Nike doubles down on controversial Just Do It ads - 1st Colin Kaepernick, now they've released one featuring Caster Semenya

Im ok with nike ads..

as long as their ads dont support LGBT.

rojo wrote:

The ad says she was "Born to do it." Well if someone is born a paraplegic, they are born to compete wheelchair category of athletics. However, we don't let them race able-bodied runners because they would win every major marathon in the world. It's an unfair advantage to have wheels in a marathon. The same thing is true in terms of testosterone in women's athletics.

Paraplegics are not born with a wheelchair...

Is anyone else buying Nike gear and burning it? I've bought like 10 pegs and burned them all (kept one for my marathon in December though).

jamin wrote:

Is anyone else buying Nike gear and burning it? I've bought like 10 pegs and burned them all (kept one for my marathon in December though).

Have you really?

Are you serious? wrote:

I didn’t realise you have had access to Caster’s medical records?

the IAAF subjected her to every humiliating test possible - and their doctors confirmed she is female.

She was born that way, with male organs - which the IAAF confirmed, not that Semenya is female, but the opposite.

Truth which people are not allowed to say on this web site????

Crazy, stupid, ridiculous, a lie, and disrespectful to all real women.

More fake news ~ wrote:

She was born that way, with male organs - which the IAAF confirmed, not that Semenya is female, but the opposite.

Truth which people are not allowed to say on this web site????

IAAF never made any statement indicating this. I would be very interested in seeing your source. Certainly someone who is complaining about "fake news" has a "real source", right?

I like no I love that Nike is pissing off narrow-minded fools.

That's Marketing 101. For Ivy Leagues the Brojos sure do lack basic common sense.

niketrollshard wrote:

Seems weird that Nike would go so hard into the culture wars. Long way from MJ saying something like "Republicans buy sneakers, also".

Um, they don't by Nike sneakers.

Trolling for Phish wrote:

I like no I love that Nike is pissing off narrow-minded fools.

I'm sure all the women that Semenya destroyed are loving it too.

Nike triggering Trumptard snowflakes. i love it

I'm triggered that you said "tardd" That's a cruel and insensitive term. I thought we buried that term. Libs have no shame.

Hmm intersting.

I don't consider these two issues even in the same ball park so I don't think you can compare.

I fully support the Kaepernick add, though I do recognize it as a money grab.... at the end of the day it is all about money for NIKE. They are smart, it is clear how history will view Kaepernick and the whole situation. Nike chose the correct side in this argument and history will be on the side of Kaepernick. Anyone who says otherwise will be wrong... just like every other civil rights moment.

Caster Semenya? Hmmm NO. I feel it is wrong for them to even get involved in this discussion since they are a MAJOR player in the sport. Now they are essentially spreading propaganda, the majority of people either think Caster has a penis, or view it as a discrimination against trans people and fail to fully grasp the massive advantage she has over female athletes. I feel the entire situation is a massive contradiction, allowing her to compete is pissing all over Women's rights.

Playing it Safe wrote:

jamin wrote:

Is anyone else buying Nike gear and burning it? I've bought like 10 pegs and burned them all (kept one for my marathon in December though).

Have you really?

yes. However I'm not sure if I can keep doing it because my kitchen is starting to smell like smoke and burned rubber.

Trumpsters need to start supporting the brands they believe in and that fits their groupthink.

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Karaoke Kid wrote:

rojo wrote:

The ad says she was "Born to do it." Well if someone is born a paraplegic, they are born to compete wheelchair category of athletics. However, we don't let them race able-bodied runners because they would win every major marathon in the world. It's an unfair advantage to have wheels in a marathon. The same thing is true in terms of testosterone in women's athletics.

Paraplegics are not born with a wheelchair...

Are you saying that there are aspects to that comparison that are not the same? Like it's some sort of analogy?

Sport implies that the outcome is uncertain. When Semenya races, the outcome is expected and it's ruining womens' middle distance on the world stage.

So you have a link to evidence that shows she is XX karyotype?

And yet you criticize others for making assertions without having access to her medical records.

Silly repubs wrote:

celery wrote:

Here we go again, again. Not all of us are brainwashed into thinking there is inherent racism in US society in 2018. As for our sordid past, we didn't stat slavery, we ended it (when the republican party came into existence to take slaves away from democrats). Stop buying into the narrative of the Democrat propaganda.

Lol the Repubs didn’t end slavery. The Repubs a century and a half ago did. Those ones are dead and buried and turned to dust, as are their children and their children’s children.

And the people who owned slaves are dead and buried and turned to dust, as are their children and their children's children. So can we stop talking about slavery and the inherent racism of the USA already? If you wanna talk about Jim Crow laws, the democrats who pushed those are also dead and buried. So stfu about racism already. This issue was on its death bed until Barak (my son would have looked like Trayvon) Obama did everything he could to revive it.