Should the NFL be boycotted?

[Reep]

I do not understand. A football player makes a 1st amendment protest against the symbol of a country that he believes is still oppressing his race.

I cannot really understand why some soldier believes the player’s protest was directed against him and his fellow soldiers of 26 years ago. The protest was not even directed at US military intervention that has ruined so many countries over the last generation.

Sometimes, I think I’d like to boycott the NFL–not for the occasional player protest–but for the tens of millions of dollars it has taken from the US government to present military tributes and pageantry at the ball games.

Some of us don’t particularly enjoy being forced to pay for the killing of people in foreign countries (while making enemies of the rest). Naturally, I’d like to watch a game without being reminded of my complicity in those activities.

 

[hu324b]

Thankfully I am not an American and am not affected by the politics - looking fwd to Sunday and Monday night football next week.

As a Canadian there is a long list of our Anthem being botch over and over again and we don’t get angry when someone doesn’t stand.- I just laugh - it just makes them look really stupid.

Kaepernick lost his job because of his horrible play no because of his protest - if he truly was a good QB he would be signed by now . He got lucky that one year because no one had seen him before and they had a good coach that year - but the following year teams figured him out pretty quickly now that they had lots of film of him playing .

 

[LeafByNiggle]

Exactly! They get paid so much money and many are treated like celebrities and they
have so many opportunities. Then to pull the attention getting stunts like not standing for the national anthem is really sickening .

Those who demonstrate like that are not complaining about their own treatment. This has nothing to do with how fortuanate they are. The fact that they have it good in no way reflects on the sincerity of their message.

Apply the same logic to the complainer-in-chief, Mr. Trump, who also has much to be thankful for from this country. Yet he complains all the time. Why don’t we criticize him for that too?