This is the line Republicans always use to ironically to shut you up. In order for you to respect the US for giving you the right to say "it", you have to exercise by not saying it. The Marine I've talked about in this forum that I get into heated arguments with always uses this tactic that in order me to respect America, I have to not exercise my rights. He's brought in the loyalty card that whites like to bring up against Asians. He asked me once who's side was I on in debating him? He just wanted me to shut up because i was running circles around him because it is a sore spot for other Asians. I know that he can do nothing about it but to another Asian, they think all whites have this power to punish like take away your green card or citizenship. I know better. What was my answer to him questioning my loyalty? I said, "I certainly don't side with a white supremacist". He blew his lid after I said that and he made the mistake of rattling off a list of things he said he and his family have done to fight against racism in the past to counter me. He said stuff like he fought against Japanese internment... back in the 1940s? I'm surprised he didn't mention how he march with Martin Luther King when he wasn't much older than me. I wasn't even alive when he was assassinated. I said after his list, "Why don't you stop wasting time and just say you had a black friend once?" Nothing he said where I couldn't counter so that's when he threatened violence on me. Then I said without a beat, "You kill me and you go to jail for murder. I kill you for trying... It's called self-defense." Every step of the way was about getting me to shut up. It didn't work and after words he just kept repeating that I should stop or else... That's how you handle whites. Did I say anything wrong where it was my fault. No. So no one should be offended unless you're a racist.