Posted on 09/26/2017 7:40:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is the problem of privilege. It skews our ability to grasp what the world looks like outside our view.
The absence of white athletes kneeling for the anthem Sunday was a particularly illustrative moment in white privilege.
See, for white athletes the anthem and American flag do represent freedom, liberty and whatever other amorphous American values one might ascribe these symbols. So, from their view, kneeling would be disrespectful to the privileges a white supremacist nation affords them.
Weve all heard the typical argument against kneeling. Kneeling during the anthem disrespects the flag and the soldiers who fought for your right to protest and blah blah blah patriotism!
Now, Im not going to spend much time with the most obvious counter, but its worth stating. In the fairytale we Americans tell ourselves where soldiers fight wars for freedom and not imperial conquests, the story says theyre fighting for someones right to protest, not the opposite. So using the troops as a cudgel against protest wholly misunderstands even our own national fairytale.
So, thats obvious enough, but what Im talking about is this. If white athletes cant fathom kneeling because they feel soldiers fought for their rights and blah blah blah patriotism, its because they are treated as full citizens and afforded those rights they imagine soldiers fought for. Interpreting their own experience as something more universal, they struggle to understand why anyone should kneel. Indeed, for them, the anthem and American flag represent promises fulfilled....
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LOL just trying to figure out where to go...starting to plan exit.
House newly painted, driveway freshly sealcoated...had stumper out to take out some tree stumps...Still lots to do outside and inside.
Who knows how fast I can get out of Dodge, but I want to.
I'm guessing this bint immediately dismisses anyone who disagrees with her as a Nazi...without any sense of irony over what she just wrote.
Is he Paul Ryan’s illegitimate son by any chance? He’s got the same vacant dazed look in his eyes.
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