KGdaBom wrote:You made this point by point reply and were wrong about every one of them. Contractors are employed by somebody.
I was right about all of them. Contractors are NOT always employed. Many work for themselves, IE NFL players. Employee is not the same as contractor.
When I say the NFL of course it means the teams. The players are employed by the teams. Why are you acting like contractors makes it different somehow. That is ridiculous.
No it's not, they are different things. You can't keep calling somebody an employee when they are not employees.
You keep saying the players should be allowed to kneel for the national anthem and they are allowed to kneel for the national anthem. They just can't do it on the NFL broadcast.
Jesus Christ! What do you think I was talking about? Yeah, because kneeling for the anthem while back in the locker room totally makes a statement.
And what is your BS with this snowflake word. Just seems like you are being a jerk.
Sorry, it is what it is. People are only against the protests because they are offended by it. It's double standards considering the people who are offended are constantly attacking the other side as easily offended snowflakes. They coined that term and now it's funny that being offended justifies censoring somebody when they literally argue against that idea. Trump ran on that campaign.
Yes for every game they miss they lose a games pay, but if they miss practice they are fined for it. Practice is a condition of their employment and they are on the job when they practice.
Irrelevant.
They are in uniform for pregame activities. They are on the job any time they are in uniform even if it's for a PR function.
Irrelevant.
I get that you don't think our anthem deserves respect and want to support the players in disrespecting it and they have that right. They just don't have that right to do so during the NFL broadcasts.
Yes, they actually SHOULD have that right. Again, if it's not in their contract they don't have to respect any anthem and I already said that if the NFL makes a rule about it they do have to comply. They are trying to reach a large audience to spread awareness about the problems of racial inequality in this country.
I think you are lying to yourself in thinking the players have some special right to have the NFL provide them with a platform for political protest.
It is a fundamental right of every American to protest what they don't agree with. Why do you think unions organize strikes and protests ON COMPANY/AGENCY time and people don't get fired for it?
The NFL absolutely has zero obligation to provide this for them.
They have zero obligation to deny this for them.
As for the military what does that have to do with anything. This is not a military issue.
It's not, but conservatives have turned it into a military issue. But yeah the anthem is absolutely played to promote the military, no other reason. This is why people are butthurt about it, they claim these people hate America or hate the military. You even said yourself that it is disrespectful. Do you know what else was considered disrespectful? When African Americans organized non violent protests and sat in "White only" establishments on THEIR company time. Many people were offended, but that is irrelevant because our country is founded on the right to non violent protest.
It is an issue of the owners being able to determine what goes on in their broadcasts.
Once again, the owners do not determine that.