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I fail to understand why people are so bothered whether they do it or not? Each to their own and it’s no sweat of my arse whether a player choses to take part or not. Live and let live!
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As a white, middle-aged football fan who has never experienced racism directed towards my ethnicity nor heritage, I will never truly understand what those affected by racism and inequality have experienced.
I am totally against racism, and support 100% any gesture or action that brings it to the attention of the wider public. If a player chooses to take a knee to express their disgust at racism then I will support them without a second thought.
Sadly you only need to look at social media to realise that racism is still alive, and in some corners, thriving. If taking a knee keeps it in the public eye then I am all for it. After all, it only truly offends those who are offended by anti-racism, and you know what that makes them!
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A trained Marxist eh WG, is that where students have to jump through red hoops covered in gold stars shouting ” viva la revolution “? FFS, millionaire footballers have nothing in common with Marxism and are voluntarily taking the knee to highlight racism within football and all aspects of life for that matter. If people are booing because they are sick of seeing it well maybe we should boo the National anthem before internationals, plenty of people are sick of hearing that but they just get on with it and still support the England team. All this booing for ten seconds knee taking before a game is bollocks when you consider all the other stuff we routinely put up with without booing before games.
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“Trained Marxist”?
Lenin en-route from Switzerland to Russia?
They don’t half come up with some daft stuff!
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Topics: 4Patrisse Cullors created the hashtag, which is what the bulk of BLM is. The actual organisation will number far less than the people protesting. I doubt that everyone going to protests is part of some mass conspiracy to convert everyone to Marxism. Especially not footballers. Most are just bothered about racism.
Socialists appear at every protest, if it’s left wing inclined, and say stuff like Patrisse. It is a tactic they use to gain sympathy; if they go to a righteous cause people may think they’re good. Does this sully anything remotely left wing because the SWP and associated groups latch themselves on? So does this mean that protests against the Iraq war, student loans increases, gay rights, women’s rights, for the NHS and against spending cuts are/were actually for Marxist indoctrination instead? If so, why haven’t the far left groups like the SWP seen any kind of mass support in the many years they have been dallying around protests like a bad smell? Heck, the Iraq War protests were organised by SWP and CPGB types, yet no socialist revolution beckoned.
It could be that most who go to such protests do so out of solidarity for what it represents. The socialists often push themselves to the front, because they’re politically organised, but few in number. I don’t see why this should take away from the message; racism doesn’t become a non-issue because socialists get involved.
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