It's outrageous what some on the Right find outrageous. Kneeling respectfully is now "OUTRAGEOUS"! Nothing is denigrated, nothing is soiled, nothing is destroyed and no disturbances are made.
Watch and listen as these same righteous right wingers claim others are whiners, snowflakes, pussies should any of the behavior of the Right offend others.
And what are these kneelers protesting? Police brutality. As for myself, I find police brutality to be actually outrageous. I am more offended by policemen acting with impunity than anyone quietly kneeling before a symbol of justice and freedom. But does the righteous right understand the irony? Kneeling before a symbol of justice and freedom while little justice is meted out. Being outraged by someone excerising their constitutionally protected rights. Do those righteous right wingers understand that?
I doubt it. Those right wingers are more concerned with imagery than practice. Why else would they support a huckster like Trump? They certainly could not expect results from such a charlatan, such a neophyte, such an egotist. Nope! Winning. That's what they thought they'd get.
Well, in reality, what they got was a demagogue, a flamethrower. Someone more adept at driving cultural wedge issues than uniting a badly divided nation. So long as wedge issues do what they are so aptly named as, we are screwed. We will have to pay attention to the silliness of the faux outrage while the rest of the world burns to the ground.
Watch for other wedges to be driven as Trump's corrupt administration augers into the ground. Watch for more divisiveness as we lerch toward the midterm elections no next year. Failing any real legislative accomplishments both Trump and the radical right wingers in congress will grasp at any slender reed to hang an argument from.
I agree with everything you said with one exception...
It's the owner's prerogative to make the rules for their players, and if the owner's decided to make the kneeling against their NFL rules then the player would have to follow or their contracts would be broken or there would be punishment like having to sit out a game...so far, they are sticking with allowing players.
President Trump's INTRUSION in to the matter, as our government head, was what brought about comments on first amendment rights, because Trump IS GOVERNMENT, and government is not allowed to stop anyone from their constitutional right to speak, to protest peacefully....and the Don used his bully pulpit, as President, to squash their constitutional right of the first amendment by his comments and his fueling the fire of divisiveness, saying any player should be fired, and his intentionally trying to HARM the NFL, the NFL that he feels rejected him and his football league many moons ago....he's a vindictive and vengeful man. SAD