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- #421
Love of country is NOT defined only by saluting the flag. Why would I "abandon the truth" and define love of country based on YOUR view of what it means?
You are a very poor student of real history.
Saluting the flag, or standing for the national anthem, are simple and easy ways to SHOW love of country.
By DOING the opposite the kneelers show, the opposite of love of country.
No they are not. Peaceful protesting has a long history in this country and when the country was founded, it was founded on a set of principals which all revolve around freedom of choice.
People like you have a right to disagree with how individuals protest, but that does not make them anti American, and labeling them as such as well as calling them 4 letter word expletives actually makes YOU look anti American.
I support the right to speech of Flat Earthers, but I consider them deluded fools.
I support the right to speech of Nambla, but I consider them sick monsters.
I support the right to speech of Satanists but I consider them pathetic mentally ill losers.
Supporting the right to speech of people, does not mean that you have to celebrate those who are speaking, or how they say it.
That you pretend otherwise, is utterly moronic.
I personally do not care what you choose to celebrate at all.
The subject matter here is not related to all of the others whose rights that you claim to support. The point is that the protestors are not anti American "pieces of shit" as you insist. And, salutong the flag and standing for the anthem is not the only way to express love of country. Your obsession over those gestures and their choice to not participate is what is truly moronic here.
The point is that I can support their right to speech, and I do, which is the American thing to do.
While realizing the any AMERICAN that chooses to express anti-Americanism, during the fucking NATIONAL ANTHEM, is a fucking anti-American piece of shit.
The KNEELERS are the ones who made a big deal about the "Gestures" and their choice of whether or how to respond.
Protesting peacefully, no matter how it's done is a part of "American" culture, and what America stands for.
The so called "kneelers" do not "hate America". They do not like what is "happening' in America.
Big difference.
They object to something that is currently happening in America and it makes them no less patriotic, nor does it make them "piec;es of shit".
They are taxpaying citizens who are quietly and legally protesting a wrong that needs correcting.
It does not make them "anti American".
Shutting them down and forcing them to comply with a ceremonial gesture that makess others like you comfortable is what is 'actually
"Anti American".