Cripes Vox is lazy. This is a poor redux of the 99% Invisible Podcast about this topic.

What? Legally, employers can control a lot of the stuff you do at work. Most legal protections are for things done outside of work. Also, explaining reality isn’t an endorsement for reality.

No. I don’t oppose their right to protest. I’m stating legally that private employers are allowed to fire you for protesting at work (assuming there aren’t any CBA requirements stating you can). I don’t give a shit what they do or don’t do.

This is pretty transphobic. Chicks can have penises too.

It doesn’t, but that’s literally the only possible result of the meeting. It’s “Can we donate enough to the charities of your liking to get you to stop?” That’s the entire point of the meeting. If there isn’t a number, then there isn’t a point to the meeting. Assumptively, there is a number for a lot of the players…

I’m getting it just fine. They met with the knowledge the NFL wants them to stop protesting on the field. They want support for their cause. The NFL has no other way to help beyond donating money since their goal is to stop the protests. The exercise is pointless if they don’t want money.

Okay, so it is pointless.

Then what is the point of meeting? If the NFL can’t do anything to ameliorate the issue, why meet?

Uh, the law is pretty clear on this for non-public companies. All the examples you provide are things that a work might allow, but not necessarily something work has to allow. Private organizations are allowed to discriminate against speech they don’t like.

Because funding actual services to support their goals is more effective than protesting at creating the change they want and they could still protest elsewhere. If funding for things wasn’t their goal, why even meet?

Every single one? Would teams be obliged to spend 1 million dollars on the police shooter that was eventually blown up with a robot? Or just ones where it was an abuse of force? The first number would be around $250 - 300 mil per team. The latter number would be sometime like $10-30 mil per team?

Yes (if you want to stay employee) and no. Their job doesn’t start when the game begins. It’s not like players can just not go to practice or film sessions (unless they’ve negotiated it in their contracts).

Are you sure that applies to private entities? Because obviously the government (school board) can’t force people to do something, but jobs can force you to do all sorts of things because you have the option to not them via quitting.

That’s why I mentioned my problem with the level of control. I was hoping you’d specify the not paltry number you would have accepted as a reasonable offer.

$1.75 mil over seven years doesn’t seem particularly paltry to me.

Nobody has a right to protest at work and stay employed. The NFL is bribing people to do something they could be forced to do unless they actually want to waste a ton of negotiating capital for their next CBA on kneeling.

So I agree the issue of control as to how the money is spent is a problem, but how is the money a paltry figure? What amount of money is the right amount of money for something the NFL has zero obligation to pay?

Google the amount of .gov and .mil emails that are registered as account log ins for porn sites. This isn’t a uniquely hoops player issue.

“impressionable”

Globally? Lol.