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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
One man's freedom of speech is not like another man's freedom of speech.
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Mariners' Steve Clevenger should be released for insensitive tweets about protesters
http://usat.ly/2d1NPxF
Mariners suspend Steve Clevenger after tweeting protesters should be treated 'like animals'
http://www.king5.com/sports/mlb/mari...mals/324745355
(Via KING 5)
I guess he 'invoked' "animals and obama" in the same tweet.
Shame the NFL didn't treat Kapernicks or all the others on that bandwagon with the same level of NIMBY attention. |
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"...
That being said:
The mariners are nine and a half games out of first place with just ten games left in the regular season. This guy is a second or third string catcher that makes close to league minimum while the starter makes 3.5 million per year.
...in context, the season is over for this guy already.
Also don't forget that we are talking about Seattle - one of the most liberal cities in the USA. Legal recreational use of the chronic, grunge as a lifestyle, a socialist city government and well...
for fuck sake it's Seattle - enough said.
If this second string catcher from Seattle had fed a Christian or a banker or a heterosexual cis-gendered plumber to the lions as a symbolic gesture for freedom of speech to shine the light on BLM-LGBT-HIJKLMNOP then Seattle would have already retired his Jersey number as the greatest Mariner of all times.
...but he didn't. He criticized the movement.
Instead, he now has plenty of time to plan for Halloween so he can go trick-or-treating with his kids...
...maybe he will get a hiLlary klinton pants-suit and dress up like an evil librarian from outerspace