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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:12 AM Feb 2017

Remember the rightwing howl over Colin Kaepernick?

How "unpatriotic" he was for taking a knee?
How he did it in front of the military present at the game and how awful that was?

Yet now that tRump has equated the Iraq war with the murder Putin does where are they?

Where is this outrage now?

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Remember the rightwing howl over Colin Kaepernick? (Original Post) SHRED Feb 2017 OP
they're programmed to hate. taking a knee is a sign of respect. think marriage proposal. unblock Feb 2017 #1
nowhere Afromania Feb 2017 #2
It's always situational with them. lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #3
Very selective indeed. SHRED Feb 2017 #4
Kaepernick is black JI7 Feb 2017 #5
There's that for sure SHRED Feb 2017 #6
First, it was "Don't demonstrate in the streets! Protest quieter" gratuitous Feb 2017 #7
Silly rabbit, don't you know? Always IOKIYAR! nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #8

unblock

(52,195 posts)
1. they're programmed to hate. taking a knee is a sign of respect. think marriage proposal.
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:24 AM
Feb 2017

it only became objectionable to them because they didn't like his message.

if someone had taken a knee and said it was to acknowledge our troops, they would have loved and insisted everyone else was unpatriotic for *not* taking a knee.

lpbk2713

(42,753 posts)
3. It's always situational with them.
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:31 AM
Feb 2017



It all depends who you are at what particular point in time. IOKIYAR.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. First, it was "Don't demonstrate in the streets! Protest quieter"
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 02:06 AM
Feb 2017

Then Kaepernick started taking a knee during the pointless, endless playing of the national anthem before sporting events, and their outrage changed to "Not like that! Protest some way that's quiet, doesn't offend our tender sensibilities, and if at all possible in a way that we don't even have to recognize."

The right wing is always howling over something, quite often something that doesn't even exist, like the Bowling Green Massacre.

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