Few things rankle me more than naked hypocrisy and empty gestures.
That's the situation happening in Tennessee.
All Republican members of the state senate as well as the lieutenant governor signed a letter sent to the heads of all of the state's public universities and colleges this week, encouraging them to "adopt policies within your respective athletic departments to prohibit any such actions moving forward" after members of the East Tennessee State men's basketball team kneeled during the anthem last week.
These are the same types of legislators who work to strip LGBTQ community of human rights, yet cry "cancel culture" when an actress gets fired for likening U.