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It's true - most @NFL players aren't protesting the National Anthem. They are protesting injustice & police brutality.
But I took a much deeper dive into the life of Francis Scott Key & the National Anthem - AND...I am protesting the anthem.https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/national-anthem-meaning-colin-kaepernick/ …
Ask yourself this question. If a Nazi wrote a great song, would you overlook his Naziism because you loved the song? What if a 9/11 hijacker was also a great photographer, would you buy a book of his wonderful photos? That's Francis Scott Key to me.https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/national-anthem-meaning-colin-kaepernick/ …
It's one thing to cherish their art. I could care less about artists' personal lives. But it's another thing for that art to be a symbol for a nation and a moral compass in any way, shape, or form, despite the original lyrics OF said art and morals of its creator.
I think your argument here would be much stronger if you focused primarily on the particular piece of art in general and not widening it to the artist. You have a much stronger, "If you heard a song that celebrity Nazis but was beautiful, would you buy it" argument staring at you
Wagner’s music is banned in Israel because a) he was super anti-Semitic (though he lived way before WW2) and b) the Nazis used many of his pieces as anthems; and yet there are ppl in Israel who are direct descendants of holocaust survivors who love and privately play his music...
FTR, Wagner is not formally or legally banned in Israel. Performers have simply chosen for obvious reasons to not play him. Recently there has movement to rethink this. 1/2
Or, if a Nazi wrote a beautiful song, but the 3rd Stanza was actually glorifying the Holocaust, would it still be a beautiful song worthy of a NATIONAL ANTHEM? I say, HELL NO!
Does this mean that we have to give up the constitution? Do we close all the universities founded by slave owners? I’m just trying to find where the line gets drawn.
Further constitutional conventions ought to have happened by now. One might at least concede for whose benefit the Constitution was written, that, accordingly, our institutions reproduce(d) inequities, that "originalist" readings can be... inappropriate.
The national anthem should be whatever Aretha Franklin song we feel like that day.
Credit due to @GregProops for this one
I’m with you man
@GetUpStandUp2 @theintercept The age-old dilemma of separating artist from art.
Agree 10000000%. Thanks for posting and sharing.
Nicely framed
I don't think there's any cost to enjoying a terrible person's art/work, but I draw the line at financial support. So, for ex., I wouldn't buy a Louis C.K. or Chris Brown album - because it would help them directly.
THIS!!!!!!!!!
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