The Left Never Loved Athletic Activism, Just Athletes Who Agreed With Them |
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The Left Never Loved Athletic Activism, Just Athletes Who Agreed With Them
It’s hard to ignore how the left went from celebrating the First Amendment to using it as a cudgel.
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Nearly ten years ago San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made headlines when he kneeled for the national anthem. The decision to disrespect the flag was met with praise from the left and its corporate media allies.
“Colin Kaepernick absolutely has a constitutional right to express his opinion on the politics of diversity in America,” one headline in the San Francisco Chronicle read.
The New York Times’ Daniel Victor wrote a piece entitled: “Obama Says Colin Kaepernick Is ‘Exercising His Constitutional Right.'”
The article details how then president-Obama framed Kaepernick’s kneeling as a constitutional right and that “the president said there was a long history of sports figures making political statements.”
An op-ed by Eric Reid, who also took a knee with Kaepernick, was published in The New York Times and declared that kneeling for the flag was part of the First Amendment.
Peaceful protest is a First Amendment right — but so is freedom of religion. Which is why it’s so interesting to see the same outlets that cheered the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to free speech........