"Anyway, I was thinking about this in the case of Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback currently employed by the 49ers but expected by many to be released (ie fired) in the coming weeks. Last weekend he stirred up controversy when he refused to stand for the national anthem to protest treatment of blacks in America. Personally, I barely noticed, as I am not a big fan of enforced loyalty oaths and patriotic rituals, finding these to historically be markers of unfree societies. For these sorts of rituals to have any meaning at all, they have to be voluntary, which means that Kaepernick has every right to not participate, and everyone else has every right to criticize him for doing so, and I have the right to ignore it all as tedious virtue-signalling."
-Warren Meyer, as excerpted from here
While we are touching the subject, another interesting column on standing for the National Anthem may be found here
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