Hammertime wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 2:30 pm
h69 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:39 am
You can make that point over and over AGAIN if you want but it is still bollocks. I dont
choose to make it about the UK, last time I looked the sport was based in England, A country that does not have a systemic race problem. If your country has an issue then knock yourself out and kneel to the black people and apologise for being racist. Noone is stopping you but it has not place in sport here.
I don't feel the game is for the UK only, I just don't believe that sport should be used as propaganda for a bullshit movement. In the UK, BLM is just an anti-capitalist movement designed to destabilise the govt. They give no fucking shit about peoples lives and the biggest killer of black people here is black people.
Much of what you wrote would be credible if you had not used the words 'most oppressed on the planet'. What utter bollocks.
Who the fuck are the premier league to decide who to support and who not to ? They moan about players having political statements on their T shirts yet when they decide to Virtue Signal, we have to put up with it ?
If you are talking about millionaire oppressed but still got to the top of his profession Colin Kapaernick then too fucking bad. He chose to disrespect the country's anthem and flag as did a colleague of his who has actually managed to get a team despite whining he couldn't because it was all racist....so it clearly is not. If he wants to make a statement so be it but that is a US sport and it was about racism in the US.
We do not live in America and this BLM nonsense has put race relations back about 20 years here when this city is one of the most cosmopolitan in the world.
Let me ask you a question, why dont the PL have 'free Hong Kong Students' on their backs. The ones being murdered by the Chinese State. I am pretty sure that the people of Hong Kong watch the PL....but no, not fucking oppressed enough clearly.
So because we can't list all the injustices in the world we should abandon this one? How many players of Chinese descent play in the Premier League pray tell? There are but a few genocides that have occurred and are traceable in our lifetime and the slave trade to the new world has resonated for over 400 years and the oppression continues to this day. When a white-adopted, college educated, NFL paid millionaire decides to take a knee to point out the incredible disparity in the treatment by law enforcement to POC, he loses his career and never plays in the NFL again. Despite this "Jesus-like" sacrifice he makes (that really gets the goat of southern racists here) he is deemed as unpatriotic and disrespectful of the flag (add to this he was encouraged by a veteran mate of his to take the knee rather than just sit it out as this is what they do to the caskets of the fallen when they come home). And yet he still has your backward interpretation of his motives from your side of the Atlantic. Well, that makes your standpoint obvious and I'm sorry the confederacy lost and that the UK offered amnesty to the former colonists who wanted to emigrate and that you have to watch their offspring play this game. Must be hard for you.
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise that because we don't have any Chinese players it is not important. There goes any morality to the protests. We have white people playing but its racist to say white lives matter. I guess you have to be black to speak then.
Amazing how none of this mob can fucking tell the difference between now and hundreds of years ago. Ok if you want to go down the history path
Shall we start with the Romans ? White slaves built half this country......nope not oppressed enough
Ok lets go with the Jews. 6m murdered in the holocaust....no. not oppressed enough
What about Stalin or Mao ? No not oppressed enough.
Or are they not dark enough
'My side of the Atlantic ?' I thought it was a global game or am I not allowed to have an opinion on Kapearnick ? You have Kapaernick, we have multimillionaire oppressed tax dodger Hamilton.....same thing.
So many double standards.
Do what you want in the US and in the NFL but I would rather English sport stays politics free. Half these BLM morons in the UK probably could not find The USA on a map let alone Minnesota.
Exactly where is the oppression in the UK? This is an anti capitalist protest no more no less. I guess the XR brigade had nowhere to go.
I assume you are the person that wrote the post condemning all of us as racists. If not then apologies but if so....
I for one am sick of being called racist because I don't buy into the bullshit kneeling and black lives matter campaign which struggles to make a case in the UK in 2020 so basically goes right through history looking for things to be offended by.
My ancestors are not even English and there are plenty of nationalities I could get upset with on their behalf but I have the intelligence to realise 2020 is not 1970 or indeed 1870.
The US is a different country and you celebrate independence every year so be independent and leave us out of your race war.