Standing for the anthem is the same thing as "fighting" for the social ideals of justice, equality, and freedom?   Nah.    That's not true.  If that were true, we would be a far more egalitarian, more just, and more free people, and that is the truth.  We've been standing for our "ideals" for a long time already.

But putting your reputation, your job, your career, and the potential loss of millions of dollars in income, at risk for your beliefs is something else altogether.   That is real risk, like a real fight is a real risk of getting hurt.

I don't stand for the anthem, I don't pledge allegiance, and I don't think America is the greatest country on earth.   I think America was built on genocide, land theft, and slavery that endured for CENTURIES, and I include legal segregationist Jim Crow laws in that, meaning that real economic slavery actually only started ending with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s, when I was a teenager.

Someone should do something other than stand.