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[Hex]

This came across my social media, and I did not see a thread.

Story here

After then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protested the national anthem during the 2016-17 season, many other players jumped in and did the same, and have continued the protests into the 2017 season.

However, on Sunday, the protests were taken to a whole new level when an entire St. Louis football team of 25 players, all younger than eight years old, took a knee rather than standing during the national anthem.

The coach, former Mizzou football player Orlando Gooden, told Fox 2 Now St. Louis, ”one of the kids asked me if I saw (people) protesting and rioting in St. Louis. I said yes; I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?'" The coach said that his player responded, "because black people are getting killed and nobody's going to jail."

Needless to say the thread is a clusterfuck.
Link to the Facebook thread here

I say good on the kids, and good on the coach.

Kids have a clarity and openness before tainted by adults, and this is constantly proven true.

 

[Hobbestetrician]

Good for them.

8-year olds should definitely not be playing tackle football, though.

 

[uncelestial]

That thread is depressing. But I'm glad these kids have some stand up adults in their lives.

Who the fuck decided we have to play the national anthem before certain (but not all) sporting events anyway?

 

[Dishwalla]

Fire them! Kick them off the field!

 

[rjinaz]

those sons of bitches.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Get those sons of bitches off the field!! They're grounded!

 

[weekev]

Good stuff, props to the coach for teaching these kids unity. If we educate future generations we wont have the same monumentally fucked up system that currently exists in America where black people are still being persecuted for the colour of their skin.

 

[JJH]

Reading those comments...

 

[DonShula]

We're on the darkest fucking timeline when adults are going after eight year olds for understanding injustice and responding to it.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Reading those comments...

wonder if any of those fucks would talk like that to little kids IRL

 

[Kthulhu]

Reading those comments...

Why do y'all torture yourselves?

 

[Ogodei]

wonder if any of those fucks would talk like that to little kids IRL

I'm sure they would, because they're the kind of gutless shitsacks that only intimidate people who can't hit back.

 

[Hex]

It is disturbing how many are all "If it were my kid, I would take them out so fast!" "Fire that coach" "Kid's shouldn't be able to make decisions for themselves!" (The last is my favorite).

I really hope an example is made tomorrow for the whole country to see.

 

[ezrarh]

Reading those comments...

I'd rather watch the Cleveland Browns than read comments on things like this.

 

[Pops Maellard]

We're on the darkest fucking timeline when adults are going after eight year olds for understanding injustice and responding to it.

Obviously the children are supposed to blindly conform to their parents beliefs. What’s the point of having kids if you don’t get to perpetuate your ignorance?

 

[uncelestial]

What's amazing is the people in that thread complaining that the kids are brainwashed and don't know what they're saying. I suppose if the kids were all putting their hands on their hearts and reciting the anthem by rote memorization they would regard that as a spontaneous display of patriotism?

 

[WedgeX]

They play the anthem at kids games now?

 

[zelas]

Kids have a clarity and openness before tainted by adults, and this is constantly proven true.

Yep

 

[RS4-]

We're on the darkest fucking timeline when adults are going after eight year olds for understanding injustice and responding to it.

The kids are more educated, and understand issues better than the scum fuck racists of America.

 

[The Kree]

They play the anthem at kids games now?

What, you think indoctrination starts at adulthood?

 

[BFIB]

Reading those comments...

One of those is my aunt. Who has bi racial grandchildren. I told her she must only look at the White part of them.

 

[Eggiem]

What, you think indoctrination starts at adulthood?

USA! USA!

 

[shira]

They play the anthem at kids games now?

How else can they learn to clap?

 

[the1npc]

Wow those comments...some one said "try that at a military base" like wtf

 

[Syder]

They play the anthem at kids games now?

Gotta get that indoctrination started early...



and the CTE apparently too

 

[TimeEffect]

I thought theybwere on there knees like Church

 

[LucidMomentum]

Wow those comments...some one said "try that at a military base" like wtf

I guess kid's sporting events are SAFE SPACES FOR LIBERULS

SMH

 

[Maintenance]

8-year olds should definitely not be playing tackle football, though.

.

 

[Slayven]

The white hot rage that thought of valuing a minorities illicit in some

 

[The Kree]

Wow those comments...some one said "try that at a military base" like wtf

Which is silly because if you really want the kids to be shot, you'd send them to a police station, not a military base.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Ah look, another fun USA thread on... wait, are those kids... and people are going after them... ehm, Operator, I need an exit?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

They play the anthem at kids games now?

It's funny because this is kinda the NFL's doing. Took a bunch of money to cosign the hero worship and it's tearing it apart.

 

[tonysidaway]

What, you think indoctrination starts at adulthood?

First sign your society is fucked up: you have a piece of cloth on a stick in every classroom, and the kids are coerced to pledge allegiance to it every morning.

Every morning.

 

[EGM1966]

Gives me hope for the future. Well done those kids.

 

[Bakercat]

Get those sons of bitches off the field!

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Who the fuck decided we have to play the national anthem before certain (but not all) sporting events anyway?

The US military paid the NFL to help promote their brand and part of that deal included a singalong. I'll look up the column I learned this from when I'm off mobile.

 

[psyfi]

Yessss! Little resistance babies! That's really sweet and brave.

 

[Montresor]

Get those sons of bitches off the field!

I understood that reference.

 

[Fred-87]

"because black people are getting killed and nobody's going to jail.”

Its so sad when this is stuff a 8 year old has on his mind. He should be concerned about what pokemon card to get and so on

 

[FranF]

nvm, mods delete this post, too much personal info here

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Who the fuck decided we have to play the national anthem before certain (but not all) sporting events anyway?

Found the column about how the NFL and the military came together in 2009 to turn the start of every game into a miltary-fellating exercise in jingoistic indoctrination.

NO NFL PLAYER STOOD FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM UNTIL 2009—BEFORE THEN, THE PLAYERS STAYED IN THE LOCKER ROOM AS THE ANTHEM PLAYED. NFL TEAMS GOT PATRIOTIC IN RECENT YEARS BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD FOR BUSINESS. A 2015 CONGRESSIONAL REPORT REVEALED THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAD PAID $5.4 MILLION TO NFL TEAMS BETWEEN 2011 AND 2014 TO STAGE ON-FIELD PATRIOTIC CEREMONIES; THE NATIONAL GUARD SHELLED OUT $6.7 MILLION FOR SIMILAR DISPLAYS BETWEEN 2013 AND 2015.

 

[Lyon N. Laap]

The idolatry towards the flag and the national anthem is rather disconcerting in a nation that represents itself on the international stage as a bastion of freedom and independence.

 

[uncelestial]

Found the column about how the NFL and the military came together in 2009 to turn the start of every game into a miltary-fellating exercise in jingoistic indoctrination.

Damn I'm pretty cynical and that's even more fucked up than I thought.