Nike

[_Maksutov]

Oh? I just bought out the local Nike outlet store's inventory, went to an old veterans' home, outfitted every resident personally, and then took the rest to Pioneer Park. There I slung gear like a cracked out Kris Kringle shouting Black Lives Matter while playing world music from NPR. The cops patrolling the park were so moved they began to cry and threw their guns and badges into the trash bins. Motorists stopped their cars to give me a standing ovation.

I'm on the Left side of herstory.

- Doc

You weren't even in the drum circle. Poser.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Oh? I just bought out the local Nike outlet store's inventory, went to an old veterans' home, outfitted every resident personally, and then took the rest to Pioneer Park. There I slung gear like a cracked out Kris Kringle shouting Black Lives Matter while playing world music from NPR. The cops patrolling the park were so moved they began to cry and threw their guns and badges into the trash bins. Motorists stopped their cars to give me a standing ovation.

I'm on the Left side of herstory.

- Doc

Nope. NPR doesn’t play music.

The rest, I’m sure, is all true.

I wonder if I'll actually get an apology...

https://www.npr.org/music/radio

- Doc

[_canpakes]

I wonder if I'll actually get an apology...

https://www.npr.org/music/radio

- Doc

Well, that's cool. I'm behind the times on this after living in a state for a few decades in which the NPR affiliate only played some classic jazz during the wee hours. Nice to see that there are now some other options from elsewhere.

Absolutely, I apologize for slighting the good folks at NPR (and your public listening habits while playing Kris Kringle on crack), but I'm afraid that I can't apologize for not being crazy about classic jazz. Lawd knows I've tried, but I just can't do jazz.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

You're probably right that each local affiliate can determine its own content, more or less. I've caught enough 'Sounds of the Electric Congo during Ramadan by The Utopian Mariachis' to understand eclectic doesn't equate to good taste.

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

Is that true? Like, at all? That has "war on Christmas" levels of fictional persecution written all over it. Granted, wanting to stop racially discriminatory police brutality is a more laudable goal than evangelical proselytizing, but I'm not sure there is much overlap at all between the % of the public who praises Kaepernick's form of protest and condemns Tebow's ostentatious prayer poses. This is mostly because the Tebow condemnation was minor and generally rose to the level of poking fun at him for being obnoxious and secondarily because people who support Kaepernick aren't necessarily non-religious.

The meme relies on surface level stereotype thinking that you'd expect out of a conservative chainmail / viral Facebook post.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I dunno. If it was facile then the NYT is guilty of promulgating it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/spor ... tball.html

At the intersection of faith and football, the fervor that surrounds both Tebow’s beliefs and his struggles in his second season for the Denver Broncos has escalated into a full-blown national debate over religion and its place in sports.

While Tebow is not the first openly religious athlete, the circumstances surrounding his performance this season are so unusual, the N.F.L. is experiencing a rare, if not unprecedented, religious feud.

And let's not forget partisans were deliberately misrepresenting Tebow's quiet reflections with a deliberate false narrative:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjS923QhbtI ... e=ig_embed

Anyway. I recall 'Tebow'ing' was very controversial and every pundit on the face of the earth had a lot to say about it, and many who criticized Tebow for using his NFL platform to push his faith praise Kap for using his NFL platform to push his political narrative.

- Doc

[_canpakes]

I dunno. If it was facile then the NYT is guilty of promulgating it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/spor ... tball.html

At the intersection of faith and football, the fervor that surrounds both Tebow’s beliefs and his struggles in his second season for the Denver Broncos has escalated into a full-blown national debate over religion and its place in sports.

While Tebow is not the first openly religious athlete, the circumstances surrounding his performance this season are so unusual, the N.F.L. is experiencing a rare, if not unprecedented, religious feud.

And let's not forget partisans were deliberately misrepresenting Tebow's quiet reflections with a deliberate false narrative:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjS923QhbtI ... e=ig_embed

Anyway. I recall 'Tebow'ing' was very controversial and every pundit on the face of the earth had a lot to say about it, and many who criticized Tebow for using his NFL platform to push his faith praise Kap for using his NFL platform to push his political narrative.

- Doc

This is an interesting but imperfect comparison. In the end Tebow doesn't seem to have suffered career-wise for his occasional 'Thanks' to The Almighty for being on his side of victory. Nor did he have to deal with a President who intentionally misrepresented the action of kneeling, mounted a Twitter war about it, and used that deception in the worst way to rally his base for his own political benefit, with repulsive undertones regarding patriotism and race to boot.

[_EAllusion]

I dunno. If it was facile then the New York Times is guilty of promulgating it:

"Full blown national debate," seems hyperbolic, but the Times is gonna Times. What the article doesn't refer to is people intensely condemning him in a way that seems to earn the kind of descriptions it gives. For example, thinking of him as a traitor to America who deserves to die while blacklisting him in is profession. The President of the United States didn't mount a smear campaign against Tebow. Criticisms of Tebow were regulated to those who think prayer shouldn't be so publicly ostentatious, people annoyed that he was loved by a certain kind of naïve fan who didn't realize he sucked, and as a platform to criticize those who think God plays a role in the outcomes of sporting events. And a lot of that was in the form of gentle mocking that seems quaint today. Tebow also got flak for using his fame to promote regressive social conservatism, but that's not criticizing him for just sharing is beliefs, but criticizing him for the content of those beliefs. But all of that was minor compared to Kaepernick, not that big of a deal in the big scheme of things, and not necessarily from the exact same people praising Kaepernick. While you might think preachers at traditional black Churches condemned Tebow for praying in the middle of football games and hypocritically praised Kaepernick for protesting abuses in the criminal justice system, I'm not so sure that's actually true.

Tebow remained enormously popular throughout this and I'm not sure there actually was that many people who, in the words of the meme, told Tebow to "stop taking a knee." And of those that did, a certain % of them were quite religious people who have a problem with his in-your-face brand of piety who probably wouldn't be on Kaepernick's side either.

Anyway. I recall 'Tebow'ing' was very controversial and every pundit on the face of the earth had a lot to say about it, and many who criticized Tebow for using his NFL platform to push his faith praise Kap for using his NFL platform to push his political narrative.

- Doc

Many people are saying this post is making up people to criticize because evidence can't back it up.

[_Kevin Graham]

- Doc

I can't think of a single person who did this. Cute meme though. I'm sure it must be true since someone put it together, and memes are always right.