# Skrooh you, Nike! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396 "2016-02-18T00:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/41 "2016-02-18T08:21:46Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Irrelevant then. But swerving back to the topic, Nike made a pure business decision. They sell intangibles as much as they do shoes. Dropping Pacquiao doesn’t make them a-holes. But screw them for their supposed beliefs. Nike is a corporate entity and made a business decision, I doubt as a company they have any strict values other than make money and pay themselves and their shareholders. If those in charge of the business actually made it as an uncalculated purely ethical decision then good for them, but I’m sure there’s plenty of anti-gay morons running around the company as well. It seems like everywhere you go, you’ll find people who are pretty far up their own asses trying to act like supreme beings when in fact they are simply vain supremacists who have a lot to learn about humanity and are lagging behind the rest of the class as foolish dopes usually do, thinking they’re better than everyone else. The truth is, they’re simply making everyone else look better by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/42 "2016-02-18T08:23:36Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > That’s why he asked. No harm done then? Nah, we’re cool. I mean, you’re an idiot, but we’re cool. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/43 "2016-02-18T08:33:43Z")
Oh I have similar thoughts about what those Nike people are thinking. After all, Pacquiao is now practically a has been. And like all boxers who made it big, their eventual defeat will likely be in the hands of the tax man. But I think he’ll end up better than Tyson or Luis. It’s the hipocrisy of the whole thing that’s galling. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/44 "2016-02-18T08:42:27Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > It’s the hipocrisy of the whole thing that’s galling. Make your case. What are they doing which is outrageously hypocritical? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/45 "2016-02-18T08:48:25Z")
What is so wrong with a politician who speaks his mind, consistent with his core beliefs (albeit recently adopted)? And if he’s bad for a business, for whatever reason, what do you as a business gain by making a strong signalling move, when corporate relations can be executed in a quiet, even imperceptible manner? Does Nike care that much for gays and wish to utterly destroy anti-gays? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/46 "2016-02-18T09:19:59Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > What is so wrong with a politician who speaks his mind, consistent with his core beliefs Do you know what \*other \*politician spoke his mind, consistent with his core beliefs? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/47 "2016-02-18T09:21:43Z")
Hitler and ML King? Hitler was more consistent, though. Oh wait. Vladimir Zhirinovsky. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/48 "2016-02-18T09:22:53Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > What is so wrong with a politician who speaks his mind, consistent with his core beliefs (albeit recently adopted)? And if he’s bad for a business, for whatever reason, what do you as a business gain by making a strong signalling move, when corporate relations can be executed in a quiet, even imperceptible manner? Does Nike care that much for gays and wish to utterly destroy anti-gays? - A: So that Pacquiao is a major dickhead right? B: Yeah, and fuck Nike for sponsoring him! A: I think maybe they dropped him? B: Well I didn’t hear anything! A: Huh. I can’t find any stories in the news about it either. Fuck them then!\* You sir, are as dumb as a sack of bricks. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/49 "2016-02-18T09:26:24Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > (Actually I’d love to fuck Oscar Pistorius. But that’s for another thread.) You like 'em murderously crazy, don’t you? :insert appropriate smiley here: ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/50 "2016-02-18T09:28:41Z")
> [@naita](#): > > - > > A: So that Pacquiao is a major dickhead right? > > B: Yeah, and fuck Nike for sponsoring him! > > A: I think maybe they dropped him? > > B: Well I didn’t hear anything! > > A: Huh. I can’t find any stories in the news about it either. Fuck them then!\* > > You sir, are as dumb as a sack of bricks. You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/51 "2016-02-18T10:17:41Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > What is so wrong with a politician who speaks his mind, consistent with his core beliefs (albeit recently adopted)? His core beliefs are shitty. In 2015 63.6% of Nike’s revenue was generated in [North America + Western Europe](http://marketrealist.com/2015/09/overseas-markets-may-put-spanner-nike-revenue-machine/) where majorities of the populaces as of that year now seem to agree that such beliefs are shitty. Therefore smart company dumps stupidly outspoken politician with shitty core beliefs in order to shield their largest sources of revenue. Seems pretty simple to me. Not to mention logical. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/52 "2016-02-18T10:59:10Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. You killed them all off with your karate stare. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/53 "2016-02-18T11:37:13Z")
I didn’t have **the\_diego** down as a particularly shitty poster until fairly recently. An amusing degree of unjustified overconfidence when it came to answering geology questions in GQ, but didn’t know he was outright _crazy_ until the seatstabbing. Apparently I also missed some homophobic posts, somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/54 "2016-02-18T13:38:14Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/55 "2016-02-18T13:50:25Z")
I too fail to see the hypocrisy here. A business realized that they had a pr problem, so they dumped the guy. Good for Nike. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/56 "2016-02-18T14:06:14Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > … And supporting just one side of the argument is as brilliant as inventing the title “Greatest basketball player of all time.” … Michael Jordan. > [@the\_diego](#): > > … But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. I’ll bet you could spawn some, though. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/57 "2016-02-18T14:36:14Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I didn’t have **the\_diego** down as a particularly shitty poster until fairly recently. An amusing degree of unjustified overconfidence when it came to answering geology questions in GQ, but didn’t know he was outright _crazy_ until the seatstabbing. Apparently I also missed some homophobic posts, somewhere? Well, you better catch up. There’s a quiz later. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/58 "2016-02-18T14:42:19Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. Yes, you did. They just seemed smart in comparison to you. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/59 "2016-02-18T14:59:38Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. > [@D\_Odds](#): > > Yes, you did. They just seemed smart in comparison to you. Not necessarily, but the old “If you can’t spot who’s the oblivious asshole of your group, it’s you.” certainly seems to apply. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396/60 "2016-02-18T15:02:10Z")
> [@naita](#): > > - > > A: So that Pacquiao is a major dickhead right? > > B: Yeah, and fuck Nike for sponsoring him! > > A: I think maybe they dropped him? > > B: Well I didn’t hear anything! > > A: Huh. I can’t find any stories in the news about it either. Fuck them then!\* > > You sir, are as dumb as a sack of bricks. > [@the\_diego](#): > > You’re very patient with someone so dumb. I’m not like you. But then I didn’t grow up with idiots. Did the very simple lesson penetrate though? I do have patience enough to try a different approach to explaining why Nike would stop endorsing toxic sludge and do so publicly if this one bounced off your apparently heavy reason deflection shields. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skrooh-you-nike/746396.md?page=4)