Booing the knee *Mod Note in Post 1232 and OP*

Do you believe a person cannot campaign on a social issue unless they campaign for all social issues?

The difference with Muhammad Ali was that what he did wasn't symbolic or tokenistic in any way, he was actively resisting the draft.

Wouldn't expect that from anyone, he's going above and beyond the call of duty, fair play to him.

Stop taking the knee, it's inextricably linked to BLM.

The only thing unfortunate is about players taking the knee is racists deliberately misunderstanding why they are doing it. The England players, the England manager and the English FA have all been very clear on why they kneel against racial inequality and discrimination. But the racists dont like black people taking a stand so instead they prefer to engage in some mental gymnastics of how multi millionaire footballers are really BLM linked Marxists who want a new world order. You'd want to be bat sh1t crazy to believe the conspiracy theory that professional footballers are really kneeling because they want to see the end of capitalism.

As for taking the knee itself the action has been documented to originate with slavery more than 200 years ago. BLM do not and never had any ownership of the action, nobody does. They may have appropriated after the murder of George Floyd in 2020 but that was four years after after another sportsman Colin Kaepernick brought it into the sporting arena when he led a lone protest against the racism he faced in his sport and his life. He was blackballed and lost his NFL career over that, for merely exercising his constitutional right. He was also booed by the crowd just as the England players have been.

At the end of the day its the England players protest and they get to decide what the reasons that theyre protesting because they're the ones literally facing racist abuse online as we saw last summer when the black players were racially abused by thousands of online users for missing a penalty. They've been clear on their reasons why they do it enough times now for even the dumbest of numbskulls to get it. But racists dont want to get it becasue they dont like black people standing up for equality and the right not to be racially abused. Instead they'd prefer believe conspiracy theories about how black people really want to rise up and take over the world, they will perform any amount of mental gynnastics to try to link it to Marxism becasue it suits their racist agenda. If racists really want to believe those bat sh1t crazy ideas despite how clear the England squad have been then let them at it but they're not welcome in football. And its great to see some of these people are now on the end of lifetime stadium bans and criminal convictions. More of this please until we get the racists out of the sport that millions of normal people around the world love.

You'll note he said the Black lives matter movement and not the political organisation of the same name.

The Queen of England also came out this morning and says she supports the Black Lives Matter movement but she made no mention of the political organisation. The last time I checked a billionaire queen is not a Marxist so how do you square that circle? Do you actually think the Queen and a bunch of multi millionaire footballers are now Marxists? What is your evidence for that because all I see is a conspiracy theory that is spread by far right racists to push their agenda of hate and white supremecy.

If it is true you'll have no problem posting up the evidence to link the Queen and the England team to Marxism, it will be easy to show quotes where they said they are full square behind the BLM political organisation in the US and not talking about a movement that fights for racial equality.

Would you begrudge anyone getting rich of their grift? I remember Bernie used to give out about "Millionaires and Billionaires" until he became one so now he only gives out about Billionaires