>>1. You are offended by black people protesting racism and say people are displaying disrespectful behavior when this has to be repeatedly pointed out to you. Perhaps if you instead of standing up for pledges and anthems you stood up for social justice and humanity you'd garnish more respect from people.

A whopper of a straw man. You've made the point before that I live in NZ, where pledges of allegiance or saluting the flag isn't something we do at all. I've never saluted a flag or pledged national allegiance with hand on heart... though don't you dare disrespect the Haka. ;-) Why would I care if players of a game I don't watch disrespect somebody else's flag?

I responded because you cleave to the virtuous protest part while SHOUTING that the protest does NOT consist of flag disrespect. That's illogical, so I pointed it out.

If I do have an objection, it's that some insist on injecting/hijacking (not just at football games) to place themselves on a moral pedestal... and the corollary that those (forced to) observe are racists or (insert epithet here) unless they clap enthusiastically as if world peace was just achieved.

I'm not particularly keen on deliberate offensiveness behind a fake shield of sanctimony, either. For example, if there were a chatter4me exchange where one particular poster didn't hesitate to disparage others who disagree with him, even after presented with inconvenient facts, I'd be inclined to point that out. I'm not offended personally, I just think systematic willful discourtesy needs to be called out.

Even the staunchest sitter-downer player would agree that you're supposed to play the ball, not the man... or maybe not these days.