S: I'm trying to find a single comment on this post thread that indicates someone actually believes that these players don't have a right to express their opinion via kneeling.
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What many "pro-kneelers" are conflating is the exercise of free expression and a made-up "freedom from consequences."   Two very different, unrelated things.
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NFL players should feel free to kneel out of some hypocritical sense of defiance, just like the NFL should feel free to fire players who disrespect the flag and the nation by kneeling.