I think what Kaepernick did was really warranted, so we don't agree. But I also think that the MOST dangerous thing is our disagreeing but that a culture -- like the Nazis -- goes into lockstep, everybody who still disagrees cowers and disagrees, and "agreement" becomes first solid, then set in stone. I don't care if that's on the Left (…
I think what Kaepernick did was really warranted, so we don't agree. But I also think that the MOST dangerous thing is our disagreeing but that a culture -- like the Nazis -- goes into lockstep, everybody who still disagrees cowers and disagrees, and "agreement" becomes first solid, then set in stone. I don't care if that's on the Left (the Soviets and Chinese and Shining Path) or the Right (the Falangists, Brown Shirts, and Nazis). Terror lies at the poles, and with unlimited power in confined space. So, you stop watching football? We disagree? I'm with you: what saves us is the ability to make a principled stand IN WHICH PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO SAFETY WHEN THEY DISAGREE WITH US. Chapeau off to you, sir.
Wait mister. I think we do agree. I stopped watching the NFL because of Kap, most assuredly. Because I agreed with his principled stand and no longer supported football!
Oh!!! GOOD!!!! P.S. I'm a woman. [s] Another thing occurs to me. I think taking a principled stand -- a FLEXIBLE principled stand, a principle subject to change upon greater enlightenment and better information, is a splendid thing. However, a principled stand is not dogma, which is not subject to reason, has no flexibility, and generally enforces itself with the point of a gun or the abuse of somebody's rights. Just a wee, possibly important point! ... Oh, and I stopped watching video when I saw the surveillance video of that prayer punching the living daylights out of his girlfriend in an elevator. He should have been out of the game on the first offense of that kind, but he wasn't. That was it for me.
I hate those athlete jock damn guys who beat women, get away with it and continue on their way because they represent big paydays to teams, owners, investors, whatever.
I am a former Marine and flexibility in any doctrine assumed. So once again, agreed. Dogma can be dangerous, kind of like confirmation bias, if you take my point.
PS: I apologize for mis-identifying your gender. No offense intended, quite the contrary in fact!
I think what Kaepernick did was really warranted, so we don't agree. But I also think that the MOST dangerous thing is our disagreeing but that a culture -- like the Nazis -- goes into lockstep, everybody who still disagrees cowers and disagrees, and "agreement" becomes first solid, then set in stone. I don't care if that's on the Left (the Soviets and Chinese and Shining Path) or the Right (the Falangists, Brown Shirts, and Nazis). Terror lies at the poles, and with unlimited power in confined space. So, you stop watching football? We disagree? I'm with you: what saves us is the ability to make a principled stand IN WHICH PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO SAFETY WHEN THEY DISAGREE WITH US. Chapeau off to you, sir.
Wait mister. I think we do agree. I stopped watching the NFL because of Kap, most assuredly. Because I agreed with his principled stand and no longer supported football!
Oh!!! GOOD!!!! P.S. I'm a woman. [s] Another thing occurs to me. I think taking a principled stand -- a FLEXIBLE principled stand, a principle subject to change upon greater enlightenment and better information, is a splendid thing. However, a principled stand is not dogma, which is not subject to reason, has no flexibility, and generally enforces itself with the point of a gun or the abuse of somebody's rights. Just a wee, possibly important point! ... Oh, and I stopped watching video when I saw the surveillance video of that prayer punching the living daylights out of his girlfriend in an elevator. He should have been out of the game on the first offense of that kind, but he wasn't. That was it for me.
Agreed!
I hate those athlete jock damn guys who beat women, get away with it and continue on their way because they represent big paydays to teams, owners, investors, whatever.
I am a former Marine and flexibility in any doctrine assumed. So once again, agreed. Dogma can be dangerous, kind of like confirmation bias, if you take my point.
PS: I apologize for mis-identifying your gender. No offense intended, quite the contrary in fact!