Originally posted by Bentley
So you think taunting in boxing is against the spirit of the sport?
In politics. 😛
But since you brought it up, I never liked how Ali ran people down. I get that's part of his charm, and a big part of the reason crowds loved him, but.. it's not professional wrestling. I can laugh at The Rock, but doing so irl, to me, a guys just being a jerk.
Originally posted by Robtard
Personally, I've never felt my patriotism being attacked by someone else not standing for the National Anthem. Even people who burn the US flag do not affect my patriotism; I think they're stupid as I think flag burning is stupid, but I don't feel insulted or less American because of it. Maybe I'm just that patriotic where another can't make me question my own patriotism or maybe I'm just not a little b***h looking for something irrelevant to me to whine over while covering it up as patriotism.
Originally posted by cdtm
Accept abortion is wrong.Accept marriage is between men and women.
Accept kneeling in front of the flag, isn't disrespecting the flag.
That's how they're similar. The people feel how they feel, and are being asked to feel differently.
Of course, it's equally valid to say:
Accept I don't accept you're a woman.
And they may be deeply offended. At that point, not much to be done except agree to disagree, or agree to limit/end the relationship.
My main issue with the flag protests, is that they're clearly intending to provoke a reaction, while pretending "Nah."
Of COURSE they want to offend. Or they wouldn't do it in front of the flag at all. Flag protests, in all cases, are INTENDED to provoke a reaction from others.
Call it a pet peeve, but I don't believe in intentionally trying to provoke others. For any reason. It simply isn't necessary.
Sometimes, you can't help to, either way, but generally attempting to respect boundries is the ideal.
I just call bullshit on this entire thing because next to none of these players did anything during the off season to take advantage of all the attention they received over this. All they seemed to do is whine like spoiled millionaires at the thought they might not be able to kneel at their jobs.
If it truly wasn't about the flag they would have stopped kneeling during the anthem and would have found another time to do it. They continue to do it merely to piss off Trump and other people who find it disrespectful.
They have the right to protest, but I've yet to see a valid explanation given for why they still need to kneel specifically during the anthem.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
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