<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">This should cover several comments: you have to understand that the Deep South is very much an honor society, not all that different from the near-Asians who kill a girl who commits fornication. Kneeling or doing anything out of the ordinary (remember two black guys shoving fists in the air at an Olympics?) is not honorable. Yes, it's a military thing. (But don't get me started on singing the Anthem - abominable singing going way back to when Robert Merrill did it right in the World Series - anyone remember that and him?).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Driving while black - dwb - yes, down here the blacks have two strikes against them to start with, and black and female is the double whammy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 7:32 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:13 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2020-10-21 15:26, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> > Football is huge down here, but my barber told me that many had quit<br>
> > the NFL entirely because of the kneeling during the National Anthem.<br>
> > Kind of throwing the baby out with the bath water.<br>
><br>
> At least they didn't quit it for a silly reason,<br>
> like the League's non-response to brain damage.<br>
<br>
Or spousal abuse. Stuff like that doesn't seem to matter to the fans.<br>
It's just anyone who question their cherished beliefs about the<br>
nation. That makes them fume and foam at the mouth.<br>
<br>
> The kneeling thing would be only a passing curiosity if Certain People<br>
> hadn't flipped their lid going "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE WHOLE<br>
> POINT OF A FOOTBALL GAME IS TO HONOR THE IMPERIAL WAR MACHINE??!"<br>
<br>
Exactly! Beating wives and girlfriends doesn't matter at all to the so<br>
called 'family values' crowd. But kneeling is the worst crime ever in<br>
their eyes. I thought it was more than ridiculous because kneeling in<br>
itself is, as I said in another post, not a form of disrespect. If<br>
someone kneeled before you, would you think they meant to disrespect<br>
you?<br>
<br>
> That<br>
> might put me off flags, if I hadn't been anarchist since ~1983 anyway.<br>
<br>
I stopped doing the pledge thing too. It's made friends of mine<br>
uncomfortable when I've attended government meetings. But I have yet<br>
to be canceled for it. Then again, this was long before the BLM<br>
movement. (And I never kneeled. I just stayed seated.)<br>
<br>
>> It didn't help that the<br>
>> guy who popularized it was Black or some mixture.<br>
><br>
> He should know his place, eh?<br>
<br>
That's the message they sent him. In other words, shut up, don't<br>
complain, and be happy things aren't worse. Which kind of sums up the<br>
conservative nationalist view of the protesting -- save for when<br>
they're the ones doing the complaining. Then we see the biggest<br>
snowflakes in history on parade. :)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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