Just because you have the right to your opinion doesn’t mean you should always share them with the world.

Apparently David Booth isn’t about that life.

Instead, the former NHL forward decided late Wednesday night to send the following tweet to his almost 60,000 Twitter followers:

“Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything” does this mean you can fly a plane into a building? How can so many people @Nike be this ignorant as to the logical fallacy this entails. This is absolute absurd. I really don’t understand. Why would u support this? — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





David, no! Put the phone down. Log off.

Although Booth isn’t currently employed by an NHL team — he suited up in 28 games for the Red Wings last season — there’s no good reason to hit send on such an asinine and misguided take.

Even if you have an issue with Nike’s innocuous and inspiring slogan, making the galactic leap to suggesting, logically, it condones flying a plane into a building is next-level crazy. Sure, maybe if you strip this slogan of all context and twist it to fit your toxic world view, it could mean anything you want. But that’s not what this is. It’s a simple ad supporting an athlete who quietly, and legally, exercised his right to protest the unchecked murders of innocent minorities at the hands of the police who has since been blackballed by the NFL and publicly made out to be an anti-American enemy by the President of the United States and his legion of followers.

But Booth, a devout Christian, apparently can’t seem to grasp why anyone would be against murdering innocent civilians and doubled down with the following tweet, asking what Kaepernick actually sacrificed.

The only responses to my last tweet were just name calling and bullying. The weaker the point the louder you have to shout. Not one person tried to reason against it. I am trying to understand the reasoning behind this slogan. What did CK sacrifice? Money? Is that everything? — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





Money isn’t everything, but sacrificing an athletic career in your prime that you worked your entire life to achieve, something you would think Booth could understand, is not nothing. Not to mention the constant death threats he’s surely been getting on the daily for the last two years.

Booth then spent the rest of the evening going back and forth with the folks all up in his mentions, offering up well-thought out counter-arguments like this.

It’s like telling your son they can become a girl even if there a boy. It’s that messed up — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





And clearly demonstrating his grasp on the subject with predictably inane comments like this:

Yea it’s crazy how many athletes would disrespect our national anthem. — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





Sifting through the mentions, it turns out that Booth definitely, 100 percent doesn’t have a problem with Kaepernick, he just didn’t like the subjective phrasing of the ad. Booth addressed this point on TSN’s Landsberg in the Morning on Thursday, this time using the example of a bullied kid bringing a gun to shoot up his school to hammer home the point that “words have meaning.”

Ok. That’s fair. Then they should’ve said sacrifice your career for what you believe in. That would make complete sense and I’d be on board with that. — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





It’s clear Booth’s post-hockey life won’t include a career in marketing, but the 33-year-old might want to scrub this bad brain-stream from the Internet before he jumps back into the job market.

Good night everyone. Thanks for the kind tweets. Let’s keep America great. #MAGA — David Booth (@D_Booth7) September 6, 2018





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