I prefer the NFL anthem controversy because it's much more interesting. And whatever you have to say about Trump, you have to admit he has a knack for making things interesting.ochotona wrote:Quick hijack it. Trump, Hilary, Obama, gender studies, climate change, black lives matter
Personally, I couldn't care less whether or not the players stand, kneel, or whatever during the national anthem as this doesn't offend me at all. What amazes me is how the NFL owners and the commissioner choose to coddle these multi-million dollar paid employees who are obviously doing damage to the league's image in the public eye. If any of us regular folks had ever done anything like that to the companies we worked for I think we all know we would have been terminated and disavowed as quickly as possible. And the stupidity of biting the hand that feeds you in the name of your social justice warrior cause and poking your finger in everyone else's eye when you know it isn't going to hurt you at all, strikes me as utterly narcissistic.
And that's how I really feel about it. Not that anyone cares, but I couldn't resist displaying my own narcissism by hijacking an otherwise pointless thread.
Simonjester wrote: is it strange that my issue with disrespecting the flag/anthem is not with the act itself but with the use of it? the act itself certainly falls in the freedom of speech category (doing so as an employee being another matter and one where freedom is not so guaranteed) my issue with it is that the flag/anthem are powerful symbols and in my mind disrespecting them should somehow be reserved for only the most dire and earth shattering of causes.. to see this being done for each and every weak-sauce cause dejure... just sort of pisses me off... it steals the power from the symbolism of doing so, and if we should ever need to make a strong statement against some truly horrible national travesty, well if you disrespect the flag/anthem now you are just lumped in with the thousands of overreacting over-dramatizing morons activists who have come before you...