NFL .. take a knee... vote

[PitCarver]

I expect to see more memes posted in this thread as well.

 

[no one]

Freedom means I can do things that you don't like.

That being said, I have no issue with anyone who refuses to stand for the national anthem, if you chose not to stand for a country that oppresses. But on the same token, why do you accept that opressive country's currency?

 

[Hadron]

That being said, I have no issue with anyone who refuses to stand for the national anthem, if you chose not to stand for a country that oppresses. But on the same token, why do you accept that opressive country's currency?

In this case we are talking about natural born citizens of that country protesting about that country's treatment of its own citizens. So I don't think the last question really applies.

As for ignorant blowhards calling this "unpatriotic", Samuel Johnson's assertion that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel seems apt: there's nothing unpatriotic about such protests, and they seem more genuinely patriotic than those who are trying to use that argument to shut it down (wanting to make the country better rather than perpetuate injustice is surely true patriotism?).