Details are still emerging about the deadly literal Nazi rally that happened in Charlottesville this month. Here’s another terrifying detail to add.
During the rally, a white man pulled out a gun and fired several times at a black protester.
Police were nearby. They did nothing.
The literal Nazis in Charlottesville can claim their first victim. One person is now confirmed dead after a presumed Nazi plowed his car into a crowd of anti-fascists. Over a dozen more were injured, possibly dozens.
(The story says three people were killed, but two were police officers who died in a helicopter crash. Tragic, but not caused by Nazis, based on what I’ve seen anyway.)
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 can’t stop watching this:
