But they weren’t going to have no kneelers, so you weren’t going to cut them any slack.
No people don’t. I’ve explained these contractual obligations to folks on multiples of these threads over the two season and most people willfully don’t get it. Most of them take the position that anybody that would sign any document that keeps them from firing any employee any time for any or even no reason must be stupid.
Problem for Papa John is as soon as he took a position his pizza became part of the issue. Extra bad news for him of course that his pizza is mediocre, but that alienated some customers and some of the support for him on the web was from less than savory folks (let’s face there are people whose primary reason for getting up on this issue is the chance to say nasty things about black people, it’s a big world, some people just suck). Then he tried to back around to gain separation from the people that just suck, and wound up alienating the non-suck people that supported him. And if he’d just kept his fool mouth shut his only problem would be mediocre pizza and he would have alienated nobody. Instead his problem is mediocre pizza and managing to alienate both sides.
“But they weren’t going to have no kneelers”
That was not apparent early on, so you don’t know what I would or wouldn’t have done.
“I’ve explained these contractual obligations to folks on multiples of these threads over the two season and most people willfully don’t get it.”
How much of that is just bluster? Maybe they understand, but just want to complain about it.
“some of the support for him on the web was from less than savory folks (let’s face there are people whose primary reason for getting up on this issue is the chance to say nasty things about black people, it’s a big world, some people just suck).”
So, he was so afraid that the left would call him a racisssss that he turned tail and ran, offending people who are offended by that kind of cowardice. As I said, his problem was more reversing himself than taking a stand in the first place.
“And if he’d just kept his fool mouth shut his only problem would be mediocre pizza and he would have alienated nobody.”
A man, even a businessman, has a moral duty to speak out against evil. A man, even a businessman, has a moral duty to alienate the forces of evil. “Private Joker is silly and he’s ignorant, but he’s got guts, and guts is enough.”
Papa John didn’t display guts, and he paid for it. Now, you ladies carry on.”