Posted on 09/15/2020 5:53:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
So, Colin Kaepernick is the current face of American professional sports.
This is the guy widely panned four years ago for his protests during the playing of the National Anthem at National Football League games. Now he’s the bee’s knees.
That’s the picture from a Washington Post poll that says a majority (56 percent) of Americans actually approve of athletes kneeling in protest when the Star-Spangled Banner is played. Only 42 percent of those polled say it’s “not appropriate.”
Pollsters also say that a majority in America now find nothing missing at all when a wedding features two grooms and no bride.
If you’re still in the minority on this, you had better get with the program before they find out who you are and demonstrate how much they tolerate your views.
Mr. Kaepernick, who has gone on to denounce America regularly as a uniquely evil, racist nation, was just ahead of the curve, according to Roger Goodell. The reflexively PC-observant NFL Commissioner said in July that he wished “we had listened earlier” to Mr. Kaepernick.
To make up for it, the NFL is giving wads of money to leftwing groups, welcoming anthem kneeling, painting social justice messages in their endzones and affixing pictures of alleged police brutality victims on helmets. If you think that will be enough to satisfy Black Lives Matter activists, you’ll probably be betting on the Jacksonville Jaguars to win the Super Bowl. So, Colin Kaepernick is the current face of American professional sports.
This is the guy widely panned four years ago for his protests during the playing of the National Anthem at National Football League games. Now he’s the bee’s knees.
That’s the picture from a Washington Post poll that says a majority (56 percent) of Americans actually approve of athletes kneeling in protest when the Star-Spangled Banner is played. Only 42 percent of those polled say it’s “not appropriate.”
Pollsters also say that a majority in America now find nothing missing at all when a wedding features two grooms and no bride.
If you’re still in the minority on this, you had better get with the program before they find out who you are and demonstrate how much they tolerate your views.
Mr. Kaepernick, who has gone on to denounce America regularly as a uniquely evil, racist nation, was just ahead of the curve, according to Roger Goodell. The reflexively PC-observant NFL Commissioner said in July that he wished “we had listened earlier” to Mr. Kaepernick.
To make up for it, the NFL is giving wads of money to leftwing groups, welcoming anthem kneeling, painting social justice messages in their endzones and affixing pictures of alleged police brutality victims on helmets. If you think that will be enough to satisfy Black Lives Matter activists, you’ll probably be betting on the Jacksonville Jaguars to win the Super Bowl.
In 2018, Seattle-based Nike, the shoe giant that pays workers a pittance in its Third World factories, starred Mr. Kaepernick in its 30th anniversary ad campaign.
Emblazoned on a black and white portrait of Mr. Kaepernick is the slogan: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Just do it.”
Well, that sounds noble. But if you’re a martyr of the Left, you can make a very good living when taking a stand that brings smiles in Hollywood, The New York Times newsroom, and other leftist redoubts. We don’t know how much Mr. Kaepernick got from Nike, but it’s estimated in the millions.
Which is only fair, since the company appears to have profited handsomely. Nike made a few billion dollars more and saw a surge in its stock price after it took an initial hit. The company shrewdly played its market, which skews heavily toward the young.
This is a generation that’s been systematically alienated from their country since they were knee-high by a toxic popular culture and Marxism-infused educational system. Some of them can hardly wait to kneel in obeisance to BLM to show how woke they are.
To be fair, it’s not just the young. Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney scored a politically correct twofer by joining a BLM street protest while wearing a COVID-19 mask. He should get some sort of award.
The indoctrination of the young still doesn’t explain the finding that even a majority (59 percent) of football fans, except a few grizzled members of the Greatest Generation, think it’s just wonderful to use NFL games or other professional sports (NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, etc.) as backdrops for leftwing activism.
I think people told the Post’s pollsters what they think they want to hear. A Gallup survey found that 40 percent of Americans now have a negative view of sports, up from 25 percent last year, so not everyone loves the kneeling. But many are afraid to share their real beliefs.
We’re living in a cancel culture. Many people believe not unreasonably that the agents of intolerance will reach down and throttle them in their own homes once their opinions are leaked. Hence the near absence of political bumper stickers and yard signs.
There is another plausible explanation for the Post’s anthem protest survey results. The question was worded this way:
“When it comes to athletes kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the United States, do you consider this to be an appropriate way or not an appropriate way to bring attention to these concerns?”
The question implies that America is systemically racist and that it’s just a matter of how – not what – you protest. The players’ actions are milquetoast compared to what’s going on nightly in Portland, Minneapolis, and other cities.
After months of looting and rioting, the spectacle of athletes kneeling at a sports event sounds nicer and less threatening than an angry mob tossing Molotov cocktails and burning down police stations. So, yeah, “appropriate?” Sure. Whatever you say.
I imagine that even in this fearful age in the Home of the Brave, they’d get a different response if they instead asked: “Do you think athletes should stand for the national anthem out of respect for the flag of the United States, which is draped over the coffins of our fallen servicemen and women?”
OK, that’s a bit loaded. How about this, for those who identify as Christian or Jewish:
“When you kneel in church or during the High Holy Days, are you praying to God or to Black Lives Matter?”
And the follow-up: “What other entities do you kneel to, and how often?”
Friendship with the world is enmity towards the Lord.
Kneeling like this is very must friendship with the world.
There is no such thing as political correctness. It should be called what it is, “restriction of the right of free speech”.
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
— Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
fairly soon we will enter a cashless society predicated on or wokeness social justice quota score. no kneeling, low score, no bank account, no money, starve or freeze.
Kneel purdy...Berrie O Bozo?
There is no such thing as political correctness. It should be called what it is, “restriction of the right of free speech”.
EXACTLY ‘Jack.
Much like National Socialists book burning and skidMark Zuckerberg’s thought burning. Let me lure you into my PSYOPS trap, children.
SUPEREVIL in America ALERT!
We got it the first time.
Well. Then come and get me. Cause the only time I kneel is when I proposed to my wife and to the Lord.
Thank you for that quotation.
Information, real information, is obviously dangerous to those who want power over this country, also.
All of the actions of the Left are designed to shut off Men’s reason, and to deny him the information to form independent thought.
Democracy is actually the enemy of Mankind, as we see how easily it can be wielded.
Gaslighting
It’s not about kneeling. It’s about renouncing allegiance to the flag and the USA.
That’s all
58% of the population should go on a mandatory field trip to one of the socialist sh@tholes and live there in squalor until they are ready to be a little more appreciative of their current situation.
I'm unwilling to support those who support America's enemies.
Men can be women, and women, men. Right? Right, comrade?
To be fair, it’s not just the young. Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney scored a politically correct twofer by joining a BLM street protest while wearing a COVID-19 mask. He should get some sort of award.
Yep, Pierre Delecto felt the need to be politically correct.
That’s the picture from a Washington Post poll that says a majority (56 percent) of Americans actually approve of athletes kneeling in protest when the Star-Spangled Banner is played. Only 42 percent of those polled say it’s “not appropriate.”
Pollsters also say that a majority in America now find nothing missing at all when a wedding features two grooms and no bride.
In the current environment, I’m sure that some will give the politically correct answer to a pollster, if indeed they talk to a pollster at all.
This is not new. I recall years ago, when we were still allowed to vote on the definition of marriage, state after state voted to define marriage, by margins larger than predicted by public opinion polls. So I think that people know what the “politically correct” answer to questions such as these are, and a certain number will give the pollster the politically correct answer.
“Wokeness and weakness”: A concoction for disaster in any society.
When it comes to the culture war, it’s been a total rout for our side, and it continues.
Colin Kaepernick needs to be knee capped.
I remember going to the polls on election day when the "no gay marriage amendment" was on the ballot. It was the largest crowd I had ever seen at my polling place. I think it got 70%. Unfortunately, Anthony Kennedy and several other black-robed tyrants over-ruled us.
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