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I'm not sure what Anthem you're talking about. Our anthem is about the flag, not the troops. At best you can argue that kneeling shows lack of respect for the flag. Voting for a man who insulted POWs shows lack of respect for the troops.
What protest method used by someone expressing an idea you disagree with have you agreed with in the last ten years?
Well, that's like asking when it's ok for women to speak for themselves. According to some it's sometime after they get done making them a sandwich. I wonder if these are the same people upset with the kneeling. Me thinks so.
You'll have to excuse him. He just gets lost in the moment. Of course it's one of many moments he gets lost in each day, but its the most important one.
Okay. I started a thread for this, but I can ask it here. What method of protest is perfectly acceptable for people expressing ideas you disagree with?
I am going to stop watching NFL games. I'll read the box scores for FF reasons and that's it and if it continues, I'll quit FF.
So answer the question I posed earlier - the Cowboys were booed in Arizona for kneeling before the anthem. Who were they disrespecting and why would they be booed for kneeling before the anthem?
From what I've gathered here methods of protest that are acceptable are ones that go unnoticed and do not affect us in any way.
And if they squashed the efforts another segment of the fanbase would be offended too. You're not capable of realizing this?
That's the thing that is really inexplicable. Most NFL games don't even show the anthem so people are being outraged by something they don't even see. It's similar to people protesting a movie they never watched because they heard it's something they should get upset about. Same exact thing here.
peaceful, assembled protest that doesn't restrict access to or destroy public and private property.
These players are locking arms or taking a knee in a stadium. It doesn't get more peaceful, less restrictive of access or less destructive of property than what they're doing. I'm going to need some specifics on this one from the person I'm asking who disagrees with this method.
You're right.
The only thing being destroyed that seems to upset so many people is the status quo. It's the same line of thinking that we get after a mass shooting, when any attempt to talk about gun laws is met with the usual "THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO POLITICIZE THIS!" screeds.
Don't forget all the other sports. NBA, MLB, NHL, college football, - all of them have players who have engaged in some form of protest (usually kneeling) during the anthem. You'll need to drop those too. I couldn't find any in college basketball so you're safe there for now, but I suspect that won't last long.
hmmmmm This has me thinking. @Joe Bryant - any way we could get the national anthem played here before the beginning of each posting day?
I dream of a day where the US will be more like the Hunger Games. Each day would could stand out in a giant assembly area and watch a giant screen with Trump on it while the anthem plays. Hopefully we will be surrounded by military with weapons to make sure we all stand and sing along too. Sounds beautiful.
Hey, show some respect for the military service he pretended while getting paid millions of dollars in movies.
I assume he's referring to his time as a fake cop, facing very real lawsuits over sex trafficking and sexual assault.
If you are a citizen of North Korea, are you supposed to love your country too? Love of country is supposed to be earned, not followed blindly. According to you, it doesn't matter what the government is doing, you are supposed to be "patriotic". Honestly, what this really tells me is that you currently see nothing wrong with the current state of the U.S., and those uppity black NFL players should shut up and know their role.
Think of poor atheists like me! Even my organized boycott of teams that employed Tim Tebow didn't work. WHERE IS MY SAFE SPACE!!!!!
no offence catman but the fact that the methods have got you all hot and bothered pretty much tell me that they are one hell of a tactic wildly successful and that the guys on the end of it would be crazy to stop employing it because the truth is look at all the words you have typed about it they are clearly in your head honest and not trying to be a jerk or whatever but it is clearly just working take that to the bank brocato
i am literally laughing so loud that the other guys around here came in to watch it bam brohan take that to the bank
