White Privilege purposeful misunderstanding of issue and false equivalency. Sad. Cartoon gets it wrong.
OK, employers can punish employees when they do not do what is asked of them. If you work for an employer who plays the National Anthem at work, you have to stand if they require you to stand.
If employees choose not to stand for the national anthem, they can be punished, but should not be fired. It is silly to try to fire an employee for not standing for the national anthem, SILLY.
You cannot use your place of employment as your platform for peaceful First Amendment protests, UNLESS the President makes that protest an employment issues!
When Tweety says your employer should fire you, HE made it a job action, not the employee.
Employers can stop playing the national anthem at work, but for sports it seems normal to play it. NFL and other sports events will not stop playing the anthem, it brings in more paying fans. Patriotism and all the associated trappings make money for owners. The NFL made a new rule requiring standing during the National Anthem. Protesting players should stay in the locker room until the anthem is completed.
"NFL teams being on the field for anthem is a relatively new practice"
By Tom E. Curran August 29, 2016 12:07 PM
"It’s a tribute to the NFL’s ability to drape itself in the flag that nobody even realizes that – prior to 2009 – players being on the field for the national anthem wasn’t even standard practice."
More.
"Players have been on the sidelines for then anthem prior to select games – Super Bowls, post 9/11 tributes, etc. and perhaps teams such as Fisher’s Rams, Titans, Oilers and Bears had their own customs that included routinely being on the field for the anthem. But it’s worth whispering into the hysteria that, “Hey, standing en masse just started seven years ago.”"
