Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Jemele Hill

And I've finally found an issue I agree Jemele Hill on. She nails it.

UPDATE: How do I square this with Kap? Easy. There are such things as a positive and a negative right. Neither of these issues are exactly "rights" issues, but the model for thinking works. Kap does not have a "right" to play on an NFL team. But Morey does have a "right" to not be fired for speaking freely. In fact, Kap was never fired at all. He knelt at NFL games and wasn't fired as a result. His situation was quite a bit more nuanced and complicated. This Morey tweet situation isn't nuanced or complicated AT ALL. Morey said what he said on twitter. It alienated a foreign government interested in holding onto power who now insist he be removed. The entire situation is pure capitulation to an authoritarian regime for money.

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