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FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME NFL PLAYERS ARE PROTESTING SOCIAL INJUSTICE NOT THE ANTHEM ITSELF.
So when we liberals scoff at the term “liberal media,” stuff like this tweet by CBS News is why. The mainstream media often adopts the framing used by Republicans and right-wing media instead of phrasing things in a more factual, objective way.
CBS finally got it right. Thank you. See, it’s not that hard to be fair and refrain from piggybacking on twisted right-wing narratives.
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Barack Obama supporters picked him because he wanted to help people regardless of who they were.

Donald Trump supporters picked him because he wanted to hurt people who weren’t like them.

Why we pick our leaders says a lot about our ideology.
Obama: People with pre-existing conditions got health care. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Gay marriage became legal. Affirmative action school policies.

Trump: Muslim ban. Family separation policy. LGBT discrimination. Sabotaging health care of poor/sick. Uptick in hate crimes.
The inclusive aim of Barack Obama and the discriminatory intent of Donald Trump became more than just campaign rhetoric. Have heard many conservatives say that Obama made race relations worse while claiming that Trump isn’t a bigot, but the facts say otherwise.
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If Donald Trump tweeted that he runs a four-minute mile, Sarah Sanders would be like:

“The President happens to be one of the world’s elite distance runners. Unlike his predecessor, he doesn’t use his athleticism to showboat, which is why you never see him run.”
If Donald Trump tweeted that he painted the Sistine Chapel, Sarah Sanders would be like:

“The President invented time travel, went back to 1508, made his masterpiece, returned to the present, then destroyed the time machine after deciding it was a threat to the American people.”
If Donald Trump tweeted that he had the superpower to fly, Sarah Sanders would be like:

“The President can flap his arms at such a rate that it allows him to achieve lift off and soar through the sky. He only uses Air Force One due to safety precautions.”
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Marco Rubio spent yesterday defending Trump, who calls the free press “the enemy of the people,” against the media. Today, Rubio is more concerned with a journalist saying fuck than journalists dying.
Marco Rubio felt it was more important to use this tragedy to pander to the evangelical base than to tweet support for the victims of a newspaper mass shooting. Can’t he drop the family values act long enough to show some humanity, especially after Parkland happened in his state?
This is also a good time to point out that Marco Rubio has received millions from the NRA during his career.
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that major outlets, after all this time, are still writing that NFL players are protesting "the national anthem" is is not just a bad look, but a journalistic embarrassment.
Players have been so clear abt what they are protesting and why for so long, that it keeps getting ignored speaks to our profession's tendency to ignore historically marginalized persons in favor of parroting the language of the privileged
Or, in industry talk, you're getting spun
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20+ year businessman here: The NFL's actions over the past 2+ years has been astonishing, and this move will make it worse. This is mass career suicide & the league will cease to exist if someone with a spine does not take charge soon. thenationalsentinel.com/2018/07/20/cow…
Every business has 'Standards and Practices' guidance for employee behavior. NFL made this bed by allowing 1 person to bring a political statement onto the field and not stopping it immediately. At this point, no matter what they do- it will be wrong. Players vs. Fans= Bankrupt
NFL players, executives and owners HAVE to realize that they are engaged in a battle that they CANNOT win. A VERY large portion of their audience is being isolated by the protests & less fans means less $$$. #NFL
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@AZCardinals A professional sports team is backing a political appointment but votes to deny players the right to exercise their social and political voices. Gross.
@AZCardinals “Stick to sports” is a lie to silence dissent to the rolling back of rights of marginalized groups of people in America.
@AZCardinals National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Boswell literally used the team’s website and social media to endorse Brett Kavanaugh as the next United States Supreme Court Justice.
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For the millionth time, NFL players are kneeling to protest the disproportionate use of police violence against Black Americans.

They are not protesting against the flag, the anthem or the troops.

And just because a race-baiting president says it, that doesn't make it so.
In fact, I will continue to argue that exercising your non-violent right of free speech isn't un-American. It is the very essence of what it means to be an American.
Trump says there are good fine people on both side of a white nationalist rally in which a protester was mowed down

But predominantly Black players who nonviolently protest violence are sons of bitches?

Anyone who doesn't see the transparent race-baiting isn't paying attention
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#TakeAKnee is
Against brutality directed toward minorities
Against divisiveness (for a show of unity)
Supports Amendment 1 of U.S. Constitution
Supports solidarity (power/credibility to make changes)
It's not done against flag or anthem
It's not done against our military/veterans
#TakeAKnee is
For liberty & justice for all
For basic human rights
For civility & civil rights
Against "ugliness" that exists in our society

Whoever doesn't understand this, just doesn't want to.

#IStandWithKaepernick
#IStandWithEugeneGu
#TakeAKnee

And, I wonder…

How many people partake in the flag/anthem ritual while watching at home/bar?
How many people partake in it while grabbing food and/or drinks at the stadiums?
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Two days later, everyone is sick of the @michelleisawolf #WHCD takes. So I thought I'd drive right into the abyss, go long, and look at how the routine is structured. I've been a fan for a long time; that will be obvious. This will take 3 days.
I want to highlight 3 things: voice, pacing, contempt. Even this insanely long thread doesn't get at everything going on in the routine—the eye work is great—but if this was the last #WHCD, the even deserves an epic sendoff, S/Z style.
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