stuff that isn't on clearance I'm gonna keep on keeping on.
Whataboutism
Sure all those things you say are true.
But they didn't have to get behind Colin in this regard, and in the process alienate a very large minority of people who would buy their stuff.
They could have continued being a company that 1) maximizes profits by operating sweat shops.
Now they are a company that 1) maximizes profits by operating sweat shops AND 2) is publicly behind the unpopular Colin Kaepernick.
Good point.
Mad isn't it they pretty much make bank on all of the jerseys and kits they sell. The NFL jerseys have 3 types and the cheapest one is $99 and the highest field jersey is $249
I see they are doing the same thing in football/soccer now. With the replica and authentic bs...
Companies like Nike probably pay more to the local governments in the countries they have those factories than the workers in the factory.
Ghoat
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That was said in broad terms - the general polar divide that doesn't allow for disagreement without broad type-casting- not at any individual here
Love how he can't even spell clothes haha!! Oh and the irony of telling them to stay out of politics, yet at the same time boycotting them because of your own political persuasion.
That was said in broad terms - the general polar divide that doesn't allow for disagreement without broad type-casting- not at any individual here
The broad terms make your whole point weak. Be more specific. What is your issue?
Otherwise you just come across as if you are more interested in defending one side of an issue and creating a straw man argument to do so. Considering the side of the discussion you decided to indirectly defend its not a good look.
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