re: #212 HappyWarrior

You don’t have to like what Colin Kaepernick has done. But it’s shady as shit to me to question his love of country. A true patriot questions his country and doesn’t blindly accept the status quo.

TNC had a post a few years back about “true” patriotism and love of country;

paraphrased:

You love your parents, right? Everybody loves their parents. But if one of them’s an alcoholic, or if one of them regularly beats the crap out of the other one, you have an intervention. You tell them what’s wrong with them, how it affects you, you encourage and support their efforts at improvement. When you point out their problems and give them shit about it, it doesn’t mean you don’t love them. You’re doing it because you love them, and you want them to be better.