Qball Report This Comment Date: May 26, 2021 02:16PM
I don't know how you can make the comparison.
Rub Wrongway Report This Comment Date: May 27, 2021 04:24AM
Qball: That's a good question. I also don't quite see how certain people can
get bent out of shape by seeing an athlete choose a different method of saluting
the flag, yet see no issue with police committing homicide against minorities. I
guess it's in one's priorities, who and what matters most. The majority of
people would think an act that hurts no other person but might be considered
disrespectful to one's national flag pales to suffocating another person in the
street... but that minority that get angry about a knee to the turf but not a
knee to the neck are kinda vocal of late.
officer figpucker Report This Comment Date: May 27, 2021 12:11PM
How do you disrespect a piece of cloth? What a weird thing to say.
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: May 27, 2021 07:10PM
I've always thought the saying of 'disrespecting the flag', or 'fought and died
for the flag' was just weird. A national flag is a representation of a nation,
and I can understand disrespecting a nation, or fighting and dying for a nation,
and all that nation stands for. However, nations have changed their flags, but
it doesn't change the nation. It's usually because the nation has already
changed and the new flag represents the nation as it is now, not what it used to
be.
Rub Wrongway Report This Comment Date: May 28, 2021 04:24PM
GAK67: I agree fully with what you said about a flag being symbolism and how
they change. I feel like pointing out one significant exception: the Confederate
flag. People are still waving that one despite the 'nation' (or part of a
nation) it represented being long gone, though what that group stood for -- or
what we now have ascribed to that flag and that group's intentions, whether the
description is fully accurate or not -- is just as old-fashioned and
out-of-date. Plus it always seems strange to banter around a flag for the losing
and treasonous side of an internal war.