Re: Kaepernick, Redskins, and the NFL
Posted by:
Double Standard
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Date: September 27, 2016 06:40PM
You know... Wrote:
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> doubleStandard Wrote:
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> > I disagree. Why is it OKAY for one to complain
> but
> > the other not too?? Seriously sick of people
> > preaching 1st Amendment rights but then strike
> > people down for their first amendment right to
> > have a difference in opinion.
> >
> > If one is okay, you need to respect the other
> > people whom are non violently disagreeing with
> > them. They have the same right to "complain".
>
> It's one thing to say "I disagree with what
> they're saying/doing". Taking a stand that
> suggests the protesters are somehow violating
> American principles is different, because it's
> *not* doing so. See the difference?
>
> I'm not personally in favor of these protests,
> because I don't think that it's a particularly
> effective venue. But "un-American" is, well,
> un-American.
>
> But yeah, freedom of speech doesn't imply "no
> opprobrium". If I say "I think the sky is pink",
> that's freedom of speech; if you decide (and say)
> that I'm an idiot for saying so, then you're
> entitled to that opinion. If you say "Anyone who
> says the sky is pink should be thrown in jail",
> you're advocating abolition of First-Amendment
> rights, which is, again, pretty unequivocally
> un-American.
>
> See the difference? It's semi-subtle, but it's
> there.
No one said send him to jail. But I'm free to call him the piece of shit that he is just as he is free to be an asshole and disrespect this country. See the difference.
Calling someone un-american because the protest is being an american by using their first amendment right. Fucking assholes cry like they weren't hug enough as children because people call someone protesting an asshole. Protest all you want, but I'll call you an asshole all day. Doesn't mean you should go to jail but I'm also not some thug asshole that is going to use violence to make someone agree with my opinion.
Yes...protest the oppression. Protest black bias. Yes...make your point by having a black guy kill a black guy while protesting that a black criminal was shot by a black cop. You know...because white people oppress the black man.