> Colin Kaepernick didn't get blowback for recognizing a cause , he got blowback for dragging it into the game, and choosing a particularly political way of expressing it.
Colin Kaepernick has saved zero lives, encouraged zero people not to get shot. This comic is meant to shut people up, ironically.
In more irony, in the case OP points out, it's likely that the outcome was positive because the people involved were given an opportunity to save face.
>>Colin Kaepernick has saved zero lives, encouraged zero people not to get shot.
He also has not brutalized or outright murdered someone, all the while hiding behind his uniform and the power and privilege it grants him.
What he did was use his platform as a star player to raise awareness about one of the most important issues of our time. You may be bitter that he brought politics into entertainment. But that says more about you than about him.
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