You know what fascists hate? Statistics. Statistics that show things like FiveThirtyEight keeps showing: Colin Kaepernick should not be unemployed.
That short article follows an earlier, but more detailed, breakdown that FiveThirtyEight did back in March:
Could it be that Kaepernick just isn’t good enough, or that he plays a style that makes him difficult to accommodate?
The evidence suggests that those factors alone don’t explain Kaepernick’s unemployment. Kaepernick’s current employment status looks less like a natural result of the supposed NFL meritocracy and more like something unusual is going on (even by the standards of an unusually complex situation). His play is good enough to have attracted interest from teams by now. That it hasn’t suggests that he’s being punished on at least some level for his political outspokenness.
And that was written in March. It’s August and he’s still unemployed? I think it’s obvious by now there’s only one reason why a veteran Super Bowl QB is unsigned by now…