How dare someone express their voice in a manner that you do not approve of. What does he think this is, a free country?
I’d be interested in learning more about the origin and context of that photo. Your cite says it originated on Facebook, but the FB page that posted it doesn’t, as far as I can tell, identify where they got it from. I guess the page owner may be the one who captioned it with a reference to “my daughter”. A reverse image search for it only seems to turn up a remarkably racist 4chan thread, which appears to have been started after the image went up on FB. Based just on this photo, it’s hard to draw many conclusions about what the guy is doing or why.
Snopes says the earliest version of the image they could find was posted to Reddit. They go on to say that the version posted to the Salute Media FB page was posted after the Reddit post but it appears to be a screengrab of an earlier image (I’m not sure how they made that determination). Snopes contacted Salute Media for more information:
Sadly, it appears that Trump’s election victory was not the laxative that some so desperately need.
Remind me–you were the one yapping about freedom of speech when it was the Nazis protesting, right? Apparently your devotion to free speech only reaches this far (imagine someone reaching his right hand out, palm down)
Has anyone asked him?
I can think of many different physical gestures to convey derision, contempt and/or disloyalty. So can any of you. Why, perzackly, is going to one knee come any where near those? Because the intent of the gesture is interpreted to be disloyal?
84% of respondents agree NFL players have the right to protest.
In fairness, 49% of respondents say they should choose a different way to protest, but it sure makes all those loud people on social media seem a lot fewer.
I don’t know what religion you were brought up in, but as a Cradle Catholic who did a lot of kneeling and genuflecting in his time, genuflection is PRECISELY the correct and appropriate thing to do there, a national shrine, and then, during Taps. I don’t know where your possible snark came from, beyond your obviously damaged soul.
Huh? He is fully free to do whatever he wants during playing of Taps at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I asked if y’all thought it was disrespectful or if he was just “genuflecting”. Where do you see me denying him the right?
And I noticed that everyone so far responding avoided the question. So - just stipulating the circumstances of the photo - is “taking a knee” during playing of Taps at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier disrespectful?
Because it’s being done (mostly) by black people.
I honestly can’t think of any situation where kneeling is disrespectful. It’s a gesture of fealty, for goodness sakes!
(There are times it’s simply a bad idea, though. While driving, for example.)
I hear a bended knee is a favored stance for young men eager to ruin their lives.
I did it while sitting in a restaurant in DeKalb, Illinois. “I suppose we should probably get married,” is rarely heard without one partner being pregnant, but I’m from Minnesota and, IRL, say NOTHING directly.
Whether it’s respectful or disrespectful, or if he fell down in grief, it’s protected speech. Again, that thing you care so much about when it’s Nazis doing it, remember?
I have family members buried in the vicinity. The last was in 2012. That scene in the photo does not suggest disrespect to me. I would have to say that being down on one knee there, during Taps, has more to do with respect than disrespect, and would be some kind of uniquely personal protest if it was a protest at all. And in general, I would be very, very careful ascribing motives to anyone at Arlington.
Evil, a lotta guys would look at your signature and say, “Can you be more specific about whom you are speaking?”
ETA: I, OTOH, and am more accepting and believe if the water sports are mutually agreed upon, have your fun.
As I explained, WITHOUT avoiding the question, a flat NO! And you are hate-filled idiot.
ETA: I took a knee when I was there in '71. It was the right thing to do, you fucking moron.
It could be literally anyone in my family.
Fair enough.