No, what makes this country great, is that he can do it. Actually doing it does not make the country great. It insults the country.
No, it insults you. You are not the country.
You are not the country either.
I’m not insulted, so your response makes no sense.
Actually, it does.
How I interpret it is this: There is a difference between an insult to the country as an entity and an insult to the collective citizens of the country.
Warbler might himself be offended, yes, but he feels offended on behalf of the country as an entity, as though the dignity of that entity is something that should be protected and/or respected.
He’s not saying that man is insulting everyone and their dog who collectively live in the country. And by his saying that you, Frink, are not the country, he’s saying that you can’t speak directly for the entity that is the country when you say you’re not offended because your personal dignity is not akin to that of respecting the country itself.
Ok well then he can’t speak for the entity that is the country either. His belief that it insults the country is only one interpretation of the action, and in my opinion a very closed-minded interpretation. He doesn’t seem to understand that these people aren’t protesting the anthem, they’re protesting the treatment of black people by the institutions that are part of the country.
and they are doing so by protesting the anthem. We might as well say that Westboro bapists weren’t protesting funerals, they were protesting gay rights.