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The NFL will play the Black national anthem before all games during the 2021 season, including the Sept. 9 kickoff game and the playoffs. as part of a 10-year, $250 million commitment to fighting racism in America, reports say.
Same with nascar.
This country is so that every man woman and child share the same ideas of freedom. Yet there are ones that are in favor of persecution, marxism, socialism, racism, despair, hatred, suffering and stealing from everyone. You think you are our siblings but you are not..
To Americans the love our flag and human value you are nothing but the filthy stench of microbs of some filthy disease that infest not only in this country but the rest of the world.To destroy love and unity. No, you are not our brothers.
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Unethical companies, playing on news sound-bites to make BILLIONS, on the backs of kids, in sweat shops, offshore, so labor laws don't apply!
They should 'put their money where there mouth is'. The question is whether they truly have principles or they just want to appear as being principled. Maybe they just calculated that people would forgive their exploitation of poor people, when they appeared to have a conscience. I'm sure they researched their target audience, identified them to be mostly young and liberal and designed their advertising campaigns with the purpose of gaining more customers than they would loose.
Real principles cost money and effort.
Sometimes their messaging might be even more devious. If they don't actually agree, they would support symbolism that provokes the most hostility from the opponents,
the people who actually agree with them. Then they use the backlash as plausible deniability, for not actually acting on their 'principles'.
the products they like from the manufacturers they like (and not if they don't).
Didn't the republicans in congress in 2018 try to make it a Federal Crime
to participate in boycott of Israel?
They tried to take away a right, which is one of the most sacred principles of capitalism.
Here is how it's spinned by Marco Rubio:
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Boycott, divestment, and sanctions is exactly what you want to do with Nike,
Coca Cola and other woke companies. That's your right as a consumer or investor.
But they say it is antisemitic when people boycott Israeli products that are made in illegal settlements on Palestinian land. They want to make that choice a crime.
You might like that now, but you know those laws could also be used against you.
Israel is on land given to the jews in 1945 after a terrible war and loss of 1000's of their people. why that is so hard to understand is beyond me .Palestine should know by now where their border is and stay on that side to stop the fighting.
There was a country there called Palestine. There also lived 32% Jews there,
but no one gave that land to the Jews. The British occupied Palestine and helped the Jews take the land for themselves, in a war from 1947 till 1949.
Now the Jews have taken almost all of that land for themselves and imprisoned
all the Palestinians in a tiny patch of land.
How would you like it if we gave your state to the Palestinians?
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Your country didn't free anyone either, it's just a piece of land, legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography.
You owe your freedom to a few wise men who decided that the people had the right to choose representation and then afterwards all representatives who honored that system. That freedom can be taken away if you allow your elected representatives to infringe on that system. The flag will not stop that.
Flags wave in the wind just as proudly above North Korea.
Unconditional love often turns into an abusive relationship.
A flag is a representation of our country,just a emoji here on the forum represents our thoughts.
Actually the ideals behind the flag are aligned with the ideals of those few wise men. However, if the Pledge of Allegiance is a statement of what the flag stands for, there are two problems with it.
'I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all'.
1) Under the 2nd amendment the people have the right of well regulated militia, in order to overthrow your government if it starts infringing on the principles of 'liberty and justice for all'. So why should you pledge 'allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands'? It's your responsibility to not blindly follow your leaders, but watch over them on the principles of 'liberty and justice for all'.
2) The United States was designed to be a secular nation, so 'one Nation under God' should not be in there. Atheists should not be required to recite this version of the pledge. If I lived in your country, I would definitely refuse to participate in the pledge, because it disrespects atheists.
As far is I can find, there is nothing in either the constitution or the amendments requiring allegiance from it's citizens to the Flag or the United States of America
or to the Republic for which it stands.
Your rights of freedom of speech and protest are in your first amendment.
It looks like those few wise men thought those rights were the most important rights.
So if those few wise men wanted the people to watch over your country on the principles of 'liberty and justice for all', protesting the flag to show your country is not following its principles of 'liberty and justice for all' is actually consistent with the principles of those few wise men.
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If she doesn't have to do anything in sports, but speak for her community she could find a less embarrassing way to the American people to do it instead of this.
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If kneeling during the national anthem is already out of the question...
The Scottish turn around and raise their kilts.
I think you Americans are a little bit sensitive about protests.
No one so far has covered your flag in shit
and no one so far has ignored the national anthem
by closing their eyes, putting their fingers in their ears
and singing "LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!".
If you want to protest,do it on your time,on your dime.Run naked in the street,do whatever. Just Not at a event representing your country.We are supposed to be sending our best to these events, not our shit stirrers.
but at least stand there when the national anthem is played. I don't think saluting
is mandatory. They are not soldiers and other countries don't do that either.
I only agree with you for Olympians and other athletes representing their country.
If athletes are representing just a team, that's just big business. That's between them and management. There are limits, but during working time people should have some freedom of expression. That's because the company does have some freedom of expression too and employees should not be expected to completely conform to that. Or do you think employees should work under a complete dictatorship?
How would you feel if you worked for Coca Cola or Nike and you were expected to express all their woke virtue signaling?
Employers paying someone to do a job, digging a ditch or kicking a football ,should have a defined dress code that tells a person in general the appearance the company wants to convey. Now coke or nike, they probably don't give a shit if the employees walked around naked with my whiteness is a sin written on their chest.
I know we were not allowed to wear political party related stuff and had to wear full length pants and steel toed shoes.
I don't agree, but at least you are consistent.
Self employed people can do as they please.
And they can go broke or make it to the top.
Depends on the image they project.
'the right': promoting or preserving hierarchy
'the left': pushing for egalitarianism
Our disagreement seems to confirm that. Do you agree?
"It means athletes will now be allowed to take the knee before play begins to highlight racial injustice, speak to the media and post online about their views, or wear clothing with a protest slogan at a press conference."
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The letter from the US official's regarding this sort of thing mentions respectfully in describing a protest. Turning your back to your nations flag,is not respectable.At least not to sane people.
A little google.
" with deference and respect.
"the butler bowed respectfully to them both"
used to express politeness to mitigate the effect of a refusal or disagreement.
"I must respectfully disagree with your claim"
With this in mind,I think she should be reprimanded or removed from the team.
the USA has freedom of expression!
I'm sure the Russian athletes are not allowed to express themselves against Putin,
by showing their support for Alexei Navalny.
Do you want to be like Russia?
However, that's not a symptomatic problem of my country.
When citizens feel systematically screwed by both parties, because corruption of their representatives makes the problems unsolvable, than eventually people will start blaming the country itself. Why do you think so many people don't vote anymore?
It's their freedom to feel about their country how ever they do. If they hate your country, it's because it didn't threat them right. Maybe they would leave, if they had anywhere else to go.
I am mostly happy to live in my country, but I'm not proud of my country.
I wouldn't even want to be proud of my country, because that will be misused.
Maybe you could ask yourself how good your country has been to you and if it deserves your pride. Aren't you a advocating for people being absolutely independent of their country. Why would you even be thankful of your country, if your country was no help at all, for even being alive? Be proud of yourself and don't fall for propaganda that demands pride of your country.
of mass destruction.
I agree with the slogan "Making America Great Again". Trump is great at messaging.
So he's acknowledging America was great in the past and is not anymore.
You also say you HOPE for a better future.
It looks like you see the same problems that I do (mostly) and you even wanted Trump to do something about it. There's one problem; young people CAN see
what is going on and WANT to do what is right, but YOU CAN'T.
Trump fixed nothing. He only made things worse. Maybe Biden will fix little things.
Young people wanted Bernie. He would have fixed a lot.
If the next administration is Republican again, they will fuck you up permanently.
Americans were doing pretty well in the sixties and seventies. With just the father providing for his family, people had prosperity. Why? Because of regulations and taxes on big companies and the rich; the wealth was being shared fairly.
Reagan changed that. He deregulated and cut taxes for big companies and the rich. Then the middle class started getting less prosperous and the rich got richer.
Every administration after Reagan made things worse for normal people.
Now you hardly have a middle class anymore and mostly fucking poor people.
How many fathers can still provide for their family?
So if cutting taxes and deregulation is good for people, why are they in such misery? Americans are the hardest working people in the world. I am doing pretty well, in my relatively socialist country, but I am not working that hard. The Finns and the Danes are doing even better. They don't have to work 40 hours a week, like me.
Finland and Denmark are more socialist than The Netherlands.
(the correct terminology is actually Social democracy)
Socialism is getting very popular in your country. That's because YOU always say healthcare for everyone, taxing the rich, free education and all those other very POPULAR POLICIES ARE SOCIALIST.
Young people hear that and want that. It's great advertisement, for a better future.
So if I'm proud of something, It's Social Democracy, the only system that actually helps people making the best of their life.
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