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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Likeability is everything if you are trying to get people to follow your cause. The reason he failed is because he did not come off as a genuine or likeable person.
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You didn’t like him, which is great, but I don’t think the people that can’t hear a message because of “socks” are really the type of people who have any interest in listening in the first place. Don’t pretend you care/cared in the first place if you think the socks were more important. You know that’s silly.
You can spin the narrative however you want, but the backlash against Kaepernick started before people started getting upset over his clothing choices. And the idea that he just did it because he lost his starting job is pretty ridiculous. He did took a stand against something that cost him his career. And oh, look at that, it appears he was right!
He didn’t fail, he succeeded in furthering the conversation. The backlash isn’t because he wasn’t “likeable,” that’s ridiculous and you know it. The backlash was because America doesn’t take kindly to being show it has faults.