Matters came to a head during the warm-up matches for Euro 2020 in June 2021. For the best part of a year, Premier League footballers had been ‘taking the knee’ in support of BLM before matches. It was always a gesture that was going to irritate a lot of fans –
not because they are racist, but because they don’t want to be lectured to by multimillionaires implying that they are racist, and because they had come to learn that BLM was not the noble anti-racist group the media had led us to believe it was.
Originally Posted by great_fire
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