Posted on 09/25/2017 11:32:54 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE!
This issue is NOT COMPLICATED, people.
First, CONDEMNING the flag that gives you your right to free speech means you CONDEMN THE RIGHT TO FREELY SPEAK!
If you CONDEMN our flag by kneeling during our National Anthem, THEN YOU ARE A TOTAL HYPOCRITE FOR PARTAKING IN THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH OUR FLAG GIVES TO YOU!
Most employees are NOT permitted to make controversial political, religious or ideological comments or display anything of that sort while at their workplace. NFL players are EMPLOYEES OF THE NFL while on the field. As such, they are not permitted to express their views by affixing patches or decals to their jerseys or their helmets. Kneeling during our national anthem is a POLITICAL/IDEOLOGICAL EXPRESSION that is NOT ALLOWED in the workplace which in this case is the NFL's football field.
The NFL bosses are afraid. They're afraid that if they were to take punitive action against a black football player, they might OFFEND THEIR BLACK TELEVISION AUDIENCE. Make no mistake, this is absolutely the reason the NFL bosses have taken no action against their mostly black traitorous employees. Kneeling during our National Anthem is NO DIFFERENT THAN AFFIXING A 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' DECAL TO A HELMET OR PATCH TO A JERSEY!
THE NFL BOSSES ARE MOST AT FAULT HERE FOR NOT ENFORCING THEIR OWN RULES. They have conspired with their own football player employees to VIOLATE THEIR OWN RULES AND REGULATIONS regarding their own personal political, religious or ideological expressions while on the field.
The NFL bosses are ALLOWING their employees to VIOLATE their own rules and regulations. It's as simple as that and this is why the NFL BOSSES ARE MOST AT FAULT for allowing this to continue.
Trump is right on this issue. The NFL should ENFORCE their own rules and regulations and TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF ANY PLAYER WHO REFUSES TO ABIDE BY THE RULES!
Talk, talk, debate, talk and more talk! THIS IS NOT A COMPLICATED ISSUE, AMERICA. This is about employees violating the rules of their workplace and their bosses ALLOWING THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT for fear of losing their black television viewing audience.
TRUMP IS RIGHT.. BOYCOTT FOOTBALL, 100%!
No I'm not.
My apologies.
“condemning the flag that gives you your right to free speech means you condemn the right to freely speak”
Based on this basic point, the kneelers are not thinking very carefully.
Must be related to the success of public schools in teaching students how to avoid thinking.
#BoycottNFLAdvertisers #BoycottTheNFL #BoycottNFLSponsors #KickThemInTheWallet
Public schools in areas where running fast while holding a ball or throwing a ball through a hoop is regarded as success?
Trump is right of course on the issue. But I don’t care if the NFL wants to burn flags before the games. As far as I’m concerned, they are dead to me just like the left.
Just boycott them and their sponsors wherever possible. NFL is hardly a necessity. I would really like to see this work than trying to convince the NFL via various augments.
Kneeling doesn’t help anyone.
The NFL should donate all of this year’s tv revenues to the NAACP.
In a show of solidarity, the tv networks should match this donation.
Money talks, bullshit kneels.
Displaying a Confederate flag can also be an “expression of speech”
Or a decal . . . or a “white nationalist” website You get the message.
And yeah, go ask Berkeley about “free speech” In fact, almost any college or U. Ask Mizzou about the effects of pandering and denial of speech or association.
I read another post on FR that said NASCAR will reap the benefits of fan defections from the NFL. I believe it, too.
“BOYCOTT FOOTBALL, 100%”
Yeah, but Dale Jr is trying to do for Nascar what Colon has done for the NFL.
But not so much when you ask who's paying for the train... the train that goes to the stadium...the stadium by the brewery... the brewery owned by the governor... the governor whose crony friends own the Bank... the collectively-owned Bank that sponsors the "pride" parade - and makes $$$ financing the construction of... everything along those tracks.
Yep.
Right Mile-High Jesuit-Orange Cube Fans?
Don’t forget baseball and basketball players are also taking a knee.
Few people read screaming rants.
The flag does not give anyone anything. The Constitution does. The flag is a symbol of so many things in America. We rally to the flag because it is the symbol to the rights, duties and privileges given to us by our Constitution. The Flag of the United States of America does not give anyone a right, privilege, duty or responsibility for it is the name of the flag we protect those rights. The flag is a symbol of all the bad and all of the good America represents just like our names is the representation of that we are, both good and bad and everything in between. The flag is the call to action and it is the last to die on the field of battle. Once more we have been called to protect her for she has stood vigilant to allow us to exercise our rights beneath her banner. While she does not gives us anything it is our duty and solemness to make sure as a representative symbol of our founding documents, the Constitution, the US Government, its people and the land from sea to shining sea, that we take it upon ourselves to make sure she is defended from all foreign and domestic enemies.
Flag doesn’t give rights. Rights are God given.
It's moderately amusing to see the left's shifting rhetoric from week to week. Had the big controversy concerned a player who was waving around a Confederate flag, they'd all be saying something very different.
I just read a self-unaware comment on another site. The poster was astonished at "conservatives" who defend the display of the Confederate flag as "free speech" but disapprove of the kneeling. Well, poster, if the two things really are functionally equivalent, then your simplistic argument would go the other way too, and those who defend the kneeling as free speech shouldn't be disapproving of other expressions thereof.
“Taking a knee” during private employment and in front of customers who are insulted thereby, is not “free speech”
It is out and out STUPID BUSINESS . . . and for which the customer is ALWAYS RIGHT
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