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Business story plus sports story equals politics thread
09-04-2018, 11:41 AM
Nike shares drop after choice of Colin Kaepernick for ad spurs boycott
A 3% drop in share price is never fun. Mind you, "Old angry white guys are not a core demographic for Nike." - Matt Powell, a senior advisor with market research firm NPD Group
Canadian Football League launches "Diversity Is Strength" campaign
"Be the true north strong and free (to express yourself)"
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RE: Business story plus sports story equals politics thread
09-04-2018, 05:23 PM
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
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RE: Business story plus sports story equals politics thread
09-04-2018, 06:22 PM
I adore how proud some of these racist idiots are about destroying their own property that they already paid for.
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RE: Business story plus sports story equals politics thread
09-04-2018, 07:54 PM
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I keep hearing about Kapernick "disrespecting the flag". How so? As far as I know, there is no legal requirement to stand whenever a flag is within line of sight.
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09-04-2018, 08:25 PM
No, I meant the racist idiots. I mean the people who scream about the right to wave the Confederate and nazi flags at white supremacist rallies. I mean the assholes who harass and abuse the survivors of your school shootings because they believe the right to own guns no matter what is more important than a child's right to live. I mean the people who are buying Nike products solely to destroy them, failing to realise this act involves giving Nike more money.
I support their right to peacefully protest. I just find it hilarious they have so little logic involved in it. Because they're racist idiots.
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RE: Business story plus sports story equals politics thread
09-05-2018, 05:14 AM
(09-04-2018, 07:54 PM)robkelk Wrote: I keep hearing about Kapernick "disrespecting the flag". How so? As far as I know, there is no legal requirement to stand whenever a flag is within line of sight.
The argument about disrespecting the flag or the anthem is just a rhetorical cover for their real point which is: “Stop calling attention to police abuse. You are making the nation look bad.”
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
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