Posted on June 30,
2020
15 Yards For Hijacking
The NFL is Antifa
now
by
Daniel
Clark
Since the killing of George Floyd, it has become
understood that the peaceful demonstrators who filled the streets in major cities
across America have had their cause hijacked by violent Marxist
extremists. If that's the case, then the
National Football League should be counted not among the demonstrators, but
among the hijackers.
It's been widely reported that NFL commissioner Roger
Goodell has done an about-face on national anthem protests, but that's not exactly
true. Refusing to stand before the
American flag during The Star-Spangled
Banner is a violation of the league's game operations manual, but Goodell
has always declined to enforce that rule.
All that's new is that whereas Goodell had previously tacitly endorsed
these anti-American demonstrations, he now does so explicitly. Contrary to the victimization cult of Colin Kaepernick, Goodell has never opposed the infamous
America-hating, informationally impervious, logically impaired, one-man fumble
factory from the San Francisco 49ers.
The harshest thing the commissioner ever said about Kaepernick
was, "I don't necessarily agree with what he's doing." Now he feels it necessary to do so. Four years ago, Goodell said, "we believe
strongly in patriotism in the NFL." It
wasn't really true then, and by now, he's stopped pretending that it is.
After
stating yet again that he would encourage NFL teams to consider signing Kaepernick, Goodell said, "If his efforts are not on the
field but continuing to work in this space," meaning his political activism,
"we welcome him to that table and to help guide us, help us make better
decisions about the kinds of things that need to be done in the
communities." Ah yes, Colin the Wise Man
will show us the way.
As long as Goodell thinks the NFL is a political
action committee, it's no wonder it doesn't function very well as a football
league anymore. When the players are on
the field and in uniform, they're supposed to be united as a team. Instead, the occasion is being used as a platform
for incendiary political activism. Worse
yet, by explicitly siding with the protestors, the NFL is now sending the
message that the opposing point of view is not to be tolerated.
Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien, among others, has
gotten the message. In the middle of a
logically and historically ignorant rant, O'Brien announced that he'll be
kneeling with his players this season.
Does that mean all of his players are in agreement? No, what it means is
that those players who disagree will either take the blame for dividing the
team, or else they'll give in and engage in an expression of hatred toward
their country, against their will.
Kaepernick's
leadership in this campaign is often presented as evidence that the
demonstrations are not meant as protests against the American flag and national
anthem, even though that is literally what they are. Everyone knows that Kaepernick
only started kneeling to protest police brutality, right? Well, no.
"I've been very clear from the beginning that I'm against systematic
oppression," he said in 2016. "Police
violence is just one of the symptoms of that oppression. For me, that is something that needs to be
addressed, but it's not the whole issue."
So not even he says the anthem protests are about
police brutality, but then, why would anybody think they were? The man who has become the NFL's guide to
making better decisions is the same Colin Kaepernick
who became outraged at the prospect of a sneaker being produced with an image
of an American flag on it, the same Colin Kaepernick
who celebrates "Unthanksgiving Day," upon which he
rails against the very existence of the United States, the same Colin Kaepernick who condemned the drone strike against Iranian
terrorist Qassem Suleimani
as a racist attack by American imperialists.
As
for systematic oppression, how opposed is he, really? Was he thinking about how fervently he
opposes systematic oppression when he wore a tee-shirt that approvingly
referenced Fidel Castro to a postgame press conference? Or when, during his "clarification" of this
event, he chirped the usual Communist twaddle about Cuba having the world's
highest literacy rate, and meekly conceded that he was against whatever
oppressive things Castro may have done, while still defending the man as a
whole?
Taking his cue from Cuba, Kaepernick
organized what is ostensibly an educational charity, called "Know Your Rights
Camp," which is really a series of Marxist indoctrination seminars for
children. There he supplies them with
copies of Howard Zinn's America-hating fantasy, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present. Zinn, a rabid Communist who once declared, "I
stand to the Left of Mao Tse Tung," was
pathologically anti-American to the point where he even took Japan's side in
its attack on Pearl Harbor, and characterized the Marshall Plan as a sinister
capitalist plot. Meanwhile, he depicted
Communists, everywhere from Vietnam to Nicaragua, as having only the noblest of
intentions. So much for promoting
education, and so much for opposing systematic oppression.
Of the two groups that took to the streets this
spring, only the first one, that organized and marched while the sun was still
up, was predominantly concerned with the events surrounding George Floyd's
death. The second group, which always
came out late at night, was populated with Antifa
activists, who don't understand "fa" well enough to realize they're not "anti"
it. These are the people who threw
bricks and set fires, gleefully destroyed businesses, and brutally assaulted innocent
people who got in their way. They were
the ones waving Soviet flags and burning American ones, in the middle of
American cities. They are the personification
of evil.
Guess which group Kaepernick
identifies with. Not only did he
encourage mob violence in a tweet ("The cries for peace will rain down, and
when they do, they will land on deaf ears"), but his Know Your Rights Camp is
now financing a legal defense fund for "our Freedom Fighters" who were involved
in the riots. Not "our peaceful
demonstrators," mind you, but "fighters" who require a legal defense. Why else would he link this fund to his
children's camps? To someone who's
already brainwashing kids with Communist propaganda, providing material support
to collegiate, left-wing domestic terrorists must have seemed like the next
logical phase of the same mission.
Citizens peacefully exercising their constitutional right to freedom of
assembly don't figure into it.
This is what Colin Kaepernick
is. This is what the NFL has
become. An institution that had been
synonymous with America through most of its existence is now synonymous with
anti-America instead. By endorsing Kaepernick, his beliefs, and his manner of protest, the
league has stated its antipathy toward us and our nation just as surely as if it
had hired Michael Moore as its new commissioner -- which it might as well of done,
for all the difference it would make.
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