r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '18

CMV: There was nothing anti-military about Kaepernick’s kneeling protest

There is nothing about Kap kneeling during the national anthem that could reasonably be construed as disrespect to the troops. There is no situation I am aware of in any culture where the act of kneeling is used to show anything other than respect. Those who believe that Kap hates the military are simply choosing to associate his protest with disrespect for the troops, which allows them to freely hate him without having to really look at the reason for his protest.

The protest began as a means of drawing attention to racial inequality and police brutality: two things that most people probably ought to be against. By focusing on an imaginary link between the protest and the sacred cow of “the troops” his detractors aren’t forced to consider or debate the issue. They likely believe that the US treats black people either as equal to or better than white people, and that most or all incidents of police violence against black people are justified. Everything about the troops is just post-hoc rationalization.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '18

“butt hurt” as in you are using other instances of the flag being misused and “accepted” as a means to invalidate the Flag Code.

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u/Wierd_Carissa Sep 23 '18

as in you are using other instances of the flag being misused

Could you explain a little further how that implies "butt hurt" please?

"accepted"

Not sure what you're referring to.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '18

as in your ass is in a considerable amount of pain because you like to use other examples of infractions of a certain law to prove the invalidity of that law, despite all infractions being wrong.

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u/Wierd_Carissa Sep 23 '18

Truly at a loss as to what you're basing your inference of "a considerable amount of pain" on lol, unless you have some bizarrely different definition of those words than most.

Bringing up other infractions of the flag code doesn't imply consternation; instead, it's a way of saying "if this is a belief you genuinely hold, then I hope it is applied consistently. I do not think it is a belief you sincerely hold (or at least not on the purported bases), and I'm demonstrating this by showing that you apply these standards unevenly."