It’s not often that we devote space to undressing specific pro-Kaepernick arguments made by the liberal sports media. In truth, were we to focus on such a thing, Breitbart would have to hire five new writers and a corresponding number of full-time mental health professionals.
However, the pro-Kaepernick argument advanced on Twitter by Mike Florio’s Pro Football Talk, is so beyond absurd that it merits its own discussion.
On Thursday, Andrew Perloff of the Dan Patrick Show tweeted some comments made on the DP Show by ESPN’s Sage Steele, regarding Colin Kaepernick’s continued unemployment:
"They are business owners. They have a right [not to sign Colin Kaepernick]." – Sage Steele on @dpshow
— Andrew Perloff (@andrewperloff) August 24, 2017
This mere statement of fact was met by this statement of sheer lunacy by Pro Football Talk:
Under that same theory, business owners have a right to completely ignore all state and federal human rights laws. https://t.co/czF4oxC6hy
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 24, 2017
For the purposes of this discussion, let’s set some things straight at the outset: there never has, and never will be, a law, that requires anyone to sign Colin Kaepernick to an NFL contract.
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk may believe that there should be a law requiring teams to do so. However, it is a demonstrable fact that no such legal requirement exists. Therefore, unlike laws passed by state and federal authorities, no NFL team could be compelled to sign Kaepernick against their will. Making any analogy between Kaepernick and human rights laws completely absurd.
Pro Football Talk explained his position while responding to another twitter user:
EEO laws = human rights laws = civil rights laws. Regardless of the label, owning a business isn't a license to do whatever you want. https://t.co/UOVg3JfVFS
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 24, 2017
No, owning a business is not a license to do whatever you want. Though, being a state or federal authority isn’t a license to do whatever you want either. Have circumstances existed when government mandates that businesses hire certain people? Of course, but those instances apply to entire ethnic groups. Not to individual people who walked away from their job.
Which brings us to an inconvenient truth that no one in the leftist sports media wants to bring up. Colin Kaepernick isn’t unemployed right now because no one will hire him. Kaepernick is unemployed because he voluntarily walked away from the 49ers. Would the 9ers have cut him anyway? Perhaps, but he had a contract with an NFL football team and decided to walk out on it. Good luck turning Kaepernick into a civil rights case when he left his job, and not the other way around.
Nor, can hiring someone you deem to be bad for your business, ever fall under human rights laws.
Colin Kaepernick has done a really good job of destroying everything he comes in contact with. Apparently that now extends to the intellectual credibility of leftist sports sites. Then again, it’s not like they had that much credibility to lose.
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