Let me provide
some help to you Kaepernick haters. My comments relate to the highlighted portions.
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Colin appears anti-American, unpatriotic, untrustworthy, a "douche," etc.
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You feel threatened at his disbelief in the national myth and in his apparent rejection of your tribal identifier/descriptor. So you attack him as "the other" in self-defense.
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I need to believe that my tribe is great, noble, and deserving of honor and respect. Yet Colin (and others) are not recognizing it! If they don't respect my tribe, they are disrespecting ME too! Aaaahhhh! :flaming:
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That's why this country is going to hell in a hand-basket! No one respects people in uniform who are trying to hold chaos at bay! And by chaos, we mean unpleasant change which forces me to reevaluate how I live my life. I don't want to change! I don't want new, foreign, people entering the country looking for a better life! I don't want Muslims taking over the country! And we all know Colin is a closet extremist Muslim! Protestant, white, males MUST remain in all positions of power, or else I won't ever be able to trust the authorities!
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I'm really to blame. I was naive enough to believe in government propaganda, like the "American Dream," despite how economists have long told us that an indefinite rise in the US standard of living and perpetual economic growth were never viable and sound concepts. I was naive to believe that law enforcement actually protects us from criminals, but instead it protects government and its cronies from us. Along the way it has produced the largest prison population in history. I was naive enough to believe that the military protects the lives, liberties, and property of Americans while improving the lives of foreigners too, but in actuality the military has failed in all of those objectives. I conflated fighting for the country with fighting for the government, the same government which now openly admits to supporting in Syria the same folks who attacked us 15 years ago. Not to mention the government, who the veterans fought for, doesn't even care for them when they return damaged, physically and mentally. The result is 20-something suicides every day.
Simply put, the anger I am projecting outward towards Colin and others is really misdirected frustration within myself for being sold fool's gold in my formative years. Growing up is sometimes hard, and I'm really just having a tantrum with all the NFL protests.