I'm finally cutting out the Nike logos out of my Nike pillow case (satire)!

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Yep, that pretty much sums it up!

[Trust Buster]

1. People have the right to boycott Nike if they wish. People have the right to boycott the NFL if they

Wish. It is just two sides of the same coin.

[hueymahl]

4. Not really

Yes, it is in both cases a freedom of speech issue. But one is backed by racist intent (or at best, indifference to historical and current institutional and governmental racism). The other is a positive (if incendiary) political statement. You are making a false equivalence argument with that statement.

Put another way, I will defend those idiots rights to make idiotic statements. In the same breath, I will call them the racist assholes they are.

[Trust Buster]

5. I disagree. NIKE operates sweat shops to manufacturer their products. Human rights has never

Been a big concern to NIKE. The almighty dollar is all that NIKE cares about. And, there are many who oppose player protests at games for reasons that have nothing to do with race.

[hueymahl]

6. You do realize that the nike protests

have ZERO to do with concern about sweatshops? Why would you even bring that red herring up?

And I disagree with you that people oppose the protest for something other than race. They may want to believe and assert they are doing something like "protecting the flag, standing up for 'merika", but the real, deep down reason, for ALL of them, is they just don't like to look at black people being uppity. Whether that is on the football field or out in real life.

[Trust Buster]

7. I did not say that the NIKE protestors are protesting sweatshops. You came up with that.

I said that NIKE is leveraging this situation in pursuit of the almighty dollar. If NIKE cared about basic human rights, they would not operate sweatshops.

I do not support the kneeling and my opposition has nothing to do with race. I do not like politics being injected into sports. Sports represents an escape from life’s problems in my mind. I also think it is unfair for players to sign multi million dollar contracts just to turn around and willfully damage the revenue stream that is necessary for the owners to honor those multi million dollar contractual obligations. Millions of people feel as I do. It is unfair to claim that the opposition is solely about race.

[hueymahl]

8. You brought up sweatshops

I can only guess as a way to divert the story or give an excuse to the Nike protestors.

If you don't support the kneeling, then you don't really support the cause behind it. The fact that it bothers you should cause you to do some introspection.

I fully support it, and i wish more would take part. I does NOTHING to detract from the actual game (other than remove from the game Kapernick, a really good QB, who has been blackballed because of it).

[Trust Buster]

9. I brought up sweatshops to point out NIKE's history of putting profits before people. HYPOCRISY !!

[hueymahl]

10. The assholes protesting Nike don't give two shits about sweatshops

It is 100% about protesting Kapernick and his political statements about unjust racist actions by police and others in authority. Don't know why you want to keep bringing sweatshops into it.

Nike is far from perfect, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what is going on currently.

[Trust Buster]

11. I wasn't even discussing the protestors of NIKE. You keep doing that.

I was discussing NIKE’s apparent hypocrisy.

[hueymahl]

12. Again, you brought up Nike's business practices

when they have nothing to do with the protests. Why do you keep doing that?

[Trust Buster]

13. This thread is about NIKE. What was I thinking ?......LOL

[hueymahl]

14. No, this thread is about protest against Nike because they chose Kapernick as a spokesman

Hope you have a great day!

[Initech]

15. Well the difference is when they start destroying their property..

They look like complete idiots when doing so. The thing is whatever they're protesting by destroying their merchandise, said merchandiser already has their money, they couldn't care less what you do with it. You want to be a dumbass and destroy a $300 coffee maker? Keurig doesn't give a shit. They already have your money.

[Solomon]

2. Brilliant!

I love it.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Oh, SNAP!!!!!!!

Didn't see THAT one coming - brilliant!!!!

[LakeSuperiorView]

16. If they really wanted to make the headlines, they should make corduroy pillowcases....

[jmowreader]

17. Since no one actually watched the link...

Nike doesn’t make pillowcases. The guy had drawn two Nike logos on a pillowcase he was turning into a Klan hood.

[Solomon]

18. We know that silly.

Sheesh. (Rolls eyes) SMH