jparks29
JParks
jparks29

I appreciate your take, JParks. And thanks for keeping it civil. You’re right that patriotism or perhaps more correctly, nationalism is a big part of this. And I suppose what goes with that is intolerance of protesters or criticism. It can be difficult to unravel, but it seems more extreme when dissent comes from a

No NFL team is obligated to sign him. He has a right to protest. Teams have a right to pass on employing him because of it.

Dear Racists trying to comment onhere,

...the fuck would someone make that shit up?

Overreact much? I didn’t justify anything, the law did. You can pretend it isn’t there, but that doesnt change the fact that it IS there.

Anyway, Sports fans do get rowdy, but the police DO wear body cams and have been known to carry cameras into events like the superbowl. It just isn’t reported as big news because

Let’s be perfectly honest here. Plenty of BLM protests turned violent in the past, with rioting, looting, physical violence, and in some cases the burning of businesses. Whether that was actual BLM members or nebulous “outsiders” is irrelevant, as these things DO happen regardless of the groups stated intent. As such,

GWU is the wrong sort of university to target. I suppose there could be a few closet alt-right shitheads in it for the networking, but that’s not really the reputation. It’s very much an internationalist/pluralist school. You’re more likely to find a white guy speaking Arabic than a white guy tossing out alt-right

Hey CPD Twitter account, I see you guys already convicted her without a trial. Way to influence the jury pool.

To all the damn-the-torpedoes revolutionaries out there suggesting, without actually saying so, that violence is the best means of resistance, consider why you’re so reluctant to come out and say it. Perhaps because saying it loud and clear would expose its inanity?

Posting things like this without substantial evidence is what gives the term “fake news” its strength.

“Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”

I am no Trump supporter, but an extraordinary claim like this requires extraordinary evidence...but it’s Trump...Okay, at least some evidence.