It’s a matter of numbers. The bosses always pretend they’ll just fire people for defiance, but if whole teams strike they don’t really have a way to pull that off without grievously harming their business. (And while the NCAA is itself a nonprofit, it definitely has business interests.)
It’s not fair, but solidarity and social resistance is going to involve good people taking risks when they could have just gone along instead. That’s the whole meaning of the ‘First they came for’ poem.
I’m afraid that is not how scholarships work. They are contracts. If you do not fulfill your contract, the scholarship is taken away from you.
These women either keep playing with the team or lose their scholarship and possibly lose their only way of paying for college. You expecting them to give up college or go deeper into student loan debts so that they can protest an injustice is an injustice to them. All you are suggesting is that even more people get hurt by this than are already hurt by it.
It’s a matter of numbers. The bosses always pretend they’ll just fire people for defiance, but if whole teams strike they don’t really have a way to pull that off without grievously harming their business. (And while the NCAA is itself a nonprofit, it definitely has business interests.)
It’s not fair, but solidarity and social resistance is going to involve good people taking risks when they could have just gone along instead. That’s the whole meaning of the ‘First they came for’ poem.
I’m afraid that is not how scholarships work. They are contracts. If you do not fulfill your contract, the scholarship is taken away from you.
These women either keep playing with the team or lose their scholarship and possibly lose their only way of paying for college. You expecting them to give up college or go deeper into student loan debts so that they can protest an injustice is an injustice to them. All you are suggesting is that even more people get hurt by this than are already hurt by it.