# It's a Pretty Lame Protest if No One Gets Upset **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186 "2017-09-24T16:38:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/161 "2017-09-25T17:54:43Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > As do millions of others. He simply said what the rest of us are thinking. And millions of us agree with this WWII veteran: > **['Those kids have every right to protest' says WWII vet who took a knee](https://abc7.com/take-a-knee-nfl-colin-kaepernick-protest/2451839/)** > > A photo of a 97-year-old joining in the 'take a knee' protest with NFL players has been retweeted over 100,000 times. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/162 "2017-09-25T18:03:48Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Chided me lightly? > > Seriously? > > You were even more butthurt than I was. > > PS. I Voted for Trump and live in a swing state. Chide on that. > > Man, that’s gotta suck…some guy on the internet…that you think disrespects you…that doesn’t give a shit…voted for what you consider Hitler…and Hitler won… Every one of your posts in response to me has included an insult. U mad bro? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/163 "2017-09-25T18:07:19Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Every one of your posts in response to me has included an insult. U mad bro? No I’m happy actually. I’m like the asshole you always hated that lives next to you that won the lottery. Snowflake. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/164 "2017-09-25T18:09:00Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > No I’m happy actually. > > I’m like the asshole you always hated that lives next to you that won the lottery. You broke your streak! There may be a few moments left to hit “edit” and call me a snowflake. Hurry! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/165 "2017-09-25T18:09:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > As do millions of others. He simply said what the rest of us are thinking. I do hope **Clothahump** buys his vehicles only from the dealership with the largest American flag displayed out front. To do otherwise would be disrespectful. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/166 "2017-09-25T18:29:04Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > So, if I understand this whole foofaraw, Mr. Trump (plus a few SDMB posters and an unknown proportion of the public) believe it is a firing offense to stand or kneel in a certain way during the playing of the national anthem at a sports event. Plus NASCAR. They’ve announced that standing for the national anthem is mandatory and anyone who doesn’t will be fired. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/167 "2017-09-25T18:29:06Z")
[quote=“billfish678, post:163, topic:797186”] No I’m happy actually. QUOTE] I have no doubt you are. Most assholes such as yourself who troll message boards are probably quite happy as they fap along to the comments. “Herp derp, I’m trolling them librals! Haw haw! Next I’m gonna type about how a Nazi march “contains many good people!” Haw haw” Keep on trolling little muppet. Fap fap fap. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/168 "2017-09-25T18:30:38Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Plus NASCAR. They’ve announced that standing for the national anthem is mandatory and anyone who doesn’t will be fired. I assume they only need to stand for the salute to the Traitor Flag. That’s the one they respect. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/169 "2017-09-25T18:30:40Z")
Sorry, but your transmission cut off there… ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/170 "2017-09-25T18:35:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > As do millions of others. He simply said what the rest of us are thinking. You think people expressing political views at their work should be fired? What about people expressing their religious views at work? Should they be fired too? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/171 "2017-09-25T18:36:09Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Seeing veterans speak out in favor of the protest, and non veterans speak out against it, really makes me wonder at the cognitive dissonance involved. We’re talking about people who claim they’re showing their patriotism towards the United States by waving a Confederate flag. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/172 "2017-09-25T18:49:15Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You think people expressing political views at their work should be fired? What about people expressing their religious views at work? Should they be fired too? Some jackass here on the Dope got one of his coworkers in trouble for having a bumper sticker on his car he did not like. Hint, he was probably “liberal”. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/173 "2017-09-25T18:52:08Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Some jackass here on the Dope got one of his coworkers in trouble for having a bumper sticker on his car he did not like. > > Hint, he was probably “liberal”. Well, a citeless reference about an unnamed stranger is certainly a convincing argument. Case closed! ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/174 "2017-09-25T18:54:30Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Some jackass here on the Dope got one of his coworkers in trouble for having a bumper sticker on his car he did not like. > > Hint, he was probably “liberal”. The jackass you helped put into the Oval Office is advocating doing the same thing to many more people right now. Or is that different because you agree with that Jackass and not this one? I think they are both jackasses personally. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/175 "2017-09-25T19:09:59Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Some jackass here on the Dope got one of his coworkers in trouble for having a bumper sticker on his car he did not like. > > Hint, he was probably “liberal”. I, too, witnessed someone doing something that caused someone somewhere to have an emotional reaction, and some result happened! Probably a “conservative” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/176 "2017-09-25T19:24:09Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Some jackass here on the Dope got one of his coworkers in trouble for having a bumper sticker on his car he did not like. > > Hint, he was probably “liberal”. Tell us the one about the liberal who approached you when your were mowing your lawn, and told you that you were ruining the environment! That’s always a good story! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/177 "2017-09-25T19:32:11Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Tell us the one about the liberal who approached you when your were mowing your lawn, and told you that you were ruining the environment! That’s always a good story! With an electric mower. Don’t forget the punch line. Oh, and in a neighborhood with identically mowed lawns as far as the eye could see. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/178 "2017-09-25T19:49:07Z")
Too few people have ever been to a real, old-timey New England town meeting. I don’t get what limitation people are working under when they don’t realize that the people who stand for the national anthem, and the people who don’t, are doing _exactly the same thing_, engaging in the same political speech/act, for reasons that are either praiseworthy or not (though I bet more standers are doing it out of habit or fear of being marked as “different” and more non-standers are doing it after at least a moment’s thought), just as the people who speak on both sides of an issue at a town meeting are exercising the same rights, regardless of how much you don’t like them. The folks who want to silence (I mean suppress: they’re already silent) protesters who have repeatedly made it clear that theirs is a loyal, humble (kneeling silently to protest is about as innocuous as it gets) demonstration against grotesque racism in our policing and criminal justice system, are cowardly bigots who, afraid to out themselves as such, weakly pretend that this is about the flag and patriotism instead. I don’t invite these people to my home: they’d be arrested for trespassing, not bigoted ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/179 "2017-09-25T19:51:55Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Tell us the one about the liberal who approached you when your were mowing your lawn, and told you that you were ruining the environment! That’s always a good story! You haven’t seen my lawn have you? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186/180 "2017-09-25T19:53:32Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Well, a citeless reference about an unnamed stranger is certainly a convincing argument. Case closed! Do a search…or just ask around…but some liberal dick around these parts did just that… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-pretty-lame-protest-if-no-one-gets-upset/797186.md?page=10)