(06-05-2020, 10:37 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(06-05-2020, 09:40 PM)EricC85 Wrote: No it’s displays of national identity for the national football league. While you might enjoy it in Ireland its an American sport that has long celebrated American culture that’s not political. Unless your politics are that American culture shouldn’t be celebrated or recognized I guess?

National identity displays are inherently political. Players protesting is also expressing their national identity.. You just don't like what they are saying

It was good to see that Brees finally let up on the dishonest notion that players taking a knee ever had anything whatsoever to do with respect for soldiers and veterans or that attempting to force people to salute a symbol of the country is in any way consistent with the notion of a truly free country.

If anything the systematic repression of people he refused to acknowledge was the true disrespect to people that died for the rights of people in the USA to have life liberty and pursuit of happiness.

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