(October 14, 2017 at 8:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sorry, who is claiming that not standing for the pledge merits the death penalty, or that kneeling during the anthem should result in a life sentence? I understand your anger, but I think you're overstating things just a smidge.
Boru
Please, I am attacking the right's bullshit trying to treat a lagit protest as something to be condemned.
No I not overstating it, using blunt criticism and sarcasm yes.
It is fucked up when you have a politician using his office to intimidate dissenters by vilifying them by calling them "sons of bitches". Now would you like me to go through the laundry list of others he's scapegoated and vilified?
Yet his supporters would look at a CLEAR CRIME and say, "that's different", not understanding that if it were a black person, even outside the stadium that punched a white guy, that black guy would get charged more harshly. This asshole got a misdemeanor.
The PLAYERS were not committing a crime but protesting the inequality of treatment of law enforcement on black communities and OUR justice system.
The problem isn't that I am overstating it, the problem is our nation still has far too many that are ignoring our economic and justice inequality.
Fuck the damned pledge. Don't sit there and say, "Yea what this fan did was wrong" WHICH IT WAS, then excuse the vilification of our fellow citizens protesting and NOT assaulting others.
It completely is tone deaf. Black NFL players are not excusing black violence either. They are not protesting because they hate America. They are protesting, not the pledge, but the fact that inequality exists.
