“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.”
By the time Dallas took a knee as a team (not technically during the anthem remember) it was no longer early on. By that point there had been kneelers (very few after the first couple of weeks, but still some) for an entire season. By the time Trump talked it was quite apparent there were going to be kneelers again this year and there were still some holdover from 2016.
Doesn’t matter. Bluster is the primary fuel of boycotts anyway. If people don’t want to understand they will not understand. Keeping in mind too there’s long been a strange prerogative in this country to denigrate the rich, there’s a good chunk of folks who WANT rich people to be dumb and wrong. Which is why the smart rich people stay anonymous and don’t take a lot of positions on anything in public, just feeds the innate resentment.
Not sure he was afraid what the leftists would say or just was shocked to find out the actual racists were backing him. That’s something folks need to get used to in this modern social media world, there are always going to be jerkwads that agree with you, try not to worry about it.
Kneeling isn’t evil. Stupid maybe, but not evil. This is a country built on the ability of the people to complain openly about the government. It’s one of the things that makes us awesome. And you don’t even have to be right. And Papa John didn’t alienate the forces of evil, well not JUST the forces of evil, he successfully alienated pretty much everybody.
Papa John displayed stupid.