You're confusing Brian Burke with Patrick Burke. Patrick Burke hasn't said anything about the Kaepernick situation, but has expressed support of Megan Rapinoe's gesture of solidarity.
Brian Burke is the bathwater in this analogy, and there is a big problem with his advocacy of YCP (and this may be an extension of a greater problem with YCP itself) if he can't see that YCP's cause is (or ought to be) just as "political" as Kaepernick's.
(It's also grating and hypocritical for him to consider something that affected one of his family member's to be a just cause and appropriate to bring into sports, but when it's black lives, it's political and doesn't belong and isn't appropriate. Especially given that proportionally more POC are likely to identify as LGBTQ+. It can't just be "our gay family members" or "the good white gays who we like.")
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Brian Burke is the bathwater in this analogy, and there is a big problem with his advocacy of YCP (and this may be an extension of a greater problem with YCP itself) if he can't see that YCP's cause is (or ought to be) just as "political" as Kaepernick's.
(It's also grating and hypocritical for him to consider something that affected one of his family member's to be a just cause and appropriate to bring into sports, but when it's black lives, it's political and doesn't belong and isn't appropriate. Especially given that proportionally more POC are likely to identify as LGBTQ+. It can't just be "our gay family members" or "the good white gays who we like.")