this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
136 points (99.3% liked)
Palestine
1737 readers
358 users here now
A community to discuss everything Palestine.
Rules:
-
Posts can be in Arabic or English.
-
Please add a flair in the title of every post. Example: “[News] Israel annexes the West Bank ”, “[Culture] Musakhan is the nicest food in the world!”, “[Question] How many Palestinians live in Jordan?”
List of flairs: [News] [Culture] [Discussion] [Question] [Request] [Guide]
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
i suspect that kapernick would beg to differ how the popularity will pan out.
He’s still been given sponsorships, with the added bonus (or really a trade-off) of not giving his body, and brain function (CTE) to a sport, for money.
Sports bros and punks are kind of different demographics though.
Sometimes the issue you highlight is worth losing some things.
just like the nike ad.
i'm glad nike gave him the endorsement; he's going to need the money since no football team or league will ever give him a serious chance at a livelihood for the rest of his life.
Isn't his net worth in the millions?
Nike supports apartheid, no one should take their money or buy their products
yeah, wo the endorsement, he would have had to work a life like mine; obscure and unknown. lol
Everyone should be able to live a comfortable life regardless of occupation, that should be goal at least imo
Bump the NFL out of the way. Kapernick is the celebration, as Bob Vylan and Roger Waters are the celebration. And corgiwithalaptop.
Tell me more about this corgiwithalaptop?
Their post history is available, afaik.
?
They are openly advocating against an ongoing genocide that our governments are funding unconditionally in opposition to the vast majority of the populations
And I don't think Kapernick's activism made him any less popular, I also don't follow football
you'd think that this kind of altruism would be well received; but sacheen littlefeather proved that even the most bleeding heart liberals do not receive your message well if it contradicts their own understanding of the world.
Well, liberalism is ultimately incompatible with human rights. As evident by how it historically and currently sides with fascism and the existence of liberal zionism
This is a good counterpoint -- there's a real career risk here, which is part of what makes it such a meaningful statement -- but Kaepernick was in a very different employment situation. For him, taking substandard offers (whatever non-NFL pro league was active at the time) wasn't worth it because of injury risk. So he had only 32 possible employers (realistically, fewer had QB needs) and they actively collude all the time. Extremely easy to get blackballed in that environment.
Bob Vylan will lose money off this, but they can find smaller venues to play and doing so can't jeopardize their career the same way a knee injury in the USFL could for Kaepernick. It's not a career ender.