[montblanc]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

abusing their position to make a personal political statement

abusing their position by kneeling down for a two minute song?

[montblanc]

stop acting as if their running across the field with banners and screaming stuff during the national anthem

they're silently and peacefully kneeling down during a song

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by montblanc

stop acting as if their running across the field with banners and screaming stuff during the national anthem

they're silently and peacefully kneeling down during a song

It isn’t just a song is it.

[montblanc]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

It isn’t just a song is it.

it is

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by montblanc

it is

Not to the NFL who are their employers - and not to many of the Americans who attend the matches who also pay their salaries.

[montblanc]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Not to the NFL who are their employers - and not to many of the Americans who attend the matches who also pay their salaries.

it is to the many americans that still suffer from the institutionalized and blatant racism displayed by "the land of the free and the home of the brave"

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by montblanc

it is to the many americans that still suffer from the institutionalized and blatant racism displayed by "the land of the free and the home of the brave"

And that has nothing to do with the NFL. Again they can protest in their own time - not try to do it at their employer’s expense.

[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by montblanc

it is to the many americans that still suffer from the institutionalized and blatant racism displayed by "the land of the free and the home of the brave"

So because someone got elected that people feel is a true racist (which I'm not saying they don't have good reason to feel as such, they absolutely do), it now nullifies everything that America has stood for, all the blood that our ancestors spilled, all the people we liberated, all the amazing achievements we've made as a nation, including the strives we've made in civil rights... all the other rights we enjoy as individuals, the flag and constitution has nothing to do with these things?...

That's the epitome of privilege. Which is why so many folk are going to be turned off by those antics during the anthem. Donald Trump's vote count was lower than John McCain's iirc. Maybe the left needs to look at themselves and realizes if maybe if part of the reason they lost is because of their behavior... and it's not because the US is an evil entity out to ruin people's lives... there is far more evidence of the latter.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by montblanc

abusing their position by kneeling down for a two minute song?

On the company’s time - sports stars are no different to anyone else and should keep it out of the workplace.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

On the company’s time - sports stars are no different to anyone else and should keep it out of the workplace.

How dare they kneel on company time!

Of course the NFL is different to a normal workplace, it's silly to pretend it is. NFL stars are visible and known to millions of people and this ban sends a message 'You're allowed opinions, just as long as it doesn't offend our sensitive right wing overlords.'

These stars weren't stopping a match and wheeling out a board to preach politics, they were making a harmless statement that didn't affect the game at all but became a story because it offended a bunch of white people who don't want to acknowledge the fact that black people are being abused and killed by officers that should be protecting them.

The NFL have shown themselves to be spineless bitches with this ban.