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A Culture that Celebrates Fake Heroes While Crucifying Real Ones Cannot Endure
American Thinker ^ | 25 Oct, 2021 | William Sullivan

Posted on 10/25/2021 3:39:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We shouldn’t be surprised that the same influences denigrating our real heroes are those elevating the voice and visage of Colin Kaepernick.

“Believe in something,” Nike told consumers in 2018, “even it means sacrificing everything.” The advertisement features former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick giving a stoic stare to those social justice warriors being spurred to buy the company’s product.

In what may be the swiftest example of the Mandela Effect taking hold on the American cultural psyche, many Americans believe that Colin Kaepernick was headlong into a promising NFL future when he boldly decided to take a knee during the National Anthem in order to protest police brutality, and for this crime against the political and social status quo, he was ostracized by the racist NFL and its fans.

The broad belief in this myth is much more pernicious and destructive, however, than our innocently misremembering that the Monopoly man wears a monocle.

And it is most certainly a myth. The reality is that on August 26, 2016, Kaepernick decided to sit on the bench during the Anthem, not kneel. Nothing ostentatious, and there was something almost childish about it, in fact. Perhaps he didn’t like being benched for Blaine Gabbert, who was, according to Mike Foss at USA Today, possibly “the worst quarterback employed by the NFL” at the time, before he goes on to explain that he might have actually been the second-worst quarterback -- behind only the horrendously bad Kaepernick in 2015.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 10/25/2021 3:39:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I spell his first name Colon. Does anybody mind? I didn’t stink so.


2 posted on 10/25/2021 3:39:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The goal of the Woke is not to create a culture, but to destroy one.

A totalitarian government cannot permit an independent culture that would compete with it. A totalitarian government will create a culture around its own leaders.

3 posted on 10/25/2021 4:19:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Any mention of George Floyd? You know the guy (the prince of fentanyl) who now has statues of his likeness spotted in certain communities around the country.


4 posted on 10/25/2021 4:22:41 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: MtnClimber

Fact, the police kill more men than women BY FAR.. thats because more men commit crimes? No, its because the cops are sexist......


5 posted on 10/25/2021 5:12:34 AM PDT by Ikeon (Hate your life? Try socialism, at least you wont be alone anymore!😃)
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Fact, the police kill more men than women BY FAR.. thats because more men commit crimes? No, its because the cops are sexist......


6 posted on 10/25/2021 5:12:34 AM PDT by Ikeon (Hate your life? Try socialism, at least you wont be alone anymore!😃)
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To: MtnClimber

Now that Colon Bowell is gone I guess not.


7 posted on 10/25/2021 5:30:00 AM PDT by xp38
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Man on man fellatio-giving, butt-monkey Superman not mentioned once...


8 posted on 10/25/2021 6:25:52 AM PDT by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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