Posted on 07/02/2020 11:05:50 PM PDT by knighthawk
Nike appeared to have pulled Washington Redskins merchandise off its website Thursday night hours after team sponsor FedEx publicly called on the franchise to change its name.
Searches on Nike’s website for the team's apparel yielded no results. The Washington Redskins name was also scrubbed from a menu listing all 31 other NFL teams on Nike’s online marketplace.
Nike did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
If they want a really offensive name they could always go “The Washington Lobbyist.”
Sick.
As if this has anything to do with police brutality anywhere.
Sick.
As if this has anything to do with police brutality anywhere.
great resource page. once people realise it’s all politics, the BLM nonsense can end. let them change the name of their cause to “Marxists Matter”:
2 Jul: Gatestone Institute: Black Lives Matter: “We Are Trained Marxists” - Part I
by Soeren Kern
Black Lives Matter is a Marxist revolutionary movement aimed at transforming the United States into a communist dystopia. BLM states that it wants to abolish the nuclear family, police, prisons and capitalism. BLM leaders have threatened to “burn down the system” if their demands are not met. They are also training militias...
BLM, which is not registered as a non-profit organization for tax purposes, has raised tens of millions of dollars in donations. BLM’s finances are opaque. BLM’s donations are collected by ActBlue, a fundraising platform linked to the Democratic Party and causes associated with it. Indeed, BLM leaders have confirmed that their immediate goal is to remove U.S. President Donald J. Trump from office...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16181/black-lives-matter?fbclid=IwAR2kVlsyzHPBJ87pytpf_4gBB2nr9QJUdBjQe3sBe5-NDv9hu2xiDPqJiZE
Bye Bye Nike- Haven’t bou8ght one of your products since colin debacle- Now this- good riddance-
Washington Deficits.
Yawn....
colossal hypocrites....
I agree. Washington is a terrible name for a team and needs to be changed.
in UK, Comcast/NBC Universal-owned Sky Sports seems to be forcing their reporters to embrace the BLM hoax:
3 Jul: Daily Mail: Now you see them, now you don’t! BLM badges disappear again from Sky Sports’ Premier League after returning for a day – after the BBC branded them ‘political’ and BANNED them from screens
By Faith Ridler
Matt Le Tissier said he had only worn the badge after being asked to do so by bosses at the broadcaster (Sky/Comcast/NBC Universal), while stressing he ‘could not support’ the cause’s anti police and capitalist aims...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8484813/BLM-badges-disappear-Sky-Sports-Premier-League.html
2 Jul: UK Sun: WATCH YOUR WORDS Sky Sports add ‘nitty gritty’ to banned list due to ‘slavery links’ as leaked email shows prohibited words
by Dave Fraser
Match reporters and commentators are said to have been sent the message in a bid to ensure they are aware of the connotations particular phrases have...
... Sky Sports have put on extra sessions with anti-racism organisation Kick It Out and the PFA (Professional Footballers’ Association).
The broadcasters were keen to ensure all reporters used appropriate language and were sensitive with their phrasing while discussing Black Lives Matter stories.
And “nitty gritty” has emerged as one such phrase that must be avoided, according to the Daily Mail.
While there is some debate over the origin of the phrase, it’s believed it refers to the debris left after a slave ship was emptied.
However, the list of banned words is said to have sparked uproar amongst some Sky Sports staff - who claim they now face an “absolute minefield” every time the go on air...
The source said: “There are phrases most people would have absolutely no idea would cause offence and that, to be frank, I’d be amazed if people were offended by.
“It’s making what is already a difficult job harder and it feels unnecessary.
“There are obvious things that should not be said and I think everyone believes that education on these issues needs to be improved.
“But this feels like we are tripping over ourselves.”...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/12008216/sky-sports-banned-words-list-leaked/
I bet that’s against Nikes contract with the NFL.
Frankly both companies can collapse as they’ve both used block people as their slave labor.
Nike? The company that for years has been using foreign slave labor to make their products so they could sell them over here at ridiculously high prices so they could get rich?
They could call them the DC Seth Riches...
The Redskins are about the biggest money making machine in the NFL. Years ago my brother worked for Frito Lays. They were the’’official’’ potato chip of The Washington Redskins.
That’s it, Nike, keep digging that hole. You pussies.
change the name to
Humptulips
or
Tokeland
problem solved...
Mobocracy.
NFL...meh.
the truth is getting out.
Iain Dale of LBC Radio UK (owned by Global Media & Entertainment), the station that terminated Nigel Farage’s contract after he said BLM was like the Taliban:
Tweet: Iain Dale, LBC Radio
I stand corrected.
On the BLM Gofundme page it does indeed still say: “Developing and delivering training, police monitoring and strategies for the abolition of police.”
2 Jul 2020
(earlier tweet)
Tweet: Iain Dale, Presenter LBC Radio
I see BLMUK have removed the ‘defund the Police’ part of their policy platform on their GoFundMe page. The ‘Abolish capitalism’ bit still remains.
Everyone can support the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’, but I do not and will never support an organisation which is proto-Marxist.
2 Jul 2020
reply:
Marigold:
How many big companies that have donated millions
££££s to BLM will want their money back.
They have given their money to an organisation who wants to destroy this country.
Don’t they have lawyers to check these organisations before backing them?
What fools !
reply:
Craig:
I wonder if LBC will apologise to @Nigel_Farage - it seems he had them summed up from the start ETC...
https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1278625473300516865
behind paywall:
2 Jul: UK Telegraph: Of course black lives matter, but the unelected BLM Marxists should not matter
More and more people, after rushing to show they’re not racist by “taking the knee”, will think twice on realising BLM’s hardcore radicalism
by Tom Harris
(BLM website) “We’re guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white-supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world.”...
GoFundMe: UKBLM FUND
Black Lives Matter UK (BLMUK) is a coalition of black activists and organisers across the UK. We’ve been organising since 2016 for justice in our communities.
We’re guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white-supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world. We build deep relationships across the diaspora and strategise to challenge the rise of the authoritarian right-wing across the world, from Brazil to Britain...
Our commitment to all black lives means that we lift up the experiences of the most marginalised in our communities, including but not limited to working class queer, trans, undocumented, disabled, Muslim, sex workers, women/non-binary, HIV+ people...
How we’ll spend the funds!
Developing and delivering training, police monitoring and strategies for the abolition of police...
https://au.gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund
NOT HARD TO FIND! EXCEPT FOR THE FAKENEWSMSM/DEMS!
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