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.
We’ve 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, I’m not going to spend much time with the most obvious counter, but it’s worth stating. In the fairytale we Americans tell ourselves where soldiers fight wars for freedom and not imperial conquests, the story says they’re fighting for someone’s right to protest, not the opposite. So using the troops as a cudgel against protest wholly misunderstands even our own national fairytale.
So, that’s obvious enough, but what I’m talking about is this. If white athletes can’t fathom kneeling because they feel soldiers fought for their rights and blah blah blah patriotism, it’s 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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All is good...Just sealcoated driveway yesterday—93 in the sun...ugh what a nasty job, but I do it better than the guys who come around....
Working on getting ready for fall—garden still going strong.
Oh and plotting my IL escape LOL :(
Arguing with Rabid Liberals can be fun. We echo each other here which I enjoy tremendously. But there are days when I get so irritated with MSM/Rabid Liberals that I have to let off some steam. And this guy needs some pummeling. ; )
You have a point re echo chamber...and you have twitter skillz ;)
And the 300 lb gorilla in the room is all those dark skinned East Indian and West Indian immigrants, along with yellow skinned Chinese and Korean immigrants, who seem to be doing just fine here in Capitalist America. Many of theme are doing better than most White people. I guess they’re White supremacists too, as well as all the Black Jamaican immigrants who work 3 different jobs, and think that African Americans are lazy and entitled.
“What the world looks like” is really not the problem of idiot hunks of blubber who make millions per year to crash into one another.
Football sux.
Benn left out “FOOL” in his self description. What’s with the “partner”? Another braindead leftist showing off just how ridiculous and anti-American he is.
But then again, he writes for the Huffington Post (probably because Tass and Izvestia are out of business, but he could try RT TV and Sputnik).
Whites are genetically evil.
This is proven by the fact that they stand during the National Anthem.
Only by branding Whites as genetically evil can a person be against racism, because the definition of being against racism is expressing hatred for Whites based on their race.
Also, every ounce of sweat, every hour of toil, every economic struggle of any White person ever is indicative of their privilege.
- according to liberalism -
What?
I too had a real estate guy come over? What are you thinking?
That is what the whole entire issue has become
Trying to brand America as rasist
The fans see right through it
However It seems the players have taken too many hits
Logical question...
If white people standing for the anthem is in support of white supremacy, does black people not standing for the anthem mean that they do not support black equality?
He has the same dead eyes as my friend’s heroin-addicted son.
When racism is your only talking point everything looks like white supremacy.
When getting blacks out to vote is your only chance of winning an election everything looks like white supremacy.
The MSM has gone full ‘tard against America. This is an all out assault on nothing less than patriotism and the notion of nationality. The filthy commies just want E Pluribus. Full stop.
Those who have only race to hold on to can’t grasp that they are also a minority as far as how their brain’s malfunction. They have dropped below pitiful.
So be this logic can we conclude that black players that stand are also white supremacists?
I am as profoundly offended by NFL players taking a knee din disrespect of my Flag and Anthem as they would be if I call the NFL, the N-word Football League.
The person who wrote this is a “Dad, partner, engaged citizen, blah-blah...”
Know what I guarantee you he is NOT: An actual football fan.
BTW, the correct term for the spittle put forth by these Leftist turds (patriarchy, intersectionalism, blah)is “word salad”.
Garbage!
We are only superior, not supreme! < /sarc tag needed? >
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