Bison06

TSA is a poor analogy as that doesn't cause our lawmakers to live in fear and close or limit the airports. Until mask mandates go away lawmakers are forced to make decisions based on fear. Pretty easy, they clearly don't have any measurable effect.

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. You may disagree with his political stance, but it's lazy and destructive if we always assume an opposing viewpoint is as a result of lack of intelligence. Seek to understand before trying to be understood, a really smart man said that about 2000 years ago.

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/?fbclid=IwAR1Q-qNIOgI8YKhJ6EihBSmUTD6JKsVVpUkCpjnmbRWj_G_NOGFmScUhBIk I'd genuinely like to hear from some of those on here who are pro-mask with the above information as the backdrop of the conversation. How can a person rationally say that masks make a difference?

Smart move by him. That's generational wealth that he would be potentially leaving on the table if he returned and got injured.

So when Osterholm says something you agree with, he's a credible resource again? https://www.radio.com/wccoradio/articles/dr-osterholm-questions-covid-19-guidelines-on-cloth-masks Of course he backtracked on these comments after the media storm he took, but it doesn't change the fact that he believed it and said it.

That’s a slippery slope and I think it best to not allow student athletes to even go down this road.

Get over it man. You see those little numbers following the phrases? Those are references, click on those if you think the comments are inaccurate. This isn't even controversial. Act Blue is a very, very well known democratic fundraising platform, it's not a secret they try to hide.

https://support.actblue.com/donors/about-actblue/is-actblue-run-by-the-democratic-party-or-affiliated-with-any-organizations/ https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/actblue-pac/

Of course I appreciate your opinions, I also consider myself to be open minded. Where I'm going to provide you with some resistance is your insistence that BLM is simply a phrase that aims to bring equality. This is a demonstrably false statement and I would encourage you to look deeper into the BLM movement to better understand it's political aims.

Well you didn't exactly display a level of wanting to do your own research so I though giving you the link to ActBlue and having to do your own research would be fruitless.

This is the most 2020 statement ever. Facts aren't debatable or able to be disagreed with. BLM money goes through ActBlue Charities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActBlue#:~:text=ActBlue is a nonprofit technology,empower small-dollar donors".

Are you incapable of understanding what I posted above or just purposely ignoring it? BLM means two things.

You'd be wrong if you think the organized group BLM is simply about the phrase Black Lives Matter. When you think about it, it's actually an incredibly clever name to call a group. Disagreeing with their stated views immediately paints someone as a racist. Check out where Act Blue leans politically.

sigh...BLM means two things. One is a phrase that everybody agrees with, if you don't then you are a racist fool. Two, it is absolutely a political movement with stated goals that include EQUITY, not equality and "disrupting the nuclear family" and supporting the 1619 project. All of which are highly debatable topics.

One of those is a constitutional duty of the President. The other is pure politics from both sides. Can't compare the two.

When you are stuck in an echo chamber you assume the whole world agrees with your message and are emboldened to speak out without consequence. NDSU is learning pretty quickly that the people who pay their bills don't want that message conveyed on their dollar. I support many parts of the message that Mr. Lance and others are speaking up about, I disagree with other parts, but that doesn't matter. I don't think it's appropriate to make political statements as an NDSU student athlete and apparently I'm not alone. I would be just as adamant about not wanting them to speak about it on NDSU time if it was a message I fully supported.

Until it goes public, I'll have to keep it to myself, but it's the big names you would think of when you think of large NDSU donors from what I've heard.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate The unemployment rate is currently at roughly the same level it was in 2013 or 2014. Why didn't we need extra unemployment benefits to make it back then?

Word behind the scenes is the donor situation is much worse than has previously been posted on this board. NDSU is losing some major money over this. "Good riddance" they'll say, until NDSU has to start dropping sports and pulling scholarships of student athletes because they can't fund them. This would be a problem at every major institution in the country, you can't allow NDSU football or any other athlete to make political statements, whether you agree or disagree.

I know you were, others were legitimately agreeing that it is racist.

Isn’t it actually more racist to suggest an intelligence test is racist when the OP on this thought didn’t bring race into the discussion? Why are you assuming that minorities have lower intelligence?

You’re a real treat, carry on.

Why even comment if you’re purposely derailing a perfectly civil and easy to understand discussion? What do you get out of that? I little giggle to yourself?

You are unbelievably dense.

I’m saying If you’re ok with athletes making any political statements, you have to be ok with a player making an extreme political statement that you would disagree with. Pro-choice? Would you be ok with an athlete putting a pro life message on his uniform? Anti 2nd amendment? Would you be ok with a student athlete putting an NRA sticker on his helmet. Its a pretty easy statement to understand. Either all political statements are ok for student athletes to make or none of them are. Which is it for you?