NFL Protest

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(09-29-2017, 08:20 AM)Nately120 Wrote: This is getting all P&R forum, but I'll say the issue (as I see it) is that the American flag as a symbol has been (quite brilliantly) established over the past 30 or so years as a symbol of the neo-con post-Reagan republican party.  It is supposed to represent freedom and liberty and everyone within the country regardless of color, creed, or affiliated but in the marketing and brand recognition sense it does not.

This is one of the reasons you see the American flag waved in earnest by people who oppose freedoms with which they disagree.  If someone holds a rally for gay rights or (if we go way back) interracial marriage, or a slew of other things you'll see the right-wing opposition waving the American flag in a sense of defiance.  Take your liberal crap elsewhere because this is America.  Personally, seeing someone zealously wave a flag that stands for freedom and liberty as an argument to deny freedom and liberty seems downright blasphemous to me.  Mingling the American flag with the Nazi flag just shows how far off-base people's perception of our nation's flag has become, but people are free to be that hypocritical.  

Short version...the neo-cons have brilliantly turned our nation's flag into their own corporate logo and the backlash against them spills over to it.  It's genius marketing, but it's also causing a sacred symbol of freedom to be bastardized for biased personal gain.  

Red is Coke, blue is Pepsi, red and yellow is McDonalds and red white and blue is neo-con.  



And if people choose not to do those things and you feel they are important you should just do them yourself instead of booing loudly.  Side note, I was raised Catholic and my gf is a Methodist and I go to church with her family and they don't kneel at all.  I asked where the kneelers were the first time we were in the church, ha.  Alas, I haven't booed them for refusing to kneel for the cross.

They don't even have holy water.  Lord knows what they'll do if/when Dracula shows up.

I haven't booed anybody nor told anybody what to do.  I realize the fervor of the soapbox got the best of you.  

Tolerance is what you do when the other guy doesn't agree with you.