If they're getting pressure from both ends, we can extract meaningful concessions in order to end the protest. I prefer leverage to love.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @sammysitstill
Idk what the concessions look like bc we're not protesting the NFL directly? But it's asymmetric in our favor, because the protest...
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Replying to @csilverandgold @sammysitstill
Is highly visible, whereas the concessions we'd extract, even if it were, say, cancelling security contracts with racist PDs...
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Replying to @csilverandgold
we can't extract concessions if the protest has been derailed from Police Brutality --> Anthem, Flag, Donald Trump
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Replying to @sammysitstill
Yes we absolutely can. As long as it's police brutality in the minds of the kneeling players, doesn't matter what media narrative is.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
most of the kneeling players are kneeling to protest Trump. which is (surprisingly and kind of nonsensically?) easier than kneeling to 1)
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Replying to @sammysitstill @csilverandgold
protest police brutality. we don't have an adequate grip on what's in the minds of these players yet 2)
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Replying to @sammysitstill @csilverandgold
NBA players have been protesting police brutality much more visibly than NFL players but we shall see who takes up the baton from Kaep 3)
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Replying to @sammysitstill
I hear you. That's a good point. And if ENOUGH players stop kneeling maybe the racists will stop boycotting.
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Which could happen without meaningful concessions. Still, the racists boycotting does nothing to hurt us.
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