And most of the answers below are case in point for your post...Sadly. But par for the course for this forum.

Many consider both disrespectful, although burning has been considered a protected form of speech. However, wearing of the flag, I'm not so sure about that one.

https://www.senate.gov/...rces/pdf/RL30243.pdf
The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.

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If you look at what Kap said about it, he told you his point was to disrespect the flag and country...that is why he did it. His intention was to basically say "screw this country because you let cops abuse minorities and other stuff." The merits of his opinion surely need to be discussed, but way he did it was intentionally to disrespect and throw dirt on the flag, the country and the military ( as the flag is seen as the military). It got the attention he wanted and he now he has to live with it. But to claim he didn't disrespect the flag or the US in doing so is simply to put on blinders and not look at his own words.

Please refrence where he either said this or implied it. I have not seen anything like that except falsly attributed by racist comentators masquarading behind a thin veneer of conservatism.

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Well, GQ has a history of putting class acts on their cover, so ...

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. Then he wore a t-shirt to his press conference glorifying Fidel Castro.

So fuck off.

Really? Wearing socks depicting cops as pigs didn’t clue you in? I suppose everyone has their heros.

I'm sure you have some fine qualities but smarts is not one of them. To make the jump from 'not going to show pride' to 'disrespect the flag' to 'screw this country' takes some serious hysterics. Try making an attempt to understand what is being said, and why instead of parroting morons with an agenda. Kaep protest are against the flag the same way the Bostonite's protest was against tea.

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I don't think the American revolutionaries cried like little innocent biatches, and tried to claim they weren't disrespecting anything. "But, but, but, people throw tea in the water all the time! What are you Brits so upset about? Gosh, it takes hysterics to find anything disprespectful about that!" They weren't so foolish.

Also, I see that you haven't dealt with Fidel Castro on Kaep's shirt. Fidel Castro knows all about oppressing people. But that's OK because he's a traditional enemy of America, and hell yes to that symbolism.

Guffaw you are a sad troll. You'd rather assume your fellow Americans are racists than use your brain to consider the evidence in front of you. Honestly I see ill will on your part here. As someone who's tired of being called a racist by unthinking dipshits like you -- go fuck yourself, again.

To me, GQ's action is contradictory on its face, since the entire point of the Kapernick's escapade is to repudiate his citizenship.

Also, in looking at past GQ covers and events it seems the magazine indeed has discerning taste and unerring judgement. ;-)

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You need to go find a mirror, my friend.

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If he's not going to show, or does not have, pride in the flag and the country what are his feelings? Merriam-Webster provides a list of antonyms for pride and they're not positive: discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, shame

Whether its driven out of fear or hubris, there are always those that will have stood on the wrong the side of history. Take solace in the fact that 30 years from now when this issue is brought up in history books, you and those that thought like you, will only be remembered as the faceless mass that opposed the right thing.

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