Not where they're doing it or at the time they're doing it. - This is not about who has what rights. Posted: Sep 28th, 2017 - 9:42 am In Reply to: So it is okay to protest something as long - as you feel it is important.
In the first place, the NFL protest itself is based on a massive lie peddled by people who earn their living by fomenting racial unrest.
The fact is that the United States is far more egalitarian than any other nation in the world that has a significant racially mixed population. Period. All this hands-up-don't-shoot business is pure crap but it finds a ready welcome in certain communities who would rather not admit that their problems are largely self-inflicted. It's a human trait that we all like to have someone ELSE to blame for our problems, so this lie is an easy lie to sell.
In the second place, this is not a free speech issue or any other issue pertaining to rights. It's about respecting the nation that provides every citizen regardless of race, creed or circumstance both the liberty and the opportunity to succeed...if they dare to take responsibility for their own lives.
The 1st amendment does not apply to the workplace. The 1st amendment constrains government from impinging on free speech. An employer is at perfect liberty to establish behavioral policies (and the NFL has done so, by the way, and enforced them in other circumstances), as long as the policy is enforced across the board and not in a discriminatory manner.
If you walked into a McDonald's today and the person behind the counter began to deliver a political tirade with your Big Mac, it would be a race to see which one of you hit the door first. And that's how it should be.
Let them demonstrate on their own time, and on their own dime. Better still, let them do something constructive about whatever grievance they imagine they have. Contribute, volunteer, whatever. No one would say a single word about any of that.
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