Why does Trump get so exercised over black athletes peacefully protesting vs white nationalists?

[MomentsofSanity]

As a boy born and raised in southern Ontario I will not disagree.

As a Habs fan, also from southern Ontario, I'd also agree. Even though he was a *shudder* TML.

 

[UNCjigga]

No matter where you are from, those kinds of players are players you have to admire if you love the game.

I'm just saying Sundin is a lot easier to admire when you're a Leafs fan!

Glad we derailed this to a hockey thread!

 

[brycejones]

I'm just saying Sundin is a lot easier to admire when you're a Leafs fan!

Glad we derailed this to a hockey thread!

You have to come up with something because Canadian Football is just garbage.

 

[J.Wilkins]

I'm just saying Sundin is a lot easier to admire when you're a Leafs fan!

Glad we derailed this to a hockey thread!

He's easy to admire even if you've played against him and are from London with a Vancouver wife and consider the Canucks your team.

I consider him one of the all time greats, way up there.

I mean, he did carry the Leafs during a time of many very ... very bad choices.

 

[J.Wilkins]

You have to come up with something because Canadian Football is just garbage.

Kevlar rugby is about as interesting as watching kindergarten rugby where they wear rubber suits so no one can get hurt...

The only fun part about rugby is that it's physically violent, the game itself sucks... You took away the violence with immense wads of protection and helmets...

Now it's kindergarten rugby with grown ups and in a full hour game you get four minutes of pure nothingness.

 

[sandorski]

Cause it's Football, there is violence on both sides.

 

[UNCjigga]

I mean, he did carry the Leafs during a time of many very ... very bad choices.

What are you talking aboot? We've had the best GMs and the best front office of any team in history!

#50yearsandcounting ...

 

[mindless1]

Personally, I don't agree with much of what Trump does, but felt that 0bama should have said something back when this started, but was too spineless and PC to do so. This kind of crap needs nipped in the bud, not coddled. People need to wake up to the fact that we need unity to solve problems, not lame token gestures of defiance.

 

[brycejones]

Personally, I don't agree with much of what Trump does, but felt that 0bama should have said something back when this started, but was too spineless and PC to do so. This kind of crap needs nipped in the bud, not coddled. People need to wake up to the fact that we need unity to solve problems, not lame token gestures of defiance.

Germany under Hitler and the Soviet Union under Stalin had tons of "unity to solve problems".........

 

[mindless1]

Germany under Hitler and the Soviet Union under Stalin had tons of "unity to solve problems".........

BS, unity through killing everyone else is obviously not the same thing, or were you suggesting that the problem has gotten better instead of worse? Never mind, I've been reminded what a waste of time this forum is. Bye bye.

 

[brycejones]

BS, unity through killing everyone else is obviously not the same thing, or were you suggesting that the problem has gotten better instead of worse? Never mind, I've been reminded what a waste of time this forum is. Bye bye.

LOL, you poor triggered baby

 

[jmagg]

best satire on the net

 

[UNCjigga]

Sigh, too many blacks in the NBA...Too many illegals who can't speak English in MLB, too many socialist Europeans in soccer and now a racial equality controversy in the NFL???

Don't worry deplorables, you still have hockey, wrestling, UFC and NASCAR!

Welp, I was wrong about NASCAR! Ahhahahaaa...Look what Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted and look at what a fan wrote in response!

 

[Ns1]

So how about them cowboys eh

 

[K1052]

This kind of crap needs nipped in the bud, not coddled. People need to wake up to the fact that we need unity to solve problems, not lame token gestures of defiance.

What major social issue in the US was resolved by "unity"? None that I can think of. Slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, labor rights, and on. Without protest the status quo would always prevail.

 

[fskimospy]

What major social issue in the US was resolved by "unity"? None that I can think of. Slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, labor rights, and on. Without protest the status quo would always prevail.

People generally think of unity as being unity in favor of however they feel.

 

[HomerJS]

So far in dealing with the original question the only answer so far is Trump is a racist of which I agree. I've refused to go there up until this point.

Still waiting for a possible alternative answer.

 

[KMFJD]

Ignoramus... Forsberg has nothing on the greatest Swedish player of all times, Mats "Sudden" Sundin.

That man wasn't just an artist, he made everyone he played with all star players.

You seem to have misspelled Nicklas Lidström's name up there....

 

[brycejones]

What major social issue in the US was resolved by "unity"? None that I can think of. Slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, labor rights, and on. Without protest the status quo would always prevail.

Yeah but did those protests make anything better? I'm guessing for mindless1 the answer is no.....

 

[zinfamous]

He's not one of the best QBs in the league but he's above average. He's certainly better than more than one starting QB and most backups. It's basically unprecedented for someone as good as him to not have been signed by a team.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/colin-kaepernick-is-not-supposed-to-be-unemployed/

He should definitely be on a team, somewhere. He's certainly good enough to be a backup in the NFL, on pretty much any team. I don't think he's a starter, though, even though there are plenty of middling starters in the league.


His very temporary success in the NFL was result of showing up late in the season on a phenomenal SF team that already gave teams trouble planning for, where on top of that, they now had absolutely no answer for this completely different type of QB, especially in the playoffs (I don't think any QB is or ever has been as fast as Kaepernick, for one)

But this is all besides the point.

 

[zinfamous]

Personally, I don't agree with much of what Trump does, but felt that 0bama should have said something back when this started, but was too spineless and PC to do so. This kind of crap needs nipped in the bud, not coddled. People need to wake up to the fact that we need unity to solve problems, not lame token gestures of defiance.

what problem regarding the jingoistic NFL and its snowflake fans needed to be solved that Obama was too spineless to deal with?

 

[brycejones]

what problem regarding the jingoistic NFL and its snowflake fans needed to be solved that Obama was too spineless to deal with?

Mindless1 couldn't take it and bravely ran away....

 

[dainthomas]

Welp, I was wrong about NASCAR! Ahhahahaaa...Look what Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted and look at what a fan wrote in response!

Very considerate of the deplorables to openly admit they're against the right to protest (for people they disagree with).

 

[JimKiler]

Welp, I was wrong about NASCAR! Ahhahahaaa...Look what Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted and look at what a fan wrote in response!

Is there significance is who replied or just that someone is scared that Dale Jr stood up for what he believes in? I don't understand why you showed this tweet reply.

 

[UNCjigga]

Is there significance is who replied or just that someone is scared that Dale Jr stood up for what he believes in? I don't understand why you showed this tweet reply.

NASCAR fans tend to be overwhelmingly white, southern, conservative, Christian...basically a good portion of those intersecting Venn sets if you will.

Unfortunately, that fan base union includes a few deplorables as well. So when one of NASCAR's royal heirs and most famous drivers tweets in support of those protesting in the NFL, you can imagine how uneasy some fans would feel.