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mahatmakanejeeves

(62,799 posts)
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 06:52 PM Oct 2018

The people upset by demonstrations on Capitol Hill are incensed by a kneeling athlete. [View all]

In evaluating the arguments that the current anti-Kavanaugh protests are outrageous and unhinged and demonstrate untrustworthiness of an entire party, bear in mind the people saying that are incensed by an athlete kneeling during the national anthem.



This isn’t a new thing. Describing even relatively restrained protest as unhinged, violent, etc. is a traditional American practice.

I mean.


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