> You may not see standing during the anthem to be a big deal; someone else might. Sure. Ask that person how they feel about unfettered police brutality and re

> You may not see standing during the anthem to be a big deal; someone else might. Sure. Ask that person how they feel about unfettered police brutality and regularly killing unarmed civilians without consequence in "the land of the free". Now ask them to compare the two. This moral relativism sleight-of-hand only works for people who choose to ignore or just plain don't care about the underlying issue of police brutality in the US. > Someone else may believe differently. Sure. But if racists or jingoists believe racist or jingoist things, that doesn't magically make the racist or jingoist things they believe ok. > To take it to an extreme, consider the act of killing someone to push forth an agenda. A dictator, to save lives. A senator, to change the politics of something. You may think one of those is ok but not the other, or both. Someone else may believe differently. You're getting awfully close to suggesting an equality between murder and non-violent protest against consequence-free police brutality and killing of unarmed black people. I sincerely hope that isn't the case. Either way it's a terrible look. I'm going to just quietly back away from this conversation now. For one thing, we're going to hit the comment nest limit imminently.