I read a readers comment on an ESPN article

[Proud liberal 80]

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That said that the players and liberals were communists for their protests. God these people are so ignorant. They don’t even realize that forcing someone to stand for a Country’s anthem is the epitome of communism

[Soxfan58]

1. Or the freedom to peacefully protest.

[Lotusflower70]

3. Willfully ignorant and hostile

That's the thing, they don't care. They want to make people do what they want. They want people to fall in line and not disagree with their world view. They only care about their version of freedom and patriotism.

[Johonny]

2. Typically they're also racist in ugly, ugly ways :(

Thanks to Trump they don't even hide it anymore. America has gotten less tolerant, more openly hateful. It will be his lasting memory of his presidency. It's already written in the stars. He will be the president of hate.

[Hortensis]

4. Epitome of fascism, which whiffs from some on the right with every breeze these days.

If only they knew. For dangerously many, they're both just scary words to paint Democrats with.

Mussolini:

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . .

Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

[DK504]

5. "Liberal communists" LOL

No such animal. Communists are in a forced political state and have no say in the matter. They are not allowed to comment or change the circumstances of their government, not very "liberal". What an idiot.

[HopeAgain]

6. Huh?

Umm... nevermind.