RE: What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee
September 27, 2017 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2017 at 6:05 pm by Jackalope.)
(September 27, 2017 at 8:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You know, I understand that the term "virtue signalling" is out of favour because there's people who use it as an excuse to dismiss ANY sort of morality that doesn't involve being a racist creature from the Id, but is there really a better term for the sort of conspicuous, but empty, display of morality that does nothing but make the participants look better, like, among the many examples to list, insisting on players in a football game standing for the national anthem?
IMO, that precisely what this is.
The thing of it is, in fetishizing a piece of cloth, they fail to grasp what that cloth represents. It sure as fuck doesn't represent mindless adherence and conformity to rituals of "patriotism" that are - in large part - tools of propaganda. That is not the American ideal I served for. This is peaceful social disobedience and that is often what is required for change for the better, and it is as American as mom and apple pie.
