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Okay. That was probably poor wording. I was hung up on the civil disobedience analogy I constructed. There's where legal lines must be drawn at some point, in terms of allowance, enforcement, and punishment.
I believe that “worthy protest cause”, like “art”, is rather difficult to decide for others.
Lol what a joke. He placed 3rd in foil! No one even knows your stupid sport exists. As if anyone gives a @@@@ what he thinks.
Bronze in the 2016 Olympics
That’s quite a list.
Poopovich is a sanctimonious piece of crap. He think is he's better than everyone & talks down to people. Yeah, as if anyone cares what an nba coach thinks about the world.
I honestly can't understand how a team puts garbage like reid on their team. He can call someone an uncle tom, but you dont hear a peep from any of the race baiters. Typical hypocrites that use race when it suits their needs.DJackson10 said:
I know Pop soapboxes a bit. I just figured squis would have put it there and wanted to do him a solid.
I agree with you here. I know one of the DB coaches personally of the Eagles and how Colin and Reid tried to make Malcom Jenkins look like a bad guy Jenkins could've countered sued for libel and other things if Colin tried to name him in the NFL lawsuit. Based on some people I know the Lawsuit settlement was nothing more then both parties agreeing to no longer attack each other publicly and Colin could profit like making a movie or book off of it. Take it with a grain of salt because I don't know how true it is but it sounds more like Colin's lawyers wised up and knew they had a losing case without Specific DETAILED evidence showing conclusion. Jenkins also saved Phone calls, texts and emails sent to Kap/Reid/Their agents and lawyers to show he tried to involve them. Basically when the spotlight fell off of them they took their balls and went home
Well it was either sign Reid or sign me to play safety.
https://theundefeated.com/features/san-antonio-spurs-gregg-popovich-is-the-nbas-most-woke-coach/
It seems as you and Popovich hang out alot, could you ask him if he regrets the Kawhi thing?
And yet, here you are doing the same thing. You dont know what I've done or where I've been. I didnt realize that only "so called" famous people can have opinions about others. The fact that you apparently are a Kaepernick supporter tells me all I need to know about you. I dont know how I'm going to get through my day after reading your opinion, I'm so distraught LOL. Thanks for your useless diatribe.
Pops who is 70 served in the Air Force in his early 20s. Like many in the Armed Services they do travel. Pops has never had a real job other than being a basketball coach. Also Pops has only coached in the NBA bubble over the last 3 decades. NBA coaches travel around the country flying first class or private planes, and staying at the Four Seasons or Ritz and eating the finest food and wine basically living a very pampered lifestyle and he lives in a gated community.
It reminds of Friedrich Hayek and his rebuke of the intellectuals. Often, he said, they feel that since they have achieved expertise in one field that qualifies them to speak out as an expert on other issues. Often, he said they're wrong. They're not experts in that field. Reminds me of Chomsky, a linguistic genius, getting political in the sixties and seventies.
I don't want to speak for another poster ... but what I got out of rockaction's Sunday morning posts was that the fencer's demonstration itself was trite and thus necessarily lacking impact. Not that the broader issues he was protesting were unimportant, nor that his actions were wrong in any manner.
Pops is a well spoken and thoughtful guy. I generally like the ideas he presents and the thought behind them. Much like Kerr. I think Pops and Kerr have a good deal of insight about race issues, because there are few places in the world as integrated as a basketball court. That doesn't make them right on everything automatically, just a starting point for insight.
That's cool that you did that. That's active reading and listening, a great trait to have. You're partially right and maybe I wasn't clear enough on my other points. My first point, what I was really getting at, was that the things they were protesting in '68 were much, much more significant in scope and intensity than what Race is protesting. What Race is protesting is important, but it's not appropriate to scale, if you know what I mean.
I'd agree with this. But I think I might have incorrectly communicated or flat misstated his grievance about intellectuals. He was amazed at how wrong they often were and how sloppy their methods and logic were, but yet they kept at it (and more importantly, the press lapped it up) without expert qualification.
I think way too much opinion is formed based on how pop handles sideline interviews in game that are a silly requirement. He comes of as a jerk to people that dont understand how dumb of a concept it is.
That's interesting. I don't disagree. I think I read somewhere that the IQ distribution about Ph.Ds in the US was in alignment with that of the general population. I'll see if I can find that stat somewhere.
I get you here. I think we can agree that the audience to whom he was protesting thinks little of that sort of promise. And invoking Trump's broken promises is an easy "what about?" counter.
I found this: Smarty Pants Article That I Probably Won't Read But It's Got and Interesting Abstract
That is cracking me up. My sister has a phd. She is very religious. She is politically pretty active.
I prefer this form of political protest (even if it is kind of a mess philosophically) over the political violence we see from time to time with mass shooters, bombers, etc. I am never going to be bothered by peaceful protest, even if it's misguided or philosophically sloppy.
Oh Dear, I think that goes without saying. I almost infinitely prefer exactly what you're less or not bothered by. That's pretty much nothing to get that worked up over. The shootings or violence are worse by far.
Surely, I just meant it's good to keep perspective on things. Not you- but I know people who get really worked up over things like a person kneeling at the Pan Am games or whatever. I think that's really overreacting to something pretty harmless.
Seriously and then the anti-kneelers get to write their editorials, fire off their tweets and then those defending the kneeling can do the same. So many clicks and likes and whatnot. It's such a lame routine at this point. And of course lost in it all is any of the real meaning or significance of any of it good or bad. I guess that is the downside of commercialism.
Dont forget more kneeling to counter the anti kneeling. And of course the well i dont really want to kneel, but i dont want to do nothing so lets lock arms crowd( this is the equivalent of the bullpen guys strolling out during a bench clearing "brawl" )
