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Belichick called him "Stid". That's all I needed to know. They think he can be the guy.
Patriots draft pick Justin Rohrwasser says he’ll cover controversial tattoo linked to anti-government group - The Boston Globe
The Patriots used their first pick on Day 3 of the NFL Draft to pick up a new kicker, Justin Rohrwasser from Marshall.
Rohrwasser began his career at Rhode Island before transferring to play for the Thundering Herd.
Shortly after the Patriots selected Rohrwasser, promotional photos from his time at Marshall began circulating on social media. Featured prominently on Rohrwasser’s arm is a tattoo that is known as a symbol for the Three Percenters, a group recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “anti-government” organization.
Rohrwasser acknowledged the tattoo during a conference call with Patriots media members on Saturday. Here’s what he said:
Question: One of your tattoos matches a group called the Three Percenters. What’s the story there?
Rohrwasser’s response: “I got that tattoo when I was a teenager and I have a lot of family in the military. I thought it stood for a military support symbol at the time. Obviously, it’s evolved into something that I do not want to represent. When I look back on it, I should have done way more research before I put any mark or symbol like that on my body, and it’s not something I ever want to represent. It will be covered.”
I hate to dive into the political and racial quagmire of all this, but the 3 percenters aren't even a white supremacist group. Jemele Hill doesn't even know the kid and she used her platform to put him on full blast. That really pisses me off.
I dont know anything about the subject. I posted the Globe piece because to me it appears that the kid is reacting appropriately.
N o o d l e s
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Welcome to 2020. Accusing someone of being racist used to be serious. Now you can do it without ever meeting someone and with no repercussions.
BruinsFanSince94
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You could have just stopped at "huge piece of shit."
The responses to her tweet are just as vile and disugsting
I think people can tell where I lean by the covid thread- Jemele Hill calling this kid a white supremacist because he has a guns rights/anti-gov tattoo and likes trump is slanderous
is he dumb for tattooing himself with sewing needles and for getting a 3% tattoo? Yeah. But he’s also a kid that says he’s going to cover it up. I’m glad Jemele was a perfect 22 year old.
like in Jemele’s thread they’re criticizing him for liking a Jocko Willink book and lumping him in with Candace Owens. What on earth???
What a jackass Hill is. Honestly. This kind of infuriated me.
is he dumb for tattooing himself with sewing needles and for getting a 3% tattoo? Yeah. But he’s also a kid that says he’s going to cover it up. I’m glad Jemele was a perfect 22 year old.
like in Jemele’s thread they’re criticizing him for liking a Jocko Willink book and lumping him in with Candace Owens. What on earth???
What a jackass Hill is. Honestly. This kind of infuriated me.
Def agree with you Wally... i posted it too in the last thread. Unless people that actually know the kid and have intimate knowledge of him call him out, this is all just media inflamed bullshit.
Therick67
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I think even questioning her makes you a racist. She’s a know it all of the highest degree...
He looks like he might be a small LB ?
This will be one of BB's finest picks, kid has a great leg and is awesome in the clutch.
Who cares about his tattoos?
The kid has not even stepped on the practice field yet and people are trying to find faults with him.
Move onto something else more constructive.
Especially when the kids already acknowledged it, owned it, said he isn’t proud of it and said he’s covering it up.
These people want to blackball him from the league and call him a white supremacist over a tattoo. The SPLC doesn’t even consider the 3%ers a hate group, just anti-government. We had a goalie like that a decade ago iirc.
This is the part of cancel culture I hate. Some people do genuinely deserve to be ruined, this kid currently does not deserve that. Dude had the best day of his life spoiled and had to go private on Twitter because a couple morons with a platform wanted to slander him
Therick67
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It’s ok to slander someone without an ounce of evidence, pathetic.
Hnidy Hnight
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because it’s 2020 and the president has polarized people to the point where the country is irreparably damaged
Are there a bigger group of losers on the planet than the people who go back through thousands of a kids tweets on draft day to try and expose them for what they tweeted when they were 16? Probably not
Therick67
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so the perfect people can look good
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N o o d l e s
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Think they’ll be competitive. More looking forward to 2021 after hopefully a more productive free agency period and another draft.
N o o d l e s
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If you wanna defend Jemele Hill, maybe she should have tweeted something like “Patriots rookie appears to have tattoos linked to white supremacy”. She called someone she’s never met a white supremacist.
Troublesome 85
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