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RE: Nike Rolls Out Controversial Colin Kaepernick Ad (Culture Hacking) - What's Your Thoughts?
That's actually a great point and I didn'teven really think about that. At some points entire teams had jumped on board but really he's been singled out and been the most affected and kind of blackballed because of it
The weird thing to me is that I never really saw any YouTube videos or interviews of him explaining more about what he was trying to say with the whole thing and that he wasn't disrespecting the military, police officers, firefighters....etc.
It might have been out there but I never saw it.
I got in a conversation when one chick casually about it and she got real amped up about how he was disrespecting people in the military which I never saw it that way at all.
Overtime the way I view most members in the military changed some and if I say this to some people they would get offended but in general in a lot of ways I always kind of looked at it this way.
But in a lot of ways I looked at it as a career choice if someone wasn't drafted into it. Like I have a friend at home who didn't have a lot of options as far as college was concerned but he was a really smart guy and when he was 19 he decided to go into the Army. He scored really well on the testing and he is athletic so he really excelled and made the Army a great career for him and his rank is pretty high for enlisted. Like E8 or E9 I believe. I'm not really sure. But regardless he is going to be able to retire after 20 years and have another career and ultimately it turned out to be a good decision for him since he wasn't infantry or anything like that.
So when I talk to people in the military I always ask what their specialty is and ask them questions because I'm curious and end up saying "That's cool bro" I'm respectful about the situation but I guess what I'm saying is I don't automatically bow down and start declaring people a hero because they signed up for the Military.
I guess a hero to me is someone who is walking by and suddenly sees a burning house and runs in there and saves a kid and the family hamster but it wasn't their occupation and they could have easily just ran away from the situation.
I'm not trying to make light of military service or anything but if a random person tackles a crazy person shooting people with an assault rifle, or a person whips out a pocket knife and stabs a great white shark in the eye who is attacking a fellow surfer, or some guy who puts a grizzly bear into a headlock to save a toddler from getting eaten. I feel like all those people are in a different category because it wasn't their occupation and they aren't getting paid. They just jump into action out of nowhere.
I wanted to be in the military not because I thought people would look at me as a hero or that I was some huge patriot protecting everyone. I just wanted to fly fighter jets. Not to shoot at anyone but just to fly really fucking fast.