Posted on 09/29/2017 5:50:59 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Colin Kaepernick started out taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, but his activism has since expanded to encompass a wide range of leftist causes, including a group named after a convicted cop-killer.
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That’s where some of your ticket money went, suckers.
He will probly have 4 or 5 different NFL teams on the horn in the morning, lined up waiting for him to sign long term high dollar contracts.
Of course he did.
Trouble is, that is not so.
They are supporting the (erroneous) cause that Kapernick began to support. So transitivity does not apply.
In fact, the claim of transitivity would put people in ludicrous positions. They could not boost any cause championed by any person, unless that person was literal Jesus Christ in the flesh. The fallacy of the excluded middle is very, very blatant here, and it encapsulates what is wrong with the modern conservative movement. It isn’t conservative enough to honor all time-tested thought — only SOME of it. It’s hypocritical.
And if the supposed best of America — the “conservatives” — insist on acting in this asinine way...
Well, I wouldn’t actually kneel during the Anthem, but I might well answer its question — does that star spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave — with a sad but emphatic NO.
It’s o’er the land of the cowardly and politically correct of many stripes. And I see them even here on FR. Yes, I do. There is no heart left.
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