Seriously though, it was always going to have to stop eventually, and the important thing was that they kept doing it when there was a backlash from the usual suspects.
Unlike America I didn’t notice any significant backlash to taking the knee at sports events.
I am kinda proud that people by majority agreed with it
Football in general (with some exceptions) does a good job with racism, we never really needed to take knees in the UK. The situation here is quite different to that in the US. Plus taking the knee had too much association with BLM for my liking. Im glad its gone and I expect other campaigns will do the job of tackling racism just fine.
They did a good thing that I am certain made a lot of people reflect when they otherwise never would have. Well done boys, as you were.
Doing it never changed anything and neither will stopping doing it. Was all a bit pointless and performative in the end.
Seems reasonable, given enough repetition a gesture becomes the norm and just another conformity.
Lol were they still bending the knee? What a bunch of berks.
Just in time for the most corrupt World Cup in history
>Players will take the knee during this weekend’s opening games of the season, at dedicated No Room for Racism matches in October and March, Boxing Day fixtures after the World Cup has finished, the last day of the season and the FA and EFL cup finals.
I like this better. It just felt like it was becoming an automatic thing and the meaning was being lost.
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I think they should all wear “pride” arm bands at the world cup. Make a protest in a country with serious human rights issues.
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Institutionalised racism?
Completed it.
I went to a Championship match this week, and our team took the knee, but the opposition didn’t.. except for their goalkeeper. It was a bit odd.
Does this mean we can all have a knees up?
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I think we will reach peak performative activism if the players take a knee against racism in a stadium where thousands of dark skinned workers died building it.
The best thing football can do to tackle racism is to stop being racist. And cat kicking and the sexual assaults but those are different things. But stop all those things and we will be very happy with the progress.
Meh not surprised, it’s lost all impact now really. Even the racists can’t be arsed to boo it anymore
The moment has lost its impact. My side play in the EFL and apparently stopped doing it for the first game of the season and I didn’t even notice nor did anybody else. Most EFL sides don’t do it anymore
Well I’m glad everyone got the fascination with trivial gestures out of their system. I suppose racism got solved then?
I swear these social fashions are like custard. You react too much, it hardens in response – not because they actually believe it’ll do a damned thing, but because people believe other people will believe it.
It was a good PR idea but so played out and v Amercianised with the whole #BLM movement. Yes we struggle with issues here, but black men aren’t being extrajudicially killed in the UK so regularly like in the US – it is a moral show of support none the less, but has been commercialised / social media manufactured seems silly
I hate how we import USA’s issues over here rather than deal with our own? When Chinese / Asian people were being targeetted all across the UK 2-3 years ago, nothing happened.
South Asians are one of the biggest demographics in the UK, still receive abject racial abuse, but it’s never spoken about as ‘they are the good ones’
Ozil gestured to stop the Chinese persecution of Uighur people – was told to not be political. What is this then?
And of course the litanty of crimes against the Afro Carribean community i.e Windrush
Not to mention a world cup being built on corruption, murder, death and blood. How many have died, lost families for this spectacle? This anti slavery gesture surely goes against the slaves being used for the WC!
Why don’t we focus on our own issues, and drive actual changes, rather than importing a gesture something because it is trendy, commercial and on social media? The whole things just seemed like corporations putting Pride on their logo for Pride Month. Plastic, fake and not driving impact.
It was idiotic to start with.
it was becoming a chore/token gesture that had really lost it meaning because it was done too much, in racist shitholes like Hungary England should always take the knee
Millwall’s feelings must’ve been really hurt
Like seriously who gives a fuck. As if it made a difference.
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Great, racism has been defeated! /s
Seriously though, it was always going to have to stop eventually, and the important thing was that they kept doing it when there was a backlash from the usual suspects.
Unlike America I didn’t notice any significant backlash to taking the knee at sports events.
I am kinda proud that people by majority agreed with it
Football in general (with some exceptions) does a good job with racism, we never really needed to take knees in the UK. The situation here is quite different to that in the US. Plus taking the knee had too much association with BLM for my liking. Im glad its gone and I expect other campaigns will do the job of tackling racism just fine.
They did a good thing that I am certain made a lot of people reflect when they otherwise never would have. Well done boys, as you were.
Doing it never changed anything and neither will stopping doing it. Was all a bit pointless and performative in the end.
Seems reasonable, given enough repetition a gesture becomes the norm and just another conformity.
Lol were they still bending the knee? What a bunch of berks.
Just in time for the most corrupt World Cup in history
>Players will take the knee during this weekend’s opening games of the season, at dedicated No Room for Racism matches in October and March, Boxing Day fixtures after the World Cup has finished, the last day of the season and the FA and EFL cup finals.
I like this better. It just felt like it was becoming an automatic thing and the meaning was being lost.
[deleted]
I think they should all wear “pride” arm bands at the world cup. Make a protest in a country with serious human rights issues.
[removed]
Institutionalised racism?
Completed it.
I went to a Championship match this week, and our team took the knee, but the opposition didn’t.. except for their goalkeeper. It was a bit odd.
Does this mean we can all have a knees up?
[deleted]
I think we will reach peak performative activism if the players take a knee against racism in a stadium where thousands of dark skinned workers died building it.
The best thing football can do to tackle racism is to stop being racist. And cat kicking and the sexual assaults but those are different things. But stop all those things and we will be very happy with the progress.
Meh not surprised, it’s lost all impact now really. Even the racists can’t be arsed to boo it anymore
The moment has lost its impact. My side play in the EFL and apparently stopped doing it for the first game of the season and I didn’t even notice nor did anybody else. Most EFL sides don’t do it anymore
Well I’m glad everyone got the fascination with trivial gestures out of their system. I suppose racism got solved then?
I swear these social fashions are like custard. You react too much, it hardens in response – not because they actually believe it’ll do a damned thing, but because people believe other people will believe it.
It was a good PR idea but so played out and v Amercianised with the whole #BLM movement. Yes we struggle with issues here, but black men aren’t being extrajudicially killed in the UK so regularly like in the US – it is a moral show of support none the less, but has been commercialised / social media manufactured seems silly
I hate how we import USA’s issues over here rather than deal with our own? When Chinese / Asian people were being targeetted all across the UK 2-3 years ago, nothing happened.
South Asians are one of the biggest demographics in the UK, still receive abject racial abuse, but it’s never spoken about as ‘they are the good ones’
Ozil gestured to stop the Chinese persecution of Uighur people – was told to not be political. What is this then?
And of course the litanty of crimes against the Afro Carribean community i.e Windrush
Not to mention a world cup being built on corruption, murder, death and blood. How many have died, lost families for this spectacle? This anti slavery gesture surely goes against the slaves being used for the WC!
Why don’t we focus on our own issues, and drive actual changes, rather than importing a gesture something because it is trendy, commercial and on social media? The whole things just seemed like corporations putting Pride on their logo for Pride Month. Plastic, fake and not driving impact.
It was idiotic to start with.
it was becoming a chore/token gesture that had really lost it meaning because it was done too much, in racist shitholes like Hungary England should always take the knee
Millwall’s feelings must’ve been really hurt
Like seriously who gives a fuck. As if it made a difference.