The Thread Where People Argue About Kneeling in the NFL (merged)

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Here’s a decent read from a serving Army Officer.

Hey, NFL, I’m an active duty Army officer and your new anthem rule leaves me with lots of questions | Fox News

While he views kneeling disrespectful he also acknowledges patriotism shouldn’t be compulsory. I agree with that sentiment.

Powerful statement in the last paragraph.

As we remember and honor our fallen military service members on Memorial Day, let’s remember we should also honor the values they fought and died to defend, including the right to speak and protest whatever we perceive as unjust.
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I'm all for protesting something you believe wrong, but I'd find it more meaningful if they did it on their own time on their own dime.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
What about something that I just found out in that video... that it was actually a veteran that suggested to Kaepernick to take a knee instead of doing some other type of protest?
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You just now found that out? Originally he was sitting. Anyway it’s still not a free speech issue.
 
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Weezer said:
I'm all for protesting something you believe wrong, but I'd find it more meaningful if they did it on their own time on their own dime.
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Why would that be more meaningful? Right now they’re risking their livelihoods to spread the message to far more people than would happen in that scenario.
 
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hog88 said:
I'm all for private business setting their own rules for employees. I despise when the government does it.
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So I'm guessing you had a problem with our President clown chiming in with his opinion?

The idiot-in-Chief just can't help himself
 
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volfanhill said:
You just now found that out? Originally he was sitting. Anyway it’s still not a free speech issue.
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Hell, the distortions are so ubiquitous that it drowns out some of the facts. Hell, you probably still have people that think Kaepernick was protesting the troops or the flag instead of police violence.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Hell, the distortions are so ubiquitous that it drowns out some of the facts. Hell, you probably still have people that think Kaepernick was protesting the troops or the flag instead of police violence.
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That’s what he claims, but he was also supporting Fidel Castro which of course made anything he had to say null and void.
 
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tumscalcium said:
That’s what he claims, but he was also supporting Fidel Castro which of course made anything he had to say null and void.
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His protest had nothing to do with Castro. The Castro stuff was a separate thing. And he didn’t say he supported Fidel. He said he admired their investment in education, which Cuba has some of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world, he admired their investment in Universal Health care, and that he admired their role in ending Apartheid in South America. He then said I do not support the oppressive things they have done.
 
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volfanhill said:
His protest had nothing to do with Castro. The Castro stuff was a separate thing. And he didn’t say he supported Fidel. He said he admired their investment in education, which Cuba has some of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world, he admired their investment in Universal Health care, and that he admired their role in ending Apartheid in South America. He then said I do not support the oppressive things they have done.
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Uh huh

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volfanhill said:
His protest had nothing to do with Castro. The Castro stuff was a separate thing. And he didn’t say he supported Fidel. He said he admired their investment in education, which Cuba has some of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world, he admired their investment in Universal Health care, and that he admired their role in ending Apartheid in South America. He then said I do not support the oppressive things they have done.
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Uh huh. Let’s just sweep that oppressive stuff under the rug. Lmao

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114VOL said:
So I'm guessing you had a problem with our President clown chiming in with his opinion?

The idiot-in-Chief just can't help himself
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I don’t have a problem with a politician voicing his opinion, did you when Obama did it numerous times?
 
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