Long story short, the NFL really screwed up by allowing their players to ‘protest’ during working hours aka games, and their numbers have suffered for it. Now they’ve gone the opposite direction and are insisting players stand during the National Anthem.
As a private organization, this editor believes the NFL absolutely has the right to decide such things HOWEVER it will likely backfire and not have the results they were hoping for.
Ben Shapiro explained it very simply in this tweet-storm:
1. I disagree that it is “winning” to force Americans to stand for the national anthem, even though I think it is utterly wrong to kneel for the national anthem.
2. Those who knelt politicized the NFL long before those who responded to the kneeling.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2018
Yes.
3. NFL games are private institutions. NFL owners can set rules, just as DePaul had a right to bar me from campus.
4. NFL games are not like college speaking engagements. College speaking engagements are about hearing political points of view. NFL games are about football.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2018
And Ben knows a LOT about college campuses banning people from speaking they disagree with.
5. NFL players are not invited by NFL audiences to make political statements. If we’re going to do this analogy, they’re like college staff hired for a purpose. A college would have the right to fire a professor who was losing students every year.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2018
Yes again.
6. The NFL has handled this in the stupidest possible way. They promoted player politics for years before reversing themselves. The NBA handled the same issue correctly.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2018
The NFL is scrambling because their ratings were in the toilet last year.
We’re not entirely sure this is the best fix though.
7. Players picked the means of their protest. The public responded accordingly. Now so are the owners. The same people deeply upset about NFL action in response to an unofficial boycott by fans celebrated an open boycott of NCAA teams over NC bathroom policy.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 24, 2018
Oops.
I think it is "Winning" to simply make it clear that when on company time, you live by company rules. protest on your own time.
— Rani ~ Garden Elf (@MilitaryRosary) May 24, 2018
Fair.
Keep politics out of sports
— Absolute SportsNet (@absolutesn) May 24, 2018
That’s all they had to do.
Oh, and as usual, Ben tweeting about most anything brought out a good deal of DERP:
Actually, yes they are being “forced” to stand. There is no disrespect in bending the knee for the National Anthem. My Grandfather, a Vet would often #TakeAKnee with hand over ❤️ & head bowed during National Anthem. This policy violates their right for peaceful protest.
— Tanglewood_Ranch? (@StacAmberly) May 24, 2018
Ok.
Eh.
https://twitter.com/saintman4life3/status/999648337644179458
Huh?
https://twitter.com/steak_ham/status/999655341683105793
Double huh?
https://twitter.com/mdow2022/status/999646641350172673
There is no pleasing a social justice warrior, and by the time a corporation figures out they screwed up with their sane customers it’s too late.
Like what’s happening with the NFL.
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