Protests and Riots Thread

[Redondo]

Bill Maher throws penalty flag at NFL over two national anthems

"Real Time" host Bill Maher blasted the NFL for playing two national anthems at Thursday night's season kickoff game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys. 

Maher began the show's panel discussion Friday night on the subject of education in America and how college campuses and classrooms have become a "social justice factory," listing several instances across the country of teachers resigning because they've felt more like "political activists" than actual educators, with one saying it's "pitting students against each other based on the color of their skin."

"To me, when people say to me sometimes, like, ‘Boy, you really go after the left these days. Why?’ Because you're embarrassing me," Maher exclaimed. "That's why I'm going after the left in a way you never did before. Because you're inverting things that I- I'm not going to give up on being liberal! This is what these teachers are talking about. You're taking children and making them hyper-aware of race in a way they wouldn't otherwise be!" 

He continued, "I saw last night on the football game, Alicia Keys sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,' which now I hear is called the Black national anthem. Now, maybe we should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have one national anthem. I think when you go down a road where you're having two different national anthems, colleges sometimes now have … many of them have different graduation ceremonies for Black and White, separate dorms -- this is what I mean! Segregation! You've inverted the idea. We're going back to that under a different name."

[tdawg87]

I think we should have 0 national anthems.

[Taylor]

10 hours ago, Blarg said:

They didn't go on strike. 

Right. They quit.

[Jason]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

I think we should have 0 national anthems.

Why?

[Taylor]

Just now, Jason said:

Why?

It's annoying when I'm in line at the concessions stand and everything has to pause because of the nAtIoNaL AnThEm. Patriotism is annoying.

[Jason]

Just now, Taylor said:

It's annoying when I'm in line at the concessions stand and everything has to pause because of the nAtIoNaL AnThEm. Patriotism is annoying.

Then you don’t have to be patriotic. Sing a different song 

[Kotchman]

3 minutes ago, Taylor said:

It's annoying when I'm in line at the concessions stand and everything has to pause because of the nAtIoNaL AnThEm. Patriotism is annoying.

Storming the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima was a little inconvenient for those who served. 

[Crampknees]

20 minutes ago, Jason said:

Then you don’t have to be patriotic. Sing a different song 

Meanwhile at the concession stand as the anthem was playing

[Lou]

25 minutes ago, Taylor said:

It's annoying when I'm in line at the concessions stand and everything has to pause because of the nAtIoNaL AnThEm. Patriotism is annoying.

I cut the line when the patriots have their backs turned. 

[Lou]

25 minutes ago, Jason said:

Then you don’t have to be patriotic. Sing a different song 

I sing Steal My Sunshine by Len. 

[Lou]

15 minutes ago, cals said:

The worst is when the blue hairs won’t let you get on the escalator during the National anthem. (I know @Lou, you have no idea what I’m talking about).

None. 

[Kotchman]

 

[Taylor]

35 minutes ago, Lou said:

I cut the line when the patriots have their backs turned. 

 

 

On 2/5/2019 at 9:49 AM, Taylor said:

Stealths fly over the crowd

The sound is awfully loud

Blarg gets MAGA and cheers 

Lou gets up for more beer

 

[Taylor]

30 minutes ago, cals said:

The worst is when the blue hairs won’t let you get on the escalator during the National anthem. (I know @Lou, you have no idea what I’m talking about).

You have to ride the escalators to get to your seat? Peasant.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

You have to ride the escalators to get to your seat? Peasant.

Wait, he was talking about a stadium? Escalators? 

I'm lost. 

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Why?

Because it's pointless.

[Kotchman]

10 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Because it's pointless.

So is eating 6 hotdogs 

[tdawg87]

Just now, Kotchman said:

So is eating 6 hotdogs 

Hotdogs are gross.

[Kotchman]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

Hotdogs are gross.

Vegetable chips?

[Redondo]

 

Have to like the broken tail light and license plate

[arch stanton]

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

 

Have to like the broken tail light and license plate

Where the hell is Mennisota?

[Redondo]

41 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

Where the hell is Mennisota?

I was wondering also

Must be something we aren't knowing

[Adam]

The team mom on my daughters fall softball team is pretty hood. 

[Lou]

11 minutes ago, Adam said:

The team mom on my daughters fall softball team is pretty hood. 

Isn't your daughter like 3-years old? 

[Adam]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

Isn't your daughter like 3-years old? 

Turned 6 yesterday