This is Football. It's not the military. The NFL has nothing to do with the military.
The National Anthem is not the preserve of the US military.
People in the US have the right to protest.
The US military can send its soldiers abroad to get killed so rich assholes can get richer, and people are supposed to respect the National Anthem for that? Why?
The whole narrative the right is trying to weave on this is complete bullshit. All you're doing is shouting people down in order to try and force them to agree with your lopsided view of the world.
Confederate waving red necks, supporting a flag that represents the killing of 140,000 US soldiers in the Civil War is fine. You people don't have a problem with this.
But people kneeling at a football game, which has seen the death of exactly ZERO US military personnel, is somehow bad.
No logic there and there never will be.
National Anthem.
National anthem - Wikipedia
"A
national anthem (also
state anthem,
national hymn,
national song, etc.) is generally a
patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's
government as the official national
song, or by
convention through use by the people. The majority of national anthems are
marches or
hymns in style. The countries of
Latin America,
Central Asia, and
Europe tend towards more ornate and
operatic pieces, while those in the
Middle East,
Oceania,
Africa, and the
Caribbeanuse a more simplistic
fanfare"
WORLD WIDE, a national anthem is played to symbolize the "history, traditions, and struggles of it's people".
THe AMERICA national anthem does not represent just the AMERICAN MILITARY, but the NATION AS A WHOLE.
Where someone disrespects that symbol, they are disrespecting it ALL.
Every person, every institution, everything that this nation stands for, living and dead.
The Kneelers have the right to do that.
Those they insult have a right to be pissed off at them and call them on their behavior.
When the NFL supports them in their disrespect for this nation, the NFL is taking ownership of that disrespect of America.
The NFL, has revealed itself to be, not an American pastime, but an anti-American industry that has corrupted an American past time and that has contempt for it's fans, and the great nation that has made them rich.
The FIrst Amendment says that they have a Right to express their contempt for America and Americans.
IT says nothing about America and Americans having to just take that like a bunch of stupid bitches.
