midnight_rendezvous
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No not at all, of course I understand the original sentiments of BLM but sadly its been hijacked by trained Marxists /political extremists, and that for me is a no no, it's about time the FA put a stop to all this posturing
Regards
DF
If I may, I’m going to paraphrase a rather good tweet I saw earlier...
Every time there is greater public focus on the fight against racial discrimination, there is always a backlash. Of course, racists rarely admit they are racists - they try to hide their backlash under a seemingly respectable cloak. The cloak this time is that the gesture of ‘taking the knee’ is really in support of some political movements associated with the Black Lives Matter slogan and this is mischievously portrayed as a political disagreement. This is complete and utter nonsense.
All political parties are grand coalitions of people with different views on different issues. Some Conservatives are islamophobic. Some Labour members are anti-semites. Some Brexit party members and supporters are xenophobic. We do not tar those entire parties with the views of the fringes.
BLM is a movement not a party. It is an even bigger coalition of millions globally across political divides united by a single human rights ambition: to end racial discrimination. Of course there will be some in that movement with fringe political views on other issues.
As I said earlier, to focus on those fringe views is to seek to add a cloak of respectability to opposing a gesture of racial unity. Doing so is wilfully obtuse and disingenuous.
But yeah, those pesky Marxists, eh?