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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 307: Tulsa Staggered
xp1337 06/22/20 11:15:48 PM #120:	I still don't even know why kneeling is seen as a disrespectful gesture here. It's seen as a gesture of respect in pretty much every other context. Keapernick chose it precisely in order to honor a request that he show respect! I think the closest anyone in this topic has ever gotten to trying to answer this for me is, "You're asked to stand!" but I mean the flag isn't asking you to stand. If anything you're disrespecting the PA person by ignoring them. What it is is different from the norm, which draws attention... which is the goal. It's supposed to make you ask why they're choosing that alternate means which is an opening for them to give you the message. was raising a fist on the olympic podium disrespectful too? --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:941105549] in Politics C... [t:78793749]...</cite> <quote>I still don't even know why kneeling is seen as a disrespectful gesture here. It's seen as a gesture of respect in pretty much every other context. Keapernick chose it precisely in order to honor a request that he show respect! I think the closest anyone in this topic has ever gotten to trying to answer this for me is, "You're asked to stand!" but I mean the flag isn't asking you to stand. If anything you're disrespecting the PA person by ignoring them. What it is is different from the norm, which draws attention... which is the goal. It's supposed to make you ask why they're choosing that alternate means which is an opening for them to give you the message. was raising a fist on the olympic podium disrespectful too? --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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