Trump goes too far even for Robert Kraft

you can send them to me, c/o UHub, thanks.

Some of them were pro-protest. There seemed to be a relative sanity to the back and forth. Of course, I only read the first ten or so.

Nothing like this epic from a few years ago...

Pats on Twitter (sanitized version):
https://twitter.com/Patriots/status/532907578565861376

Pats deleted millionth tweet:
http://www.businessinsider.com/patriots-twitter-screw-up-2014-11

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Just say niggers and be done with it. You know, the way you do when you’re not in a public forum?

Join the Bruins fans...it's a lily white sport, full of Star Spangled singing, standing racists.

Also you get to see if PK Subban's brother Malcolm is any kind of a decent goalie. He plays for the Bruins. Did pretty good last night.

Oh, BTW...Bruins drafted the first black player in the old six team NHL. In the fifties. He eventually played three years for them, so it wasn't a fluke.

"Roger the Clown should be thankful Trump's Twittering took the media focus off violent brain damaged players, poor ratings, and declining ticket sales for 5 minutes."

Last week in LA...six dollar seats, six dollar beers.

Trump...he can even fix the NFL!!

"The mission of the Colin Kaepernick Foundation is to fight oppression of all kinds globally, through education and social activism."

http://kaepernick7.com/

It seems to me if they're just "taking a knee," all it really does is garner attention for the player, not the problem.

That's certainly one way to look at it, and any time that gestures are being made, there's a good chance that some of those gesturing are doing so out of a desire to get attention for themselves. But, while we're guessing at people's motivations, I'd say it's pretty clear that you made your comment in an effort to discredit the protest and without any effort at all to find out whether your allegation is true. The very simplest search would have proved that there are indeed substantial efforts being made by at least some of these players.

And if there weren't, what about it? You say that they're trying to draw attention to themselves; good god, have you been living under a rock or something? Do you think that attention has been favorable? Colin Kaepernick is out of a job, and not because he was an inferior quarterback. Even if all he had done was "take a knee", it cost him his job. Assuming that you oppose police brutality, what skin are YOU putting in the game that entitles you to call out the players who take a knee?

stubborn social problem in America since its founding must just be a trendy new thing. Most people are probably only doing it because the cool kids are. The media is just doing it for the ratings. People only talk about racism because they like to stir things up.

Are you really that oblivious?

Listen, I understand racism is a problem...it's always been a problem, because it's always existed in one form or another.

Why is it that racism has become one of, if not THE country's primary focus within the past few years?

I'm not sure you really do understand, given that your second sentence provides the answer to the question in your third sentence.

Media and other elites have been hawking racism for centuries, like in the 1860s when the US fought a war against itself over race-based slavery, or the 1960s when people were all "black people should have the right to vote" and would not shut up about it. So I'm guessing we'll have to deal with it, until, you know, racism actually stops.

Racism is going to be in the news when the president is someone who was strongly endorsed by the KKK and he in turn calls white supremacists "fine people".

Why is it that racism has become one of, if not THE country's primary focus within the past few years?

Obama. He eventually announced that he regretted his initial comments that police target blacks and the "Cambridge Police acted stupidly" but you can't un-ring that bell.

Worse, Obama fueled the Ferguson violence right up until Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson was completely exonerated by not one but two Grand Juries. It was later proven that the "gentle giant" Mike Brown had beaten and robbed a small, foreign-born grocer, then beaten the officer and attempted to take his gun, only prevented by a safety holster that Brown couldn't figure out. When he came back to finish off the patrolman, he was shot.

Much was made by Obama and the media that Brown's dead body was left uncovered in the street, fueling black outrage. Crime Scene 101 teaches never to cover the body before CSI arrives, as latent evidence can be removed or added by linens after the fact. Obama could have imparted this knowledge to calm the crowd but apparently didn't know himself (Harvard Law) or he just wanted the rioting to spread.

get fired for participating in a Constitutionally-protected act of protest.

It might demand them getting fired for appearing in a lineup of speakers that includes violent neo-Nazis and hate-mongering conspiracy theorists like Kyle Chapman and Joe Biggs.

Free speech, sure: the government should not interfere with your right to speak your mind in public. But if you tarnish your company's brand by hanging out with white supremacists and raving loons that push the notion that Hillary Clinton was part of a child sex-trafficking ring, that might be a justifiable firing offense, as happened to this Brandon Navom.

The rally went on. It actually received police protection. You are drawing a false conclusion of inconsistency by abusing the facts. That is a fancy way of saying you're lying.

Perhaps Brandon should sue his employer. If Brandon did nothing to bring harm to his employer then he could sue for interfering with Brandon's ability to earn a living.

A court case would be interesting if it turned out that rally did lean toward bigoted speakers. One speaker who accepted (and then chickened out) is known as Austin Gillespie, aka, Augustus Invictus (a puffy self-important psuedonym if ever there was one). This is a man who believes in eugenics. He believes that the weakest should be sterilized. He stated this in a law school paper. He claims that he rejected the policy aspect but does not utterly reject the idea.

That makes him an intellectual descendant of the American eugenicists of the early 20th century as well as philosophical descendant of Nazis.

A rally where this kind of speaker is appropriate is a rally that is not about defending free speech. It's about giving voice to human destruction and genocide. Just as we don't yell fire in a crowded theater there are some things that simply need to stay in the mental garbage can. Sterilizing "undesirable people" (who decides who is whom?) is public speaking version of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

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