While I was downtown on Saturday I saw an elderly man (five or so years older than me, mid- to late 70s) shuffling along in a t-shirt that said:
I STAND for the Flag
I KNEEL for the Fallen
So he kneels for Satan, the Fallen Angel? Or maybe he wants
to insult our Fallen Heroes, because kneeling is an insult according to
the racist Right? Yeah, I know, the meanings of kneeling and standing are variable and context-dependent. It's the racist Right that overlooks this, but that's not really it either: the racist Right deliberately chooses to ignore what kneeling athletes were saying. No surprise there.
That leaves aside the fact that Colin Kaepernick and other
athletes are kneeling for the fallen: George Floyd, Michael Brown, so many more. The elderly vet doesn't care about them, of course. My question is not whether to mock people like him; it's how to mock them the most effectively.
