Taking the Knee

[mickd1961]

With respect, that's not really a specific reason. I want to understand the nuts and bolts of it. Is being fed up of something a valid reason to be so vehemently against it?

It’s having agendas rammed down your throat all the time.

It seems that there always has to be a “cause” these days, one minute it’s the foetus on a stick Greta Thunberg telling us we’ve ruined the world for her generation......whilst travelling the world on jets, using mobile devices and tablets that have components mined by 5 year olds in some god forsaken Hell hole and her completely missing the irony to players being forced to take the knee for fear of the backlash for not doing so.


Take the climate change stuff for example, I get it but I don’t need to hear zealots like little Miss Happy ranting at me about it.

I consume little, I rarely buy new clothes and I change my car only every 4-5 years and the last two have both been electric hybrids, I love being in pure electric mode, it feels clean as well as fast and quiet.

I can’t wait for the BMW MNext X5 hydrogen to come out in 2022-2033......I’ll be one of the first in the queue.

My view was changed by sensible debate and by listening to the American former presidential runner ( forget his name ) and his film “The Uncomfortable Truth ( I think? ) probably 15+ years ago.

I don’t need a 14 year old talking down to me, my parent and to my grandparents ( who made the world a safer non Nazi place for her to live in ) and hearing her say we’d all “stolen her future”.

BLM is a racist, anti white organisation, they’d eradicate us whites if they were given the chance, they spout on about tearing down the police etc ( so I gather? )

Taking the knee is a political statement, I don’t go to football to have political agendas stuffed down my throat.

“ Kick it out “ is a perfectly worthy “partner” for football, we don’t need players kneeling every week.

I’d have less problem with it if it was personal choice, if 10 of the squad were doing it on match day and 8 were not then I could be accepting of that albeit I still don’t like the political agenda part of it.

I think a lot of people on here and in conversations I’ve had generally feel the same, the dislike of the knee is the fact that we all know of the backlash to those who would choose not to do it.

We even have certain black players choosing not to do it, I have massive respect for these guys.

I’ve always lived my life based on how people treat me, I treat people as they treat me, I’ve met some horrible white people and I’ve met some horrible black and Asian people, I’ve also met a lot of lovely white people and equally lovely black and Asian people, I have a few Asian friends who are smashing human beings.

Players taking a knee will have absolutely zero effect on how I treat anybody, I start from a position of mutual respect with everyone I meet.

A racist of either colour is likely to remain a racist in my opinion, sad but true.