I'm not confusing them. They are co-founders, and I think Patrick is still involved with the day-to-day and doesn't have the public role of making phone calls to players, which is the opposite.
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.
That's my point, exactly. The person I was responding to was trying to separate Burke from YCP, which is unrealistic. It may very well be a problem with YCP itself that it doesn't see itself as a political organization, but that's the org that was formed. To say that Burke shouldn't represent it, is to wish it was a different organization altogether, one that either doesn't exist (because no one has formed it) or doesn't have the access and acceptance YCP has (because it's helmed by people that have no cachet with people in the NHL).
I agree that it's grating and hypocritical, but that's what privilege looks like. Just like how male politicians who have daughters are far more likely to support women's rights than male politicians who have only sons.
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From: (Anonymous)I'm not confusing them. They are co-founders, and I think Patrick is still involved with the day-to-day and doesn't have the public role of making phone calls to players, which is the opposite.
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.
That's my point, exactly. The person I was responding to was trying to separate Burke from YCP, which is unrealistic. It may very well be a problem with YCP itself that it doesn't see itself as a political organization, but that's the org that was formed. To say that Burke shouldn't represent it, is to wish it was a different organization altogether, one that either doesn't exist (because no one has formed it) or doesn't have the access and acceptance YCP has (because it's helmed by people that have no cachet with people in the NHL).
I agree that it's grating and hypocritical, but that's what privilege looks like. Just like how male politicians who have daughters are far more likely to support women's rights than male politicians who have only sons.