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The Center for American Progress reports
Last month, the NFL announced a new policy for its players during the national anthem: Players are permitted to stay in the locker room during the anthem, but if they go out onto the field during it, they must stand. If any of the players takes a knee, the team will be fined.
Soon afterwards, a Wall Street Journal report confirmed what most have long suspected: That President Donald Trump's public outrage about NFL players protesting police brutality and systemic racism during the national anthem at football games heavily influenced NFL owners to change the rule, and discouraged them from signing players who would protest.
It's all terrible news for those in favor of free speech and peaceful protest, and for those against white nationalism and police brutality.
However, Mark Geragos, the lawyer representing Kaepernick in his collusion lawsuit against the NFL, [...] believes [...] that Trump's direct influence over NFL owners on this issue violates federal law. U.S. Code 227 [which] says that members of Congress or the executive branch cannot "wrongfully influence a private entity's employment decision ... solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation".
A few revelations from the last couple of weeks strongly support Geragos' case here, and it's important to remember that Geragos knows much more about the case than we do--he has taken the depositions of more than a dozen NFL owners, while the public only knows about the depositions that have leaked.
[...] Of course, influencing the private hiring decisions of a company isn't the only part of U.S. Code [227] that needs to be proved; it would also have to be shown that Trump did it for partisan political purposes.
That sounds trickier to prove, but in this case, that's not necessarily true. First of all, Trump's comments were made at a political rally supporting an Alabama Republican candidate for US Senate--an expressly partisan environment. And according to the WSJ, Trump told Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in private conversations that the issue was a "winning" one for him.
Previous: NFL: New National Anthem Rule; NY Jets CEO: Break the Rule and I'll Pay the Fine
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:14PM (10 children)
Crap like this story makes me glad I run adblocking software.
I would not want you people to make money publishing such "articles".
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I'm white and I was beat up by the police, and it didn't need to happen. No one protested for me, and life goes on. The police are a bunch of redneck idiots, and they always will be, because their job is a shit job and no one with better options would do it.
Life isn't fair, and it never will be fair. Fucking DEAL WITH IT, you pathetic bunch of pussies.
As for Kaepernick, he should stick to business when he is being very well paid to play a game, and protest on HIS time, not his employers' time.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:28PM (3 children)
> This is NOT news for nerds.
And this is not Slashdot. Our tagline is "SoylentNews is people". This is people. Checks out just fine.
> Crap like this story makes me glad I run adblocking software.
> I would not want you people to make money publishing such "articles".
Joke's on you. There are no ads here anyway!
> Life isn't fair, and it never will be fair. Fucking DEAL WITH IT, you pathetic bunch of pussies.
Hmm, let's do a historical reenactment.
Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
AC: "Life isn't fair, and it never will be fair. Fucking DEAL WITH IT, you pathetic bunch of pussies."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:33PM (1 child)
" Our tagline is "SoylentNews is people"."
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The tagline should be : "Lame crap articles and when we can't come up with those, we just copy Slashdot".
Soylent News is CRAP.
Bye now, chumps.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:59PM
Ugh! Glad he's gone.
Where were we? Ah, bashing each other ad-free, that's what we the people do. Righto...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 04 2018, @06:42AM
You think you don't see ads. But many people say that the stories are ads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:49PM (2 children)
Sweet! Identity politics is the gift that keeps on giving! Black Lives Matter is succeeding bigly at convincing the majority of voters, whites, that police brutality is something that doesn't affect them!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @05:23AM (1 child)
White lives only don't matter because of the poor choices white trash make, like starting the Traditionalist Incestuous Worker Party of White Nationalists and MIL fuckers like Matt Heimbork, or Heimbach, or Heimlich, a la manuevor. This is why we cannot have white supremacy, white folk be too fucking stupid, and over-sexed, and not in a good way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:56PM
All opposition to identity politics is white supremacy. White supremacy is something that only those who were assigned the male gender at birth would ever aspire to. There are no womyn-born-womyn and certainly no feminist white supremacists. No siree! And it just so happens that white supremacists, now that we've ejected all womyn-born-womyn from the movement, happen to all fall into various categories of failed men. Just because we love sucking the gender dichotomy's cock and gargling the balls of heteronormativity. Additionally, using insults developed by the patriarchy to induct young men into systems of power known for repressing human rights when women want to have them could not possibly backfire.
tl;dr you're not going to win hearts and minds by offering a slightly different brand of reactionary, right-wing nonsense.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:59PM
No, you are not; yes, you were, and No, it really really needed to happen, 'cause you were acting all privileged, thinking you were white.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday June 04 2018, @05:55PM
Nope life isn't fair. And a good thing too. As JMS [wikipedia.org] pointed out:
This is an excellent example of promoting the idea of changing your perspective once in a while (something I recommend highly), as well as making the point that when bad shit happens to folks (like mass incarceration, unequal application of the death penalty, routine brutalization of those with darker skin, etc., etc., etc. -- you know, the stuff that Kapernick was protesting by "taking a knee"), it often isn't their fault.
If you disagree with that, consider the case of Ruthie Ann Blumenstein [abc7ny.com], her four year-old daughter and the one year-old son of her friend. If life were fair, that would mean that Ms. Blumenstein *and* those children were obviously evil pieces of shit that deserved to be injured/killed.
In the same vein, the brutal and discriminatory treatment of those with "excess" melanin, as well as those with a dearth of cash, isn't because they deserve such treatment. It's because those who *do* deserve to be beaten, killed, discriminated against and disenfranchised are the ones who perpetrate such treatment.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:09PM
that's not a troll you goddamn idiot. that's "disagree" or "flamebait" at worst. i'm not the op either.