Just a couple of years ago, most Americans viewed those who
knelt during the national anthem with contempt. A majority of Americans
believed that athletes who knelt during the anthem were being disrespectful of
the flag, their nation, and the hundreds of thousands who gave the last full
measure of devotion defending the country and its banner.
That was
so yesterday.
A
new CBS poll claims to show that a majority of Americans now believe that
anthem-kneeling is an entirely acceptable form of protesting racial and other
discrimination. A far greater percentage of young people approve of kneeling
during the Star-Spangled Banner than do older folks. People’s of color are more
likely to approve of this type of protest than their white brethren. By far the
biggest divide, however, is found between white Democrats and white
Republicans. Roughly 80% of Caucasian Democrats are totally fine with anthem
kneelers, whereas roughly the same percentage of white Republicans are not.
But, as
the recent CBS poll shows, people’s opinions can—and do-- change very quickly,
especially as regards cultural norms. I have no doubt that, by 2023 at the
latest, Americans will be perfectly okay with professional athletes mooning
television cameras while the anthem is being played. By 2025, players who are
true social justice warriors will feel free to masturbate or take a big, fat
dump on the field or court whilst the national anthem is played and the flag
formerly known as “Old Glory” waves. In this way, players will express their
“resistance” to the social and sexual norms heretofore ruthlessly perpetuated
by the white hetero patriarchy…while bravely exposing themselves—and exposing
America as the steaming pile of crap that they purport to believe it is.
(Unless,
of course, the national anthem and the Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the
song “Imagine” and the LGBTQIIA+ flag by then, respectively.)
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