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RE: Politically Correct : Why We Stand
America has long since stopped being the bastion of freedom. There's a problem. People have a right to protest too. It may make them an asshole for doing it, but that's their right. The more we ignore the blind nationalism, the worse the problem will become too. How many more freedoms do we have to lose before people wake up?
They have the freedom to protest all the want. They shouldn't be stupid about it. They don't understand the history of the poem and the significance. We cover that in the first part of the video.
But... you'd force them to stand? Is this Nazi Germany, and not providing the proper salute will get you arrested by the secret police? What happened to liberty? One of the key concepts of liberty is the ability to offend someone without the risk of violence in response. If you cannot offend, you are not free.
No. But, they can get fired for protesting, they are private employees.
The protest is false. People are following this false protest thinking it is one thing when it is not.
I doubt their contracts state, "You must stand during the anthem." Perhaps future contracts will however. If people don't like how much these guys get paid, they should stop watching. My main life motto applies. Stop playing or watching the part of a hero, and be one instead. :)
The contract says that they can't do anything to their uniform that would not be consistent with the message of the NFL. This is the reasoning the NFL gave that Dallas couldn't wear the shoes that supported 9/11 first responders nor the ones for the cops shot at the BLM rally.
So, if the players really wanted to own up to the protest that they supposedly follow, then put it on their uniforms and actually be brave about it. However, they will not, because they don't want to get fired.
And, yes, people are stopping watching and that is why they will stop doing this, because money talks. The NFL will only put up with it until it starts hurting their pocket books.