Him leaving was an attempt to thwart their efforts because all of those e people like yourself see it as the dog whistle that they are being disrespectful and start yelling again. I'm not sure why you can't see that.

Reid clearly said no such thing. You are trying and failing to interpret his comment correctly.

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Once again, this was the Vice President of the United States doing a publicity stunt attempting to fight back against the protest which is literally about systematic oppression in our country after our idiot President said that anyone who doesn't stand for the anthem should be fired by their bosses.

Why can't JLN just accept that sometimes it's ok to say the "other side" has a good point.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yeah, it was a stunt, but I think you're ignoring how well it plays across America. Look at the approval polls for the NFL before and after the kneeling began.

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Shows always get lesser ratings in later seasons.

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Add another to the list who won't admit the players have a point.

I think it is important to keep outlandish things like what Reid said in check, because letting people fly off at the handle and say whatever they want without a reality check (here it is lacking out of fear of being labeled an oppressor or worse, as IMU has shown time and again that leftists literally will call you a Nazi for not agreeing with them wholeheartedly) will result in the intended recipients of the message becoming disheartened and frustrated with All The Things That Are Wrong, and shut down instead of listening, or acting, or both.

The misconception is that people seem to think that overstating a problem will entice people to act in opposition to whatever the baseline, real, problem is. The justification is that "well, if people think the executive branch is actively oppressing Eric Reid's message, then more people will act", just like the justification for still using the 1 in 5 statistic is "well, if people think that rape is so widespread on college campuses, they will be more likely to act", the final caveat for both being "so who cares if what is said by [Reid or faulty statistics] is actually accurate".

I don't think that's necessarily true, because at some point, people will either think, because of overstatement and overreaction like Reid's, that the problem (whatever it is) is so widespread there's no chance or point in trying to fight it, or the overreactions will become so galling that even Most People will be able to see them as bullshit, and react negatively to such a brazen attempt to bullshit and control them by someone outside of their ideological comfort zone.

I just don't think it is helpful, in any respect, to be so hyperbolic about these things, and I think such hyperbole is actually detrimental to practical efforts to exact substantive change.

Except I don't see the players kneeling as disrespectful. I mean, insofar as a protest by its very nature is, I don't know, a type of disrespect, I guess? But no, they owe no respect to the flag, the troops, or the song.

A lot of stupid things will play with stupid people.

Why does that matter? I mean, did Rick say something about it not playing to the base?

hyperbole is the only way people seem to like to speak these days.

I don't believe for one second that you don't find it disrespectful, and for you to somehow thing things wasn't just another round of triggering the "Murcia!" crowd is just plain ignorant.

Reid is being hyperbolic, but the alt right yahoos are just saying what they mean and not being PC.
As you've made it clear you have already reproduced, please don't raise them to be like you.

How would anyone know how satisfying it is until it happens?

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He wouldn't personally care if they shit on the flag and slung it into the stands. The thought of arguing about it on the internet with some liberal dopes would get him fired up though.

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It's a TOP THAT kind of society we live in

You would be wrong, then. Again, there's a touch of, for lack of a better term, "disrespect" to any protest like that, and that's the point, otherwise nobody would know that you are protesting—and I do get annoyed when the players or other protesters pretend that such an element doesn't exist. But aside from that, no I do not at all find their protest disrespectful or ungracious or anything like that.

I'm starting to sincerely believe you don't know how to read.

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Can Seacrest chime in to point out how this shouldn't be viewed as a personal insult?

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I already sincerely believe that you're just an asshole.

Opinions vary.

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I honestly don't mean it as an insult. I simply can't see how anyone with the slightest bit of reading comprehension could infer what he did based on anything I posted. And so it's either that he cannot read or he is waging a campaign- similar to the one waged by Danny B- to mischaracterize what I have actually said.

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Every statement you make when you get called on it you say someone is mischaracterizing what you said. You had out more victim cards than Jesse.

I thought you'd be bigger.

Because you obviously can't read.

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Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space.

READ JUST FINE

I'll give it up for that one.

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And before anyone swoops in to remind everyone that NFL players are not the equivalent of civil rights protesters (plus they're paid millions!), the point is that the people who most often insist that this just isn't the right time or place for any kind of demonstration often believe there's never a right time or place for them.

Nail on the head.

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