Posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The NFL has a $1 billion compensation program for players who sustain brain injuries while competing in the league, however, the NFL also has a secret algorithm it uses to determine the level of dispensation awarded to each injured athlete, and argues in court that it is correct to take into consideration what it maintains is the lower average “cognitive skills” of black players compared to other races. While former and current NFL players who suffer from dementia or other brain injuries are entitled to compensation from the NFL if their injuries were sustained while competing in the league, the NFL also argues that it is correct to assume that black players have lower “cognitive skills” on average, and this should be taken into consideration when awarding compensation. However, former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 61, and his wife Amy Lewis, argue in U.S. District Court that awarding less compensation to black people is an example of inequality.
Detractors say the NFL’s algorithm is an example of “race norming,” and according to Newsweek, New York University Medical Ethicist Art Caplain explains, “Norming by race is not the stance that the NFL ought to take. It continues to look as if it’s trying to exclude people rather than trying to do what’s right, which is to help people that, clinically, have obvious and severe disability.”
Meanwhile, “The NFL’s scoring algorithm asserts that black men have lower cognitive skills to begin with and has impeded the ability for former black players to attain awards from the league’s settlement as they are required to score significantly lower than their white counterparts.” The NFL generally began admitting cognitive deficiencies could be caused from professional football in the early 2010s, but now challenges claims of cognitive injury regularly. In one high profile case,...
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LOL, I had to look if it were the Babylon Bee!
If the point of that statement is for the NFL to save money in lawsuits, you’re doing it wrong! Now, the NFL will get jumped on for ‘being racist’ and end up paying out even more.
Why is this an issue? There’s what, 9 non black players in the NFL?
I guess they’re going with the theory that any publicity is good. Or as the alleged quote from P.T.Barnum goes, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
I thought this was satire. It’s unbelievable, and disgusting. This is the same NFL that has been virtue signaling about BLM etc. They care, about money.
Colin Kaperdick lowers the average of the black tranche
Despite the NFL’s racially obscene policy, here’s another idiotic example — University of California has dropped SAT/ACT admission requirements due to “racism”
Well, it’s not racist. It might be discriminatory, and even if it’s true, it would still be a silly thing to do.
“The Bell Curve” meets profitability.
Wow!
I would put out the fire with plenty of white phosphorus and magnesium.
Well, in some sense they do have a point.
After all, who would be sitting on top of the world then turn around and blatantly disrespect the people paying them, then doubling down?
Administer some local anesthesia.
Take a scalpel and make an incision 3/4 of the way around the scalp.
Use a bone saw to slice off the skull cap.
Make a physical observation of the brain, take pictures.
Put everything back together and send the retired player home.
The Babylon Bee is the only satire site that can keep up with the left, and they're starting to lose ground.
I know...that is a tall order, being able to create satire that is indistinguishable from reality!
True or not this my very well end the NFL.
Shouldn't he count against the whites, since he's mostly white? Or are we going with the old racist 'one drop' rule these days?
Unbelievable they actually said that.
Keep in mind that the Vast Majority of NFL Owners are Very Wealthy LIBERALS. And we all KNOW for a FACT that there is Nobody in the world who is more RACIST than a Very Wealthy LIBERAL.
FACT CHECK That.
==”If that’s true then injuries may have a higher percentage of effect”
Yes, therefore a larger payout.
Perhaps they should go on strike for a better deal?
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