I definitely agree with your feelings on this guy 100%, but it's mischaracterizing things a bit saying that he's out to repress anyone's rights. He believes the world should live in his little closed-minded box, sure, but I didn't hear any suggestions or means of enforcing such a thing. But his most vocal opponents ARE out to repress HIS rights. Lots of chatter out there (probably mostly by the loudest idiots on the other side) about how he should be fired, deplatformed, canceled, and so on.
They want to change the world by repressing peoples' rights when they aren't living in alignment with their world views. There is definitely an attack on free speech happening around the world today, and some of that has resulted in actual policy in certain places.
I really hate what Butker said, but I hate even the suggestion of curtailing free speech far, far more.
I think those stats are light. If he starts a full season, I think he tops 4K yards, and I think KK's offense and development will have him embracing the instincts that led to very few turnovers for him in the SEC. I think the only way he'd be sheltered throwing is if the running game really takes off, but even then they'd want balance, and to leverage the success of the running game by taking advantage of teams stacking the box to prevent it.
Anyway, I'm more hopeful. If he's the starter for 17 games, I think he could hit 4,000 yards with 20 TDs and 10 picks. I liked the projection of about 600 running yards and 5 TDs, as I don't want him running too much or in high-contact situations (let the RBs handle the goal line, don't push his tush).
Maybe everybody here, but not everybody everybody.
This is the exact kind of speech very large and active groups of people are looking to silence, and Butker is an extreme example. There are some conservative speakers getting run off campuses and similar venues that are nowhere near as extreme or provocative as Butker was. That's troubling. Diversity of thought on college campuses should be seen as crucially important, not something that needs to be stopped.
And the folks out there that believe that the people who disagree with them should be silenced and canceled isn't confined to college campuses either. And it's mind-boggling to me that it's the left that's behind the majority of it. The religious right used to have the market cornered on that idiocy, and now they're outnumbered on the left. Yikes, y'know?
That's optimistic. A lot of people are looking at the policy that has emerged in other countries restricting free speech as a good thing. They want that here. Granted, it appears that most of them are in the "pretty young and very idealistic" phases of their development, but with that rhetoric being as widespread as it is today, they might not be disabused of those notions by the time their generation is really taking over.
I hope you're right. Maybe it's just a fad that will fade once people see that it goes too far, but there are times where it feels like it's picking up steam, not subsiding, in my opinion.
Exactly, and this is why I'm for free speech the way it is. No yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater and all that, but I like that dumb and hateful people are free to speak their minds. Partly because that's what free speech is, but mostly because it helps us figure out who they are. I want to know exactly who the evil pricks in the world are, and letting them publicly self-identify makes it easy.
If someone you strongly disagree with comes to your town or campus to give a speech, you shouldn't be picketing outside. You should be inside, listening and taking notes, so you can learn what they actually believe, what they actually advocate for, and how they arrived at their conclusions. If you do that, most of the time you'll find a human being that's not all that different from you that just sees the world in a different way because their life experiences to date led them down a different road.
And yeah, there'll be a bunch of times where you're just right, and they ARE the buffoons you thought they were, but at least you heard them out and can now refute their ideas with better ones instead of the constant strawman nonsense that goes on now. Because no, not everyone that disagrees with you is a Nazi or "worse than Hitler." That's almost never true, and you saying the hyperbolic thing instead of the nuanced and true thing makes you look like the idiot instead.
But yeah, JD will absolutely better than what that guy said, and other on-topic, football-related insights.