Free Nick Symmonds

AdheretoRules wrote:

Actually, Pelosi made her statement around April 30th and the #meetoo virus was already burning out before then. She put the final nail in the #meetoo virus. But that's splitting hairs. This was before George Floyd.

Now we have two viruses. The cancel culture that has been around for a while but was further emboldened by the second virus the BLM anarchy virus. The ironic thing is that much of this ideology came from universities that are now being cancelled.

Bro, you are so woke. You can see things no one else can!

And the two virus comment? So creative!

BLM does not support black lives wrote:

IStandWithNick wrote:

especially when BLM is much more than just supporting black lives #FreeNick

And this "much more" is what exactly? They don't even support black lives. Over 150 people shot in Chicago over the last two weekends, 28 fatally including three aged 15 or under. Most of these victims were black on black crime. Where is the outrage from BLM? Do their lives not matter?

BLEBWCM - Black Lives Ended By White Cops Matter - would be more accurate.

“ Why do we have to say that? Why do we have to say that black lives matter? Now I admit that is not the best slogan, but McDonald’s already took, “You deserve a break today.”

And I guess it’s kind of catchy because everyone else is biting it. Even the police is biting it: Blue lives matter. What, was you born a police? That is not a blue life. That’s a blue suit. If you don’t like it, take that blue suit off, find a new job, ’cause I’m going to tell you right now, if I could quit being black today, I’d be out of the game.” - DC

Ryan Hall has entered the chat:

https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/1283426106763288577?s=21

Eff nick. His true views were exposed. He canceled himself. He is a washed up has been

I, for one, Welcome our new Woke Overlords...

He isn't in jail. He is a big boy who chose a poor forum for the idea he presumably wished to express. Now he takes his lumps.

Looks like his twitter account was banned or deleted. Does anyone know what he actually typed?

There is another thread on it where we explained what happened in the 1st post.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10110940

I respect Nick Symmonds for speaking out about what he believes. I'm not into witch hunts and social media mobs. I started a thread with a different perspective though.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10112461

I figured I'd post a link here before it disappears into letsrun thread oblivion.

rojo wrote:

There is another thread on it where we explained what happened in the 1st post.

Your explanation of what happened is not what happened. You talk about cancel culture and you lock the thread and post something that agrees with YOUR OWN opinion of what Black Lives Matter is and tell people to go educate themselves, without giving anyone an opportunity to counter what you posted with another source. That my friend is communism.

Nick supported Black Lives Matter, The Organisation! His reason for changing his tune has nothing to do with the issues you cite as to why you don't support them. Nick threw a tantrum because he perceived a day to support black businesses as reverse discrimination and felt it was damaging to his company. Right or wrong, that's what he meant and that's what the issue is. You can't make sh!t up to support your racist agenda and feed it to people without giving anyone a chance to rebut. I wonder what Hoka thinks of your position on this.

Nick is a great guy wrote:

Nick does so much for the sport and always answers all his viewers questions when they message him on Instagram. He even often campaigns for LGBTQ rights all the time. He doesn’t deserve the hate at all. Can’t think of a more inclusive runner!

Hey.

You can rip BLM, blacks, Muslims, Arabs, Chinese...all you want.

You better not say shite about the LGBTQ however.

Then you're done

So here is my alternative take.

I would consider myself quite left and a white Canadian male. Almost everyone I know (men, women, black, white etc.) in Canada think 'woke' is dumb.

I feel all the bs like cancel culture, fat body positivity, trans athletes competing in female sports etc. etc. stems in part from American's need to be overly dramatic and emotional and crave attention which is exaggerated and inspired by insanely unintelligible media programming (like judge judy and realty tv and CNN/Fox opinion etc.). Both the radical left and alt-right in US are equally moronic.

And you guys sue each other constantly over the smallest stupid things that could be solved in a 4 minute conversion.

nick is a decent guy but he has demonstrated time and time again he isn't the smartest tool in the shed. His tweet was dumb.

Ironically nick is celebrated because he's a white guy who did well in track at Middle Distance. He has milked his whiteness for all it's worth and doesn't understand that people want to celebrate their blackness.

All because some people might buy a few less units of crappy Run Gum?

Read the post dumb ass. Just so it doesn’t affect HIS business or business in general.

Say goodbye to run gum. Nice attempt to save the ship, I’m sure both are Trump turds. Again Ryan, what medal have you ever won. . Nick as a black male thought you were a great ambassador yet you just showed your true colors. RIP.

Why doesn’t it affect his business. When BLM goes after businesses they lost me. Soon to be off the shelves at Target.

canadiandude wrote:

So here is my alternative take.

I would consider myself quite left and a white Canadian male. Almost everyone I know (men, women, black, white etc.) in Canada think 'woke' is dumb.

I feel all the bs like cancel culture, fat body positivity, trans athletes competing in female sports etc. etc. stems in part from American's need to be overly dramatic and emotional and crave attention which is exaggerated and inspired by insanely unintelligible media programming (like judge judy and realty tv and CNN/Fox opinion etc.). Both the radical left and alt-right in US are equally moronic.

And you guys sue each other constantly over the smallest stupid things that could be solved in a 4 minute conversion.

So you live in a bubble and have parrots who agree with your opinion. It's not really valid. honestly .

I guarantee 99% of those "supporting" nick are white guys who either live in predominantly white communities or in rural areas. Most of these people think he's some great savior when anyone who follows the sport knows that Nick is only out for himself. He's not a role model, he's not a leader, he's not anything.

Plus he post here under different names to drive traffic to his youtube channel..Kinda pathetic.

Well, yeah. If you consider Canada to be a bubble. Do you actually believe: 1 - People should be positive and enable obesity or actually treat it like the health hazard that it is and say that being fat is not good for your health? 2 - Trans athletes should be able to compete against female athletes in the UFC, Cross country etc.? 3 - Comedians should be cancelled for an off the cuff remark they said 20 years ago? etc. etc. etc. etc. I'm the one who isn't valid? Maybe you should get out of your woke bubble sir.

adflkj;laac.h wrote:

canadiandude wrote:

So here is my alternative take.

I would consider myself quite left and a white Canadian male. Almost everyone I know (men, women, black, white etc.) in Canada think 'woke' is dumb.

I feel all the bs like cancel culture, fat body positivity, trans athletes competing in female sports etc. etc. stems in part from American's need to be overly dramatic and emotional and crave attention which is exaggerated and inspired by insanely unintelligible media programming (like judge judy and realty tv and CNN/Fox opinion etc.). Both the radical left and alt-right in US are equally moronic.

And you guys sue each other constantly over the smallest stupid things that could be solved in a 4 minute conversion.

So you live in a bubble and have parrots who agree with your opinion. It's not really valid. honestly .