re: Why wont the NFL punish Kaepernick?

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"The solution is to not give attention to him"? Every sports tv & radio show in the country is making this a major talking point. "Not bothering anybody"? You must be as disconnected with the real world as are all the liberals out there lecturing to us on our rights. Any literate American knows about our rights & who has been defending them all these centuries. But on tv & radio, there is only one perspective, the liberal one. This is not generating debate, it is pissing people off. I am no fan of Trump's but this is why he is where he is today.

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There's not a whole lot in this rant which approaches a coherent point, but I'm not lecturing anyone on their rights, but here it goes now: He has the right to protest, you have the right to call him a piece of crap. His employer has the right to make sure he complies with his contract, and the NFL has already said they don't have a rule requiring players to stand. They are, of course, free to cut him if they wish to endure the PR firestorm which would follow. That is how the free market of ideas works. I neither condemned nor endorsed Kaep's protest, just pointed out he certainly had the right to do it. Oh, and if you can't find right wing political opinions on TV and radio, you must not be looking very hard.

And yes, people should ignore it if it angers them. A news story needs continuing developments like a fire needs oxygen. Every outraged tweet or article about Kaep justifies lengthening the news cycle. He had apparently sat for previous games and no one noticed. Thus, there was no story. The story is your outrage, really, not Kaep's protest. As long as you stay outraged and people keep registering their outrage, the story will stay in the news. The moment people stop reacting to him is when the story dies. Your choice.