re: Should Rapinoe continue to receive USWNT call ups?

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You realize those two things are tied together, right? Your personal freedoms and those symbols?

Without those symbols (i.e. what the symbols represent), your personal freedoms in all likelihood don't exist.

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You're the second person to imply that a piece of cloth is the same as the rights of citizens. It's just a stupid ridiculous argument.


"If she really wants to make a statement she should quit the team and say she can no longer represent such a terrible country on the world stage. "

I don't understand why people think what she did was unpatriotic. If anything it's more patriotic to speak up and want whats best for a country, then to burry your head in the sand and pretend whats happening to citizens is just fine.