🧩 BND Motif Index · M1036
Taking a knee
Athletes sit out, kneel or turn away during the anthem, and the protest becomes the fight: disrespect to the flag, or a stand for justice.
- 6claims filed under it
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Defiling the sacred
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes LeBron James over national anthem behavior 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-25
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “WNBA players are violating their contracts by refusing to be on the court for the national anthem.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “WNBA players are refusing to be on the court for the national anthem.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump criticized LeBron James for his behavior during the national anthem.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “LeBron James disrespects the country by practicing a golf swing during the national anthem.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “LeBron James is causing the NBA to decline because of his attitude.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words - 2026-10-22 “WNBA players refuse to come onto the court for the national anthem.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast)
M1036 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works