The national anthem and the patriotism of dissent, a paper written by an author arguing that attempting to raise awareness towards social injustice can be done differently than disrespecting the country and that disrespecting the flag or America is not the way to do it. Through the editorial, this author is ineffective and contradictory in making a point that protesting during the pledge or national anthem is disgraceful.
This author contradicts themselves by going back and forth and being unclear through the editorial on the thesis. In paragraph three they state, “If you want to raise awareness about social injustice, disrespecting the American flag or the national anthem is not the way to do it.” then after stating this, in the fourth paragraph, …show more content…
The author simply would state real examples and just leave it at that, not stating the obvious or explaining why that example was there. “A high school in Worcester, Mass., had planned to suspend a football player who had knelt during the national anthem before a game, but then announced it would not punish the student after realizing he ‘did not violate any school rule when he peacefully and silently protested.’” The author stated this example and concluded the paragraph with that, not going on about what the example provided and what their view was on it. This author also went straight into the introduction of this editorial stating, “San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started it all by sitting during the national anthem at a preseason game to protest the killings of unarmed African-Americans by police.” and went on to explain how other football players have “taken Kaepernicks’s cue.” and “knelt during the anthem; others locking arms.” This author portrayed example after example being unclear about their opinion of each example and whether these players had the right to protest, until later when the author implied the disrespectfulness of this act but later stated how it was quite the opposite; but we already covered
This author contradicts themselves by going back and forth and being unclear through the editorial on the thesis. In paragraph three they state, “If you want to raise awareness about social injustice, disrespecting the American flag or the national anthem is not the way to do it.” then after stating this, in the fourth paragraph, …show more content…
The author simply would state real examples and just leave it at that, not stating the obvious or explaining why that example was there. “A high school in Worcester, Mass., had planned to suspend a football player who had knelt during the national anthem before a game, but then announced it would not punish the student after realizing he ‘did not violate any school rule when he peacefully and silently protested.’” The author stated this example and concluded the paragraph with that, not going on about what the example provided and what their view was on it. This author also went straight into the introduction of this editorial stating, “San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started it all by sitting during the national anthem at a preseason game to protest the killings of unarmed African-Americans by police.” and went on to explain how other football players have “taken Kaepernicks’s cue.” and “knelt during the anthem; others locking arms.” This author portrayed example after example being unclear about their opinion of each example and whether these players had the right to protest, until later when the author implied the disrespectfulness of this act but later stated how it was quite the opposite; but we already covered