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Hickson9 said:
Linking all of this back to Everton, if you were lucky enough to get a ticket for a Goodison match, would you boo our players taking the knee against racial inequality?

I seriously hope not.
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But would you boo them for NOT taking a knee? e.g. if a player just stood there during ‘the knee’, would they deserve criticism, or not?
 
Hickson9 said:
Linking all of this back to Everton, if you were lucky enough to get a ticket for a Goodison match, would you boo our players taking the knee against racial inequality?

I seriously hope not.
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No, they are well-intentioned.

But I do dislike it more as time goes on especially as it now seems to be a permanent thing.

BLM, let's not forget came about around the time that the BAME community was demanding (media) investigations into why blacks and Asians were being disproportionately affected by COVID and dying in record numbers.

Did this same media (aside from maybe Piers Morgan) who want to portray themselves as highly moralistic individuals when it comes to issues like booing, hold our own government to account for its despicable criminal negligence when our own people were dying, or disproportionate amounts of BAME doctors and nurses were dying? What did/will they do about that?

Sod all basically, but we're sending our love down the well!



While black people are/were actually dying these media cretins who call themselves left-wing (and they really are not) get up in arms about a bunch of football fans booing a political gesture at a game of football!

To be honest, I also hated the clap for the NHS stuff!

You may say what a monster, but the truth is it angered me. As with taking the knee, not because of the gesture itself, or the target of the gesture (nurses/doctors, etc) but because of how it was politicized in a similar manner.

It was, in my eyes, nothing but empty and cynical propaganda aimed at deluding people into believing our government actually cared when the truth was our government and the supine cowardly media forces that support and enable it (with their divide and conquer antagonistic identity politics) utterly betrayed the UK and its citizens. Nobody was or will be held to account.

Taking the knee is an utterly empty gesture, that for me, only typifies the disgusting hypocrisy of our media and the insidious powers that control it.

I know that the players mean well of course and wouldn't boo them myself but I watch football to forget about politics not to be reminded of the tiresome far left/right narrative. It is divisive in itself IMO.

And black lives do matter. But I didn't need to be told that anyway!
 
Tramps_mate said:
They can do as they please either way. The knee thing does annoy me a bit now though on the basis that I think it kills all the atmosphere built up for a kick off..
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a) There have barely been any fans in any of the games where players have been taking the knee so there won't have been any atmosphere

b) It takes about 10 seconds. Surely the atmosphere can handle 10 seconds for an important cause that clearly a huge majority of players support
 
Cool_Blue said:
But would you boo them for NOT taking a knee? e.g. if a player just stood there during ‘the knee’, would they deserve criticism, or not?
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Of course not.

The players can do whatever they like.

The point is that anyone who boos one of our players, for taking the knee against racial inequality, is a scumbag and should be launched out of Goodison forever.
 
Wolf8312 said:
No, they are well-intentioned.

But I do dislike it more as time goes on especially as it now seems to be a permanent thing.

BLM, let's not forget came about around the time that the BAME community was demanding (media) investigations into why blacks and Asians were being disproportionately affected by COVID and dying in record numbers.

Did this same media (aside from maybe Piers Morgan) who want to portray themselves as highly moralistic individuals when it comes to issues like booing, hold our own government to account for its despicable criminal negligence when our own people were dying, or disproportionate amounts of BAME doctors and nurses were dying? What did/will they do about that?

Sod all basically, but we're sending our love down the well!



While black people are/were actually dying these media cretins who call themselves left-wing (and they really are not) get up in arms about a bunch of football fans booing a political gesture at a game of football!

To be honest, I also hated the clap for the NHS stuff!

You may say what a monster, but the truth is it angered me. As with taking the knee, not because of the gesture itself, or the target of the gesture (nurses/doctors, etc) but because of how it was politicized in a similar manner.

It was, in my eyes, nothing but empty and cynical propaganda aimed at deluding people into believing our government actually cared when the truth was our government and the supine cowardly media forces that support and enable it (with their divide and conquer antagonistic identity politics) utterly betrayed the UK and its citizens. Nobody was or will be held to account.

Taking the knee is an utterly empty gesture, that for me, only typifies the disgusting hypocrisy of our media and the insidious powers that control it.

I know that the players mean well of course and wouldn't boo them myself but I watch football to forget about politics not to be reminded of the tiresome far left/right narrative. It is divisive in itself IMO.

And black lives do matter. But I didn't need to be told that anyway!
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So long as you keep schtum as the players kneel.
 
dead_soft said:
Ah yes, an ex councillor did something silly so now everyone who is anti-racist now hates Dickens. Another heavyweight intellectual battle.

Just disgusting that when Ben Godfrey took the knee yesterday he did it knowing full well its aim is to destroy the Western Canon. SICK.
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Those fans were not saying boooo, they were saying Booo-en Godfrey, Booo-en Godfrey!
 
Hickson9 said:
Linking all of this back to Everton, if you were lucky enough to get a ticket for a Goodison match, would you boo our players taking the knee against racial inequality?

I seriously hope not.
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I definitely wouldn't boo it but for me personally taking the knee has passed now. They need to keep up the anti racist message which has brought great strides in football
 
BlueDraka said:
I definitely wouldn't boo it but for me personally taking the knee has passed now. They need to keep up the anti racist message which has brought great strides in football
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And that is fine for you, personally.

For the players it obviously hasn't. The important thing is you respect that.

If you don't want to applaud it and just stay silent, then that is fine.
 
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