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Harrison Butker is a placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was apparently chosen to give a commencement speech at a Catholic school in the area near Kansas City (of note, he went to school in Georgia). The speech was politically charged.
https://archive.ph/pKCoQ
Butker ripped President Biden and his hypocritical stance on abortion, took an unveiled shot at Pride Month, unmasked some of the lies born during the Covid crisis, addressed the "tyranny" of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and lifted women as mothers, wives and homemakers to counter the "diabolical lies" they've been fed by society.
He also discussed men's and women's roles in the household. Notably, he encouraged embracing the role of a homemaker.
This set off a firestorm in the press and online.
Several thousand signatures have been collected in multiple petitions on change.org to have him fired from his team.
https://archive.ph/vK03a
Numerous news outlets have published stories on the "controversial" speech, many misrepresenting it.
https://archive.ph/Jf6ZO
https://archive.ph/OjaMy
The NFL has decried the views expressed in the speech.
https://archive.ph/hbcyw
The current cherry on top is that the Twitter account for the city of Kansas City tweeted out the city that Butker lives in.
https://archive.ph/pB8Bd
Whether that is really a doxx is questionable (at least to me), but the point remains that a city publicly singled out a person for his views to at least distance itself from him. The twxtter account also apparently liked some approving responses before deleting the tweet and apologies-ing for it being 'shared.'
There's an argument raised in the petition story regarding this.
My counter to that is that kickers are not highly valued in the league (despite their capacity for scoring), so dropping Butker is still a real possibility.
He's an openly pro-humanity white guy, he could have nailed a 97 yard field goal and they would still cut him over this.
Great kickers win you games, so I could see it going either way.
If the institutions captured by the DEI hegemony cared about winning and making money, we wouldn't be in the current mess.
His success rate is expendable to the current ideological orthodoxy.
Fair.