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lol eric reid has been blackballed


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2 hours ago, King_Returns said:

lol you literally couldn't do it

you literally couldn't go off script

my fuging sides

 

2 hours ago, King_Returns said:

you literally can't do it

you literally can't go off script

 

2 hours ago, King_Returns said:

you literally can't do it

you literally can't go off script

LOL

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I read an op ed today that was written by Pat Tillman's widow.  Here are some highlights.  Every one of you on both sides of this should read it and think about it.

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Since last year I’ve watched from the background as professional athletes have taken a knee to draw attention to injustice and racial inequality in the United States. Pat was in the military, so many people want to attach a brand of blind allegiance to him and use him to argue that kneeling during the national anthem is unpatriotic. Pat was also against the Iraq War, so many others want to use him to argue against American involvement in overseas wars. His essence is bent to fit an agenda.

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Pat’s life has become symbolic, but he was a flesh-and-blood man, and there was nothing about him that fit into a neat category. He was an athlete who didn’t really pay much attention to sports. He was outspoken and opinionated, but a convincing argument could change his views. His nuanced thinking was what I loved most about Pat — that he could love his country so much that he would sacrifice his life to protect it, but also so much that he could challenge it.

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I’ve been asked to comment countless times on what Pat would have thought about the National Football League protests, but I’ve always declined. Over the years, I’ve become used to people wanting to know what he would have thought about something in the news, or assign a way of thinking to him based on what they know about who he was at 27. They want to freeze him in time. I find it ironic because Pat was always known as a free thinker who was constantly growing. He was very different when we got together at 16 from who he was at 27, and he would have been different, too, at 42. We should be able to respect his willingness to sacrifice for what he believed in without looking at it through the lens of today’s divisive political climate. So while I still refuse to speak for Pat, I will speak as a widow, a wife, a mother, an American, and, yes, a patriot.

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I think that patriotism is complex, like Pat himself. It is not blind or unquestioning. And it’s a fool’s errand to argue over who’s allowed to claim sacrifice. Many of the kneeling athletes say they are protesting as American patriots who want the nation to be better than it is. When I look around at the vitriol aimed at them for expressing their beliefs, and at the compulsion to simplify complicated issues in order to pit people on opposing sides, I want to kneel, too. Because I believe we are at our best as Americans when we engage in constructive dialogue around our differences with the goal of understanding one another.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-pat-tillmans-wife-but-i-cant-speak-for-him-neither-can-you/2018/11/08/18374652-d8a0-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.b441c779c9c5

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15 minutes ago, Billy_T said:

That's for sure...

Lots of laughably inept basement/Mom/safe space/other attempted jabs:                                                             

"Nawwwww is football your safe space?  Someone get this man a teddy bear."                                                                 "Donald Sterling is still in here littering his filth?"                                                                                                                          "I'm 99% sure this guy is a home schooler."                                                                                                                               "From his work desk in his family room."                                                                                                                                          "I can see him, sitting at his little work desk, legs dangling from his chair like a regular Ben Shapiro."                              "You should have your mom work with you on your reading comprehension."                                                                       "I'm just hoping you make it out of your parents' basement one day."                                                                                    "BILLY T is an idiot in a bleached bubble."                                                                                                                                  

(they're running roughshod all over Al Gore's internets with those zingers!)    

                                                                    

Multiple veiled accusations of being racist, like The King says, an automatic loser:                                                           "Why is that? Too uppity for you?                                                                                                                                              "trying to find any reason at all to not have to listen to uppity black people"                                                                        "Billy T, breaking out his best dog whistle."                                                                                                                                 "This is some truly ugly hateful stuff here."                                                                                                                              "...southern bigotry."                                                                                                                                                                       "Textbook white fragility."                                                                                                                                                               "Your takes all basically scream white fragility"                                                                                                                           

(all false)

 

Then there's nazi talk:                                                                                                                                                                     "just ban the frikkin nazis please"                                                                                                                                                 "which nazi are you.  you seem like the other brand new nazi that loved quoting people yesterday"                                      "Billy is clearly probably a college grad unlike some of the actual bitter Nazis on this board ...."                                        "His reading comprehension is pretty awful for a college grad."                                                                                                

(truly bizarre)

 

Then there's those who portend to "say" what I am "saying":                                                                                                   "Billy is basically saying racism isn't a problem anymore in his eyes so Reid is wrong about everything."                      "He's basically saying racism stopped after slavery ended..."   "                                                                                               He's saying racism is over, stop whining black folks"                                                                                                             "Black people get special privileges"                                                                                                                                      "educated black people other than Eric Reid who think racism is a problem don't know as much as me"                    "Racism is wrong but that screed is wronger" "                                                                                                                            "You care more about him talking out of turn than anything else, that's telling"                                                                   "Black people get special privileges"                                                                                                                                                

(they're mind readers I'm telling you!)

 

Multiple "I'm out" proclamations only to post for 8 more pages:                                                                                          "That's intellectual cowardice on your part, which doesn't merit my continued participation."                                            "That was my last post in this thread, btw Edit: i lied"                                                                                                                 

(no discipline)

 

Res ipsa loquitur....

 

EDIT:  Damn, I had that formatted so nicely!  Oh well, it's perfectly readable...

LOL! U Mad.

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