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I still don't understand how kneeling is offensive to people?
POLL - Do you support KNEELING?
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I would definitely kneel for MLK.
No, that's not a typo. It's Martin Luther King Jnr.
I'm old enough and cautiously progressive enough to know the difference.
No, that's not a typo. It's Martin Luther King Jnr.
I'm old enough and cautiously progressive enough to know the difference.
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Of course you do, you may not agree with the reasoning but there have been plenty of individuals rationale to oppose kneeling.
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Good post, have never said there should be the right not to (this has always existed) - do find those who are getting offended and angry about the act of kneeling as hypocritical.
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Yep. Criminals in Australia have also been shot by police for possessing a weapon such as a knife and resisting arrest. It's common and good policing to take down the criminal. The reason the left have their knickers in a knot is because they can politicise a black man being shot by a white cop to their advantage.
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NBA season back underway. They solved the racism problem in record time.
Depends. Plenty of the people they are pushing as martyrs are low life crims.
George Floyd is now a martyr but he was a scumbag who left behind victims.
Good peoples lives matter, scumbags lives not so much.
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Possibly, alternatively America might find itself in the situation where some of the highest profile people in world are speaking out very forcefully against injustice in their country which could become very uncomfortable. This was an interesting article from John Amaechi.
Sports stars are held up as role models – until they want to stand up to racism | John Amaechi
US athletes have been criticised for taking principled action over the shooting of Jacob Blake, but they are embracing their power, says former NBA player John Amaechi
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"They" would not have had an issue had the guy not been murdered. That's why he became a martyr.
If he'd just been treated like a random criminal who had committed a crime, brought to justice and put in jail, you would not have seen the reaction it got.
The police were entirely to blame for that incident.
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The guy you're arguing with has spent pages and pages defending a terrorist who illegally acquired an assault rifle and went to a location looking for people to murder.
Best not to bother.
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Black Lives Matter has spent a great deal of time and energy defining what is and is not a racist response to current events. Black lives don’t seem to matter as much when it comes to black victims of black perpetrators, black police officers and black casualties of anarchist violence. Innocent 8 yr old black girl Secoria Turner doesn't mean anything to the BLM agenda! It's a Marxist agenda to dismantle American law and order...
The Police were to blame.
But the Police also did it to a white guy in exact same manner long before Floyd became news.
It's only because Floyd was black that this blew up like it did.
Has it been proven it was racially motivated?
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Not sure why you brought up the police doing the same thing to a white person as some kind of gotcha. That's also wrong - the police are the problem. There should be protests and riots every time the police extra-judiciously murder anyone and are then defended by the State.
It's hard for us to deductively reason if it was racially motivated or not. Have the police officers admitted it was? Probably not and probably never will.
It blew up like it did because the initial response was to back up the police and not to arrest them. One of the motivators of the initial protests were for them all to be brought to justice. It took three days for that to happen, despite there being video footage for the whole world to see. It's the fact that they were presumed to have not done something wrong that triggered it.
You'll see a similar thing kick off if the police officers walk once it goes to court, much like George Zimmerman.
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The point I originally made in regards to the NBA was that their support will last as long as their hip pocket allows. Roughly a day in this case.Possibly, alternatively America might find itself in the situation where some of the highest profile people in world are speaking out very forcefully against injustice in their country which could become very uncomfortable. This was an interesting article from John Amaechi.
Sports stars are held up as role models – until they want to stand up to racism | John Amaechi
US athletes have been criticised for taking principled action over the shooting of Jacob Blake, but they are embracing their power, says former NBA player John Amaechiwww.theguardian.com
Given their fan base in China is infinitely higher than their US base, why not use their platform to call out the disgraceful human rights issues currently going on in China? Oh yeah, money.
Also I think you'll find the average man on the street doesn't feel the need to be lectured to by someone who makes millions of dollars a year by playing a game.
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I highly doubt it'll even be proven it's murder. I'd stay in your homes when the police in question beat these trumped up charges.
Then perhaps the way to unite everyone was to attack the issue by starting a "citizens lives matter" if it's about abuse of Police powers.
Imagine how differently it may have turned out using that angle.
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I'm glad we're in agreement on something!
Well it's not murder, it's manslaughter of some degree.
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They've been charged with murder, to appease the masses. There's a few in this thread calling it an execution, more hysterics.
Reckon the bodycam footage released months after the fact makes it very hard to prove those charges.
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Nope, it was never proven that it was racially motivated. But given it was a white cop and a black victim, systemic racism is the only explanation to the left. They literally don't want to hear any other argument.
The media and left wing groups promote a sick agenda and it has dire consequences, as it brainwashes people who don't have the ability to think for themselves, like this racist.
'AutoZone stabbing suspect “felt the need to find a white male to kill,” police say in court testimony.
Mills told the court that when he Hatchett why he stabbed the AutoZone employee, Hatchett said he “felt the need to find a white male to kill” after watching videos of police brutality happening across the country.'
AutoZone stabbing suspect “felt the need to find a white male to kill,” police say in court testimony
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – The suspect in the Aug. 25 AutoZone stabbing on 32nd Street made his first appearance in court. Jayvon Hatchett, 19, is charged with aggravated assault and possession o…
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If we're lucky we might see some South African sports stars commenting on the horrific murder rates of white farmers in that country, but I won't hold my breath.Possibly, alternatively America might find itself in the situation where some of the highest profile people in world are speaking out very forcefully against injustice in their country which could become very uncomfortable. This was an interesting article from John Amaechi.
Sports stars are held up as role models – until they want to stand up to racism | John Amaechi
US athletes have been criticised for taking principled action over the shooting of Jacob Blake, but they are embracing their power, says former NBA player John Amaechi
it's not kneeling which is the problem, many people have a problem the BLM organisation, and for entirely justifiable reasons. You can support equality without supporting the corrupt BLM organisation, which actually doesn't care about Black people as much as it claims, because it completely ignores all the major problems facing black people and black communities.
Racism is only White on Minority bias, there is no such perception of racism toward the white race. The sad part is this lie is perpetrated by left leaning whites to suit their agenda, be that self flagellation or virtue signalling.
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Exactly. A large portion of Antifa and BLM are paid domestic terrorists. It's videos like the one below that we should be outraged about, but the media don't even care and refuse to report on it. Their primary concern is to keep up the false 'all cops hate black men' narrative and to ensure violence continues on the streets. Never bend a knee for this filth.
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