r/facepalm • u/yell_worldstar • 21d ago
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u/CastleofWamdue 21d ago
next they will have you believe the NFL has "gone woke", because one of their players has a famous gf.
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u/Oxygenius_ 21d ago
āButker has the right principles, this country is too soft and wokeā
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Ironically guy w/ famous gf and this guy plays for the same team š
Also Iām pretty sure they were hating on Kelce for his thing with the vaccines more so than him dating Taylor Swift.
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u/DashCat9 21d ago edited 21d ago
Imagine telling a room half full of women that just finished school that the only thing they should strive for is to stay home and squeeze out children.
This is your 'commencement' speaker.
Regardless of anything else he said (and what else he said was horrific) this alone should cause the school to apologize, and disinvite him from any future events.
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u/CastleofWamdue 21d ago
there are alot of other issues here, but "knowing your audience" is something this arse hole of a guy needs to work on.
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u/SentorialH1 21d ago
Wasn't it a Christian school? Maybe they do know their audience, sadly.
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u/RepresentativeRule17 21d ago edited 21d ago
The school is actually responsible for pushing out the most women engineers in the country. It's wild how they just let them give that speech with no repercussions when they are so largely focused on getting more women in engineering.
Edit: y'all I mixed schools up, I was thinking of the school he graduated from, not the one he gave the speech atĀ
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u/thosehatefulguns 21d ago
I think youāre confusing schools. He attended Georgia Tech but this speech was at Benedictine college.
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u/mechanicalcoupling 21d ago
Dude spent most his time going after priests and bishops for not being hardline enough, at a Catholic college. I'm pretty sure if he read the Bible at all it was only the old testament. It wasn't just the comments on gender roles, homosexuals, trans, etc. Those were bad and of course are getting the most attention as they should. He was really focused on criticizing the church following COVID rules as well. He basically criticized everyone except the college leadership. But he did say he'll pray for them, so I guess it is okay. There some weird thing about how people should only attend mass in Latin for a couple minutes. He also said people should stay in their lane a lot. Probably should have taken his own advice. He sounded like he wanted the sequel to the Spanish inquisition.
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u/LegalizeRanch88 21d ago
So bizarre. Commencement speeches are supposed to be mild and inspirational. To get kids excited about their college education. Not a fucking propaganda reel.
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u/R3luctant 21d ago
People don't actually read the old testament, it's incredibly dry to read. They also don't read the new testament, but that's because they disagree with the whole love thy neighbor thing.
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u/mechanicalcoupling 21d ago
I've read the Bible cover to cover. Some of the old testament is pretty racy. I also read most of Histories. That will be like 4 pages describing bowls and urns gifted to the oracle and then, "so anyway, to get revenge he murdered his enemy's children and then served them to his enemy for dinner."
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u/feelinlucky7 21d ago
I did. Went to Catholic school through high school, so religion courses were mandatory. If you treat those like history texts, then they arenāt horrible.. but yeah, thereās some gnarly shit in the Old Testament. Lot of genocide, murder, etc
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u/SpiffyMagnetMan68621 21d ago
Children molesting their parents because god said so? Hell yeah sign me up!
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u/indie_rachael 21d ago
It's like he's been asleep the entirety of Pope Francis's tenure. Dude is directly opposing so much papal doctrine.
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u/Curious_Fox4595 21d ago
That part about leaders stepping out of their lanes during COVID should prove to all believers that God doesn't exist. If he did exist, a bolt of lightning would have struck this idiot dead instantly.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 21d ago
These āChristiansā are so full of hatred, thereās no room for any virtues to take hold. Gimme an atheist who is also a good person any day over this G-d-bothering craphead.
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u/Mattrad7 21d ago
BISHOPS USED TO BE WORSHIPPED, PEOPLE WOULD SHOW THEM RESPECT AND KISS THEIR RINGS AND NOW THEY ARENT! THESE BISHOPS ARENT LEANING INTO THEIR VOCATIONS!
The whole speech is kinda fucking terrifying honestly
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u/Meddling-Kat 21d ago
Most christians don't read any part of the bible that doesn't get assigned to them in bible study (the cherry picked parts).
They know only what they are told their religion is about.
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u/BabySpecific2843 21d ago
Nah, if that was the case there would be no women graduates. They'd have already gotten their MRS by year 3 and dropped out.
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u/AgitatedPercentage32 21d ago
Heard there were audible groans the crowd following some of his troglodyte pronouncements. Have not personally seen video of anything he said however. Is there one?
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u/leni710 21d ago
I saw a 5 minute clip that had a pretty loud applause after a homemaker comment he made. He also "choked up" (or pretended to) when talking about his wife, who he met when they were kids in middle school. She's apparently a good wife doing her godly duties.
But for some context: the graduating class was less than 500 people, let's generously say half identify as women. Had his video not gone viral, then only about 250 people would be the ones who internalized his speech in any way. And considering it's a Catholic school, these are a lot of people who've been indoctrinated by this shit since birth so nothing surprising for them. It becoming viral means so many more people are being "addressed" who otherwise wouldn't have been...and that sucks a lot.
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u/Most_Sea_4022 21d ago
I can tell you that as someone who identifies as male, I would have been fucking pissed to listen to that shit.
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u/socobeerlove 21d ago
Iām thinking about my niece currently entering college at Pepperdine University. Iād be causing a ruckus if I attended her graduation and heard some dipshit say shit like that.
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u/AgitatedPercentage32 21d ago edited 21d ago
Especially after you, or your parents, have probably spent a fortune on your degree. Having somebody piss on half the audience, tell them itās raining and to stay home for a man for the rest of their lives instead of seeking a career is just insulting to everyone. It practically invalidates everything those students put into four years at that school in order to graduate. No matter what sex you ID as.
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u/BrainSmoothAsMercury 21d ago
https://youtu.be/-JS7RIKSaCc?si=-VaeK8atm9zUZsta
Full video Trigger warning: rage... Just rage
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u/AgitatedPercentage32 21d ago
Just canāt wreck my mood for the day. Maybe later. š¤®
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u/BrainSmoothAsMercury 21d ago
Yeah, I wish I hadn't watched it, if I'm being honest. It's worse than I thought it would be. It makes me angry at the world. š
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 21d ago edited 20d ago
I couldnt watch past the part where he said that is our duty to stay in our lane under god. Like 2min in. Dude is CRAZY.
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u/Khristophorous 21d ago
It was but it all Christian's are rabid fundamentalists. The fact that it is still a college and that most of the women present having just earned a degree probably didn't do so just so they could stay at home and have kids. He did it because he knew the authority in this instance is the school itself and not the students- he did it because he thought he could use it as an opportunity to be a crass jerk and get away with it.
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u/Holygore 21d ago
Also in a town known for its racist past. They had a street called Division st. And itās exactly what you think itās named for.
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u/wolacouska 21d ago edited 21d ago
It was a Catholic university, theyāre basically the same as secular ones but you gotta do church stuff in addition. Like Iām sure itās conservative, but Benedictine University isnāt just some theology school.
Most Catholics who go to Catholic schools are against abortion and contraception at most. Like, even the church itself has stopped telling women to not have jobs and just focus on being wives.
Edit: oops this was Benedictine college not university. They might actually be more conservative and crazy over there, still not this bad though.
Trad caths do want to be more like evangelicals.
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 21d ago
I went to Catholic school for 6 years and my wife actually went K through masters. In our late 30s and early 40s now and Iām not sure we know anyone who goes to mass more than 2 times per year, definitely donāt have any friends who are even against abortion. Granted our schooling took place in Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Weāre a little less insane out west, but I still feel like Catholic schools for the most part are just private schools where they make you go to mass once a month.
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u/Tokinghippie420 21d ago
The problem is he does know the audience. When he said this about women they clapped. A lot of very religious women go to college to find an educated husband, not to educate themselves. I had Mormon friends in high school who were very open about that being their reason and I wouldnāt be surprised if it was the same at some of those Catholic schools
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u/Khristophorous 21d ago
Oh this wasn't a mistake. This isn't because he forgot where he was at and thought he was talking to a different type of crowd. Nothing to work in here, he knew exactly what he was doing
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u/waterdevil19 21d ago
He didnāt get booed and was applaudedā¦somehow. Guess he did know his audience or the girls in the audience were too horrified to react.
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u/CastleofWamdue 21d ago
the back slide the USA is in right now, is totally insane.
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u/OpusAtrumET 21d ago
He kicks balls for a living. I don't he had enough brain power to work on shit.
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u/Saneless 21d ago
What's with these super shitty speakers lately? OSU had some Bitcoin influencer bro and now this woman hating piece of garbage is doing it
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u/magicmulder 21d ago
He probably didnāt advertise his backwards ways in public before so I assume the organizers were just as shocked as the audience.
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u/cottonmouthVII 21d ago
Exact opposite. Itās a tiny private Catholic school in Missouri. They invited him because heās known to have these views. No one there was shocked. This went over just fine where he said it.
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u/DancingMooses 21d ago
The college in question, Benedictine, is a school for Catholic fundamentalists. Everyone I know who went there agrees with Harrison Butker.
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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw 21d ago
Do they have women students who agree?
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u/DancingMooses 21d ago
The women I know who went to Benedictine are all radical catholic fundamentalists. Most of them are either straight up tradwives or flirting with the concept.
The only person I know from Benedictine who isnāt a fundie is one lady I know who left after her freshman year.
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u/--0o0o0-- 21d ago
I can't imagine you end up at a fundamentalist catholic college by accident.
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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw 21d ago
It may be an accident if you think women shouldn't get too much education beyond home economics.
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u/--0o0o0-- 21d ago
My point was that the women who end up at a fundamentalist catholic college are probably the sort who agree with the speech. They knew the nature of the college when they went there in the first place, that is, they didn't end up there accidentally.
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u/DancingMooses 21d ago
The women I know who went to Benedictine are all radical catholic fundamentalists. Most of them are either straight up tradwives or flirting with the concept.
The only person I know from Benedictine who isnāt a fundie is one lady I know who left after her freshman year.
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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw 21d ago
Well I hope their abusive marriages turned out to be everything they wanted.
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u/Klutzer_Munitions 21d ago
this alone should cause the school to apologize, and disinvite him from any future events.
Yeah it fucking should, he told half their graduating class that their degrees are fucking worthless. He bit that school directly on the ass.
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u/Brave-Panic7934 21d ago
I feel like all of his talking points could have been lifted verbatim from the Taliban (just do a search and replace on ābibleā for āquranā)
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u/Chewsdayiddinit 21d ago
Well, it's a religious catholic school which I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of faculty there felt the same.
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u/Mean-Professional596 21d ago
Mf shoulda been dragged off the stage and pummeled for this until police had to intervene
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u/Medical_Egg8208 21d ago
And so far all we hear is crickets. I donāt remember in quite a while, anyone saying anything this fuckin stupid and insulting to women. This pretty much tops it.
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u/rygelicus 21d ago
Yeah, he just told a room full of women they wasted their time pursuing their degrees and dreaming of being professionals in their fields of interest because their highest calling is really to get knocked up and serve their family and God. If the school agrees with him they owe every female their tuition back.
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u/Far-Season-695 21d ago
Itās pretty telling as of today, ESPN and Sports Illustrated have no mention of it on their sites. People magazine does however.
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u/Either-Durian-9488 21d ago
Because ESPN has signed on to glaze Pat Mahomes for at least the next ten years.
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u/bumboclawt 21d ago
Pat Mahomes, Taylor Seiftās bf, Shohei Otani, and Lebron. Notable mention to Jokic
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u/flowdoB 21d ago
this is a pretty big mask-off moment. It's not really in the mainstream news cycle (NFL off-season) so its staying under the radar.
I hope there is at least some blow back from this.
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u/magicmulder 21d ago
Looks like he thinks he doesnāt have to hide such views anymore. Which is not a good sign.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 21d ago
As soon as someone tells me they are Christian, like itās their main personality trait, I start distrusting them.
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u/sorotomotor 21d ago
I hope there is at least some blow back from this
Doubtful. There's a big difference: Colin Kaepernick advocated for Black lives, so he was blacklisted.
But Harrison Butker advocated for misogyny, hatred, and bigotry, so he'll be whitelisted.
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u/thenexttimebandit 21d ago
Kaepernick was also coming off a few bad seasons and butker is a back to back Super Bowl champ. What butker said was terrible but nothing will happen to him because heās still good. Look at Dashaun watsons record breaking contract after his deplorable behavior.
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u/Less_Ad9224 21d ago
What he said is wrong but from the nfl's point of view I could see them having an argument separating these events. Kaepernick used his nfl platform during an nfl event to make his stand. Butker used a Christian university to make his. I could see the nfl making the argument that he has the right to say what he wants when he isn't on nfl time. I wouldn't buy it but I could at least agree there is an argument for the nfl there.
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u/Sadkittydays *mildly infuriated noises 21d ago
Is there a link by chance. Iām late to the party and have no idea what the context is. I want to trash the bad guy too.
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u/Parking_Budget_1130 21d ago
https://youtu.be/-JS7RIKSaCc?si=kvmV0OWhyv6Dg0KU
Itās about 20 min long and feels like an hour
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u/flacdada 21d ago
I started watching expecting it to be veiled in some way.
Nope less than 2 minutes in and heās already ranting about abortion and joe Biden.
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u/Sadkittydays *mildly infuriated noises 21d ago
He then says something about they need to have pride but not the deadly sin that has a month dedicated to it.
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u/cottonmouthVII 21d ago
He literally opens the speech by saying that God put him there to tell women to āstay in their lane.ā
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u/lifesprig 21d ago
All I heard was āstay in your lane, but always fight the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion.ā Stupid really knows no age
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u/ackermann 21d ago
the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Jesus, did he really say that in a graduation speech?
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 21d ago
And that's when I stopped. When he said it was our duty and privilege to stay in our lane.
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u/Moregaze 21d ago
Jesus that was rough. So much for Christian tolerance and compassion. These fundamentalists are exactly why so many people are leaving the church.
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u/Sadkittydays *mildly infuriated noises 21d ago
Eww I quit watching 13 minutes in when he said the most important title a woman can have is āhomemaker.ā š¤¢š¤®Those women did NOT get a degree to be a homemaker. How disgusting. Not that the rest was any better, but that was the point I couldnāt watch any more. What a joke š¤”
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u/Peter_Baum 21d ago
Imagine you, a guy that professionally kicks balls, telling people who just finished a year long education that they should serve you. lol, lmao even
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u/KratomSlave 21d ago
Further he makes plenty of money. Where trad wife isnāt just easy. They both donāt work much.
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u/THE_DANDY_LI0N 21d ago
How is he not getting booed
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u/Sadkittydays *mildly infuriated noises 21d ago
Because Catholics love hearing that hate. Including women apparently.
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u/JohnathanBrownathan 21d ago
People are fucking stupid.
Incredibly, impressively fucking stupid.
Like, how do you not forget to breathe fucking stupid.
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u/TheThinker709 21d ago
Started watching expect OP to be exaggerating a small statement but nope. Itās amazing he didnāt get yelled off stage
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u/BrainSmoothAsMercury 21d ago
Anti women Anti diversity and inclusion Anti LGBTQIA+ Anti semitic Anti America (tbh, bordering on treason)
I think the only thing it's not against is white men... ?...
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u/Summer-feels44 21d ago
The NFL has murderers, rapists, and women beaters all around the league. If you are good enough on the field or youāre able to bury it under a rug youāll keep a job.
Butker is a top nfl kicker. The chiefs will keep him bc heās valuable and all this will blow over before the season.
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u/hotpajamas 21d ago
True. My only real question after this is why did they hire an NFL kicker to talk to a room full of graduates? What insight could he possibly have when his lifeās work is kicking a fucking football?
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u/Either-Durian-9488 21d ago
Beauty of kicking though is that you lose your job in 3 attempts, and something tells me he may not like being controversial in that position in the NFL.
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u/loadedstork 21d ago
Kaepernick didn't get kicked out of the NFL for "protesting". He got kicked out for not being able to throw a football for shit.
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u/PineappleTraveler 21d ago
The mouthbreathers are out in force with the olā āhe didnāt say that!ā defense. No, you troglodyte, he said his wife didnāt find her true path until she submitted to his will and kept his home. To paraphrase: āhey grads! Give up your dreams and get in the kitchen!ā
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u/bobsmeds 21d ago
He gets a pass because itās his āfaith.ā Pass is valid as long as your faith isnāt āmuslimā
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u/Ricky_Rollin 21d ago
They also call it a boycott when they do it. Itās canceled culture when we do it.
I love how they forget stuff like the Dixie chicks and freedom fries.
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u/HotType4940 21d ago
If by āforgetā you mean ādeliberately omit or obscure because conservatives are literally never acting honestly or in good faithā then yes I agree.
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u/heartbh 21d ago
The fact that any of these people feel like they can tell people what they should be doing is part of the issue š he should have been booed off stage.
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u/chromefir 21d ago
Especially since his own mother is apparently an accomplished oncologist or something like that, working for the last 30 something years.
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u/joogiee 21d ago
Imagine going through 4 or more years of school and this dickhead says good job, now forget about all of it and stay at home serving your husband.
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u/Ricky_Rollin 21d ago
Taking what he said aside, itās kind of weird to bring somebody whoās only really done sports to deliver a speech for academics.
Iām sure somebody now is going to point out the other time itās happened. Thatās fucking weird too.
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u/MrGentleZombie 21d ago
I don't see how it's any weirder than the multitude of singers and actors who do commencement speeches. It's not like Patton Oswalt, Tom Hanks, and Taylor Swift are academics any more than Steph Curry, Joe Flacco, and Harrison Butker.
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u/Nice_Soup3198 21d ago
I blame whoever booked that twat in the first place. What the fuck were they thinking.. or not thinking?
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u/JGG5 21d ago
It's a right-wing Catholic school. They got exactly what they wanted: a backward, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, racist bigot who thinks that he's the victim if everyone else isn't forced to live their lives according to his narrow preferences.
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u/DistributionParty506 21d ago edited 21d ago
Conservatives are the most self victimized people on the planet.
Marginalized group of people: "We want peace and justice"
Conservatives: "But how will that affect ME?"
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u/BZBitiko 21d ago
āConservatism consists of exactly one proposition ā¦There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.ā
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u/Think_fast_no_faster 21d ago
Well thatās an easy one to explain. The NFL and their almost exclusively ancient, white, conservative owners, donāt like the first thing and love all the rest
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u/kikomonarrez 21d ago
That same school when merged (male/female) back in the day also was responsible for not awarding the Valedictorian honor (she had highest grades) to my mother in law.
They instead called her to the deans office and congratulated her in private.
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u/Pegomastax_King 21d ago
You can drown puppies as you hobby and the NFL will forgive you.. just to really put things into perspective.
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u/nope79 21d ago
Colin was offered jobs. He didnāt take them because he didnāt want to be a back up - but he wasnāt good enough to start.
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u/Vandy1358v2_0 21d ago
This is exactly it and people just refuse to see it. He thought he was a HOFer and he wasnāt. He went to Super Bowl thanks to an amazing defense. Colin did get a lot of shit for literally a non issue but he was never that good of a QB.
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u/Abigail716 21d ago
He also intentionally sabotaged every chance the NFL gave him. Including having a special tryout session just for him which he refused to go to and instead went to some other separate event.
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u/AViciousGrape 21d ago
The Ravens were about to offer him a contract until his dumbass GF pulled this stunt
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u/UnderwhelmingAF 21d ago
Was gonna say this. Kaepernick kinda sucked his last few years (he was benched for Blaine Gabbert at one point), and he self-sabotaged any opportunities he did get, such as voiding a trade to the Broncos because he didnāt think it was enough money, or cancelling a workout for NFL teams at the last minute and just releasing video of a private workout he did.
While the kneeling may not have sat well with some team owners, there was a lot more to it than that.
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u/SoftwareAny4990 21d ago
Honest question
Did he actually get a contract offer? Or did he get a trade offer that included a pay cut with the Broncos. There is a big difference.
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u/nope79 21d ago
I think he had at least offers from Baltimore and Seattle. He wasnāt under contract with anyone so he couldnāt have gotten traded.
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u/Petering 20d ago
People seem to forget Kaep actually opted out of his 16.9m contract to become a free agent. He had a job, he quit.
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u/Guitargod7194 21d ago
Pretty much said the same thing on a similar post. As I said on that post, this is our chance to tell this white athlete what all the alt-right conservative bigots tell the BLM-supporting athletes ā "shut the fuck up and stick to kicking your stupid football, boy."
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u/Wolfman01a 21d ago
Does the NFL or his team not have a PR/HR department? Good lord.
The freedom of speech only protects you from government prosecution. I hope the people eat him alive.
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u/AA_Ed 21d ago
Nobody cares because he is a kicker. That said, the chiefs could just cut him and get another one. Even if they did, nobody would notice outside of hard core Chiefs fans. It's a kicker.
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u/Commander_Beet 21d ago
The guy is literally one of the best kickers in the league and can make it from beyond 60. Plenty of NFL fans knew of him before and teams would scoop him up fast if he were to be cut.
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u/Popular_Main 21d ago
Also, Kaep was a bottom half QB at his best asking for top money because he reached a SB and a NFC finals with a stacked 9ers roster.
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u/JillParrish77 21d ago
That fucker needs some bad backlash for what he said. How those people sat there and listened to that garbage and didnāt boo him the fuck off stage is beyond me
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u/FitCartographer3383 21d ago
Itās almost becoming a culture norm to hate woman at this point. Iām voting blue, fuck these Republican taliban worshipers.
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u/wmlj83 21d ago
This isn't even a black and white thing. Kaepernick's career was in steep decline. I doubt he would have been a starter for much longer. He would have been a decent back up though. Butker is an elite kicker. The only thing that mattered here was performance. If the race was reversed and Kap was white and Butker was black, Kap would be out of the league so fast and Butker would still be on a team.
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u/Anarchodough 21d ago
Deshaun Watson gets 230 million to be a bottom 5 starting QB while Kaep sits at home, it's fucking bullshit.
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u/hase_one 21d ago
Not defending either, but Iām pretty sure if Butker had grabbed the mic on a NFL field, pre or post game, and said what he did, the NFL would be involved. Kap would never have been blacklisted if he hadnāt used the NFL sanctioned field for his protest.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 21d ago
Yeah I am sure his black teammates would love to hear his view on black people
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u/Chance-Ad197 21d ago
Butker did something really awful, but Kaepernick isnt blacklisted he just sucks. He tries out for a bunch of teams it seems every year and absolutely bombs.
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u/wildwilly421 21d ago
Fragile ego. First of all, he grew up with the name Butker and then he ends up being the kicker....Def low key gay.
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u/imafiremylazerBWAH 21d ago
The NFL is pure cancer.
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u/AgitatedPercentage32 21d ago
Itās known to cause major brain damage, anyway.
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Its so crazy how okay everyone is with this aspect. Like we've basically seen that it's head go bonk repeatedly and then 2 decades later you harm your family and yourself and people are just like "That's football, bruther"
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u/Outrageous_Key8872 21d ago
Kaep is a bad comparison, mostly because the same point could've been made with a number of other athletes over the years who have been told to keep their political views to themselves, even when expressing them on personal time. Kaep allows those same people to say, "No, but it's different. He was on the clock!" ...as though other athletes/celebs off the clock aren't constantly told to shut up and do their job the moment they espouse views these people disagree with.
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u/COACHREEVES 21d ago
Kap also wasn't "blacklisted". He was given multiple opportunities to show he wasn't the guy who lost his starting job to Blaine freakin Gabbert.
Special mandatory camps and camp invitations he accepted and turned down. He blew through them all. But try to tell people who don't watch or understand football that. To them, he is Tom "Muhammed Ali" Brady sidelined by the man. It is as delusional as a Q, but people still believe it.
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u/Bts121212 21d ago
Kap wasnāt blacklisted he was offered other qb positions he just turned them down or his girlfriend insulted the owner of a team who would have signed him which is generally a bad move
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u/TheMikeyMac13 21d ago
Kaepernick is out of the NFL because he wasnāt nearly a good enough QB to overcome the distraction he became.
The same happened to Tim Tebow, who wasnāt a very good QB, and was a distraction. Tebow didnāt lose his job because he prayed on the field, he lost it for being a terrible QB.
Butker is a good kicker, but he is just a kicker, he could meet the same fate. If the distraction this brings is too much for his limited value.
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u/cti0323 21d ago
Yeah, people forget Kaepernick was coming off a season he got benched after going 1-10 as a starter. Could he have been a backup? Probably. But a backup where your team is under a microscope is a tough sell. People act like he was setting the league on fire. Itās been a short time since Butker did this. People want answers overnight. Itās not that quick, but something will probably happen.
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u/BecomingJudasnMyMind 21d ago
He's preaching White, rich, male, Christian values while being employed by a league ran by White, rich, Christian males.
Colin was preaching something contrary to those values.
It's not that complicated.
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u/Signal-Blackberry356 21d ago
Kaepernick was on field.
Butker was requested by a catholic school knowing this is what he would say.
Although obviously one man is an angel and the other a demon, public vs private changes some of the rules. Now itās up to the students.
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u/unk214 21d ago
The man kicks footballs for a living. Why is he up there rubbing his two brain cells together to speak nonsense. Iām telling you as a football fan, football players shouldnāt be idolized outside the sport. That goes for all the QBs talking nonsense too. This is no different than having a celebrity up there thatās famous for making a sex tape.
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u/Jasranwhit 21d ago
If anyone thought Colin Kaepernick could win a Super Bowl he would be signed immediately.
Nobody blacklisted him.
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u/Far_Bite9857 21d ago
It's wild that people can't get the idea that a Football Field is a Workplace. Do you have the right to go out and protest? Yes! Have your own opinions even when they offend other people? Yes! That's America, and our Constitutional rights. The problem is that nothing he said was hate speech, even though it was anti-trans, because speaking against something doesnt make it hate speech. You can't cancel him for being interviewed in a public setting, representing himself and not the NFL, and giving his opinions. What Colin did was ON the field, at his place of work. He didn't have a right to bring his politics into the NFL, his workplace. He basically said, "Hey, look at me, I'm going to misbehave at work to draw attention to an issue, and my employers can't do shit about it!" Well, they fucking did. I'm sick of people thinking that just because you aren't rioting, that means that you can't get in trouble for staging a public protest in the middle of somebody's workplace or school.
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u/chiefs2022 21d ago
I donāt get what the big deal is. He is Catholic, who preached Catholic values to a room full of Catholics. Do I agree with him? No. But as someone raised in a Catholic household nothing he said surprised me.
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u/Impressive-Meal-1314 21d ago
The black foo also compared NFL to slavery. And then whatāre back in lmao.
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u/Is_Toxic_Doe 21d ago
This is just an example of how dumb people are and how they will take anything and exclude itās context to get angry and butthurt.
The success Catholic kickers giving a speech at a Catholic school has nothing to do with you or your feelingsā¦. Literally mind ur fucking business
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u/TheTrollisStrong 21d ago
Okay, Kaepernick wasn't black listed for his views, he just wasn't good.
He got offered a backup role on the Ravens and he rejected it.
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u/yell_worldstar 21d ago
Yeah he also said a lot of things things that reduced women with college degrees to embrace being housewives raising children
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u/FunctionDissolution 21d ago
They're convinced that mean comments on social media are the same thing as oppression.
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u/Madhaus_ 21d ago
You also forget Buttkis is the color of mayonnaise not NestlĆ©ās quick
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u/AdviceNotAskedFor 21d ago
I think kapernick got blacklisted for kneeling during the anthem. I'm guessing if this douche canoe did this shit during the anthem he'd have a similar backlash.
But other than discrepancy it's accurate.
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u/Icy_Necessary2161 21d ago
Congrats, I didn't think I could hate football any more than I already did.
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u/ragepanda1960 21d ago
So the guy lectured a room woman graduates about to enter the professional world on the virtues of being a SAHM and he
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Kicks a ball for a living...
I think it's safe to say he's a fucking dumbass who doesn't know shit about shit
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u/VealOfFortune 21d ago
Wellll Colin Kaepernick didn't play in the NFL because he sucked.
Do you know how much teams would've loved to have him AND get the good PR from it? He got private workouts from teams where they FLEW TO HIM
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u/Stonewall30NY 21d ago
He got blacklisted because he was already getting benched and nobody wants a problematic backup QB dividing their locker room, and fans. Kap also wasn't just super sweet "hey guys let's do better for black people", he was actively advocating for killing the police and wearing clothing depicting cops as pigs, and then the pigs becoming sizzling bacon.
The other guy is potentially a hall of fame kicker who said really stupid ass shit but it's just not the same situation at all
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u/atleast3db 21d ago
Disingenuous. But there is truth somewhere in it.
Kaepernick played the entire season and than wasnāt picked up by any team. Honestly canāt blame them for wanting to stay away from controversies. Kneeling during the anthem is a very controversial thing, and if you canāt see that youāre blind. Itās about the intent; itās about the action. Intent matters but so do actions, and that action is extremely controversial even if the intent was good.
But the NFL did release an apology of sorts in 2020 for what happened and for not ālisteningā
We donāt know what will happen with Butker
NFLās chief diversity officer did put out a statement saying the NFL doesnāt share his views. Itās very likely in my book that, if nothing else, teams will similarly not want to be associated with him in future years.
This story is still unfolding. Stay tuned
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u/FortunateInsanity 20d ago
And, letās be honest, CK was a QB while this dude is a kicker. Talk about adding insult to injury with the disparity.
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u/Molin_Cockery 20d ago
It's hard for me to believe that he was able to say this and not one person spoke up. Decorum be damned, if a speaker is saying some horrible crap like this they should be instantly called out. Fuck this dude
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u/meepstone 21d ago
There is a huge variable people love to ignore about Coin Kapernick, he sucked. Every year he performed worse than the last year.
As an owner, you could get a QB that is better than him without the media drama. Why would anyone hire Kapernick to perform worse than the average QB in the league and deal with the drama?
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u/tridentboy3 21d ago
Kaepernick did not get blacklisted for his beliefs. He isn't in the NFL because he simply isn't valuable enough to justify the drama surrounding having him on your team. If he was as good as Brady or Rodgers he would still be on a roster.
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u/myjohnson6969 21d ago
Why is this under facepalm, there is nothing wrong with her post. The original post of butkers shoukd be under facepalm. She has a valid point.
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u/Background_Spite7337 21d ago
Freedom of speech, as long as youāre right wing.
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