re: Get in here statist: LSU anthem controversy

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They aren’t employees

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I'm interested in running with this and digging further...couldn't a case be made that they are "de facto" employees as the NIL money is due to their association with the university? I'm not arguing a position one way or the other, I'm just interested as to how that debate might hash out.

I do believe the athletes should be present and standing, however. Not through the use of legislation - but consequences. If you want to kneel, fine. But you have to accept being booed, heckled, etc. You can't pick when your free speech applies and others is denied. Of course, there's a line there too...

Mainly, I'm pissed off that the one minute we used to have to remind us that there's something that binds us - the anthem - has been torn apart. Leftists: "You can't force us to kneel!". Same leftists: "If you don't use my pronouns you should be jailed!".

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