Time for the Bud Light Treatment: NFL Denounces Player for Advocating Traditional Values

PJ Media ^ | 17 May 2024 | Robert Spencer

[Rummyfan]

Harrison Butker, a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, is in a heap of trouble these days. The NFL has issued a statement distancing itself from him, there is a petition at Change.org calling for him to be released, and outraged commentators across our fair land have lined up to condemn him and declare him unworthy to be in the company of decent people. What Butker did to get all this abuse is a sad indication of what life is like in this Age of Absurdity.

If this were a sane society, you might get the impression that Butker did something like take a knee for the National Anthem in protest against an imaginary “systemic racism.” Or you might think that he mortally offended his employers by likening the NFL draft to a slave auction, saying: “What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic. Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respect. No dignity left intact.”

Yet Harrison Butker did not do those things; Colin Kaepernick did. Butker’s outrageous crime was that he gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College, and took aim at some of the most cherished idols of our age. He encouraged the graduates to take pride in themselves and their accomplishments: “Not the deadly sins sort of Pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the holy ghost to glorify him.” As far as leftists are concerned, to criticize Pride Month would be akin to ripping up Betsy Ross’ American flag while standing in front of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and Butker wasn’t finished.

[Rummyfan]

I stand with Harrison Butker.

Emphasis mine BTW.

Also BTW, his jersey is flying off the shelf in sales.

[Red Badger]

Lord, Help him!......................

[Rummyfan]

The NFL wasn’t standing for this. The values of our society had to be affirmed against this renegade. The league’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, Jonathan Beane, announced Wednesday that "Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger."

Yes, of course it does. Diversity is our strength, and all that. War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is our strength, too. What is striking about Beane’s statement is not so much that the NFL has now distanced itself from a concept that most human beings took for granted as axiomatically true for millennia, but that it saw fit to condemn Butker....

[rktman]

nfl on its knees again at the alter of deviance. Glad I gave them up years ago.

[gibsonguy]

Time for the Bud Light Treatment”

It’s been time for years. The fools that run the NFL are some of the wokest a-holes in the world. The NFL Is as dead as 8-tracks to me

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he auctioned off his OWN jersey and donated the proceeds to Benedictine College?

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[Rummyfan]

Full Text: Harrison Butker of Kansas City Chiefs Graduation Speech

[drypowder]

Yeah, the “take the knee” BS was enough for me. I haven’t watched it since.

[rktman]

To borrow———”How dare you!”. 😊👍

[Wallace T.]

Harrison Butker has placed the NFL into a dilemma. The woke mob will demand more than a PC platitude from the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs. If the league or the team fail to do more than a sternly worded letter, the leftists will have to unleash their thugs and soy boys on professional football and their woke advertisers. If they discipline Butker by demanding a retraction or firing him, they place themselves at risk of a Bud Light or Gillette type boycott by real Americans. Professional football is already slipping in popularity. All I can say, good for Harrison Butker.

[Alberta's Child]

My only criticism of Butker is that he plays in the NFL. That basically makes him a mercenary for depraved criminals as far as I’m concerned … but at least he’s going about earning his living honestly.

[traderrob6]

I haven’t watched an NFL game in a decade. After being a longtime fan it really surprised me how little I miss it.

[NorthMountain]

Sorry ... I can’t boycott the NFL.

I cut them out of my life when they kowtowed to Colin Krappernick.

[Alberta's Child]

I honestly wonder how many NFL fans there are among the graduates who heard his speech. I hope the number is zero.

[FreedomPoster]

I was never a huge fan, the kneeling ended it entirely.

[HYPOCRACY]

A diversity officer for a league that is 60% black. Didn’t Earn It. Parasite pig.

[ducttape45]

If there any Christians still watching the NFL, or attending the games, this ought to make them think twice. It’s time for everyone who has morals and integrity to stop giving the NFL, and any other sports venue to promotes sin, their time and money.

[moovova]

Not gonna happen. After the kneeling that took place during the National Anthem, you would’ve thought AMERICA would’ve turned their backs on the NFL. There was a half-aas effort, but that didn’t last long. Heck, there are many here that still proudly strut their NFL colors...even after all the blustery announcements of “I’m done with the NFL”.

[SecondAmendment]

America has gone full on Goebbels, every entertainment outlet must parrot the morals and values that the ruling class wants the masses to adopt, without exception.

Any opposition is to be ruthlessly eliminated.