klehner wrote:
Runningwithbees wrote:
With regards to the Kap drama, I find it laughable that a guy set to make over $11 million in this season alone thinks that his best avenue towards change is by "bringing awareness" to a subject by using really dumb actions to take a defensible stance on a topic.
I tend to think that somebody with his platform could do much more concrete work with what he see's as issues. Instead of having a room with a couple hundred pairs of shoes, maybe he could be investing in inner city education or diversity education for police officers or anything more productive than setting off keyboard warriors really.
With that being said, does anybody with the means to make a difference actually have any concrete ideas that are worth implementing?
No football player has the means to make a difference in other than a few lives (not that that wouldn't have value). Warren Buffet doesn't have the means to make a difference. It takes societal/cultural/policy changes to make a difference. That's what protests and "bringing awareness" is all about.
I will say that when I was at Cornell in the late 70s, I noted that at basketball games many African-Americans in the audience would not stand up during the national anthem. I also noted that those who were on the track team with me would walk out before the anthem started, so as to not be in a position where they had to choose to do what they thought was right (stand) or what their peers might expect them to do (sit in protest).
(This in no way implies any opinion of mine on what this guy has done)
You've always been a socialist but I'm shocked you wrote something so stupid.
You really think Warren Buffet had not created more real jobs than the government? Considering that government jobs are wealth transfer jobs and not possible without people creating "real" jobs... I would say you're off by at least 90%. I'll give you the 10% so you can credit government with nasa research blah blah.
I'll bet Bill Gates thought he actually created a few jobs in his lifetime and made a difference for millions of people... The fool. He should have gotten a job in a federal agency so he could have made a real difference.