Forest Bueller_bf said:
sombear said:
Shippou said:
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Jack Bauer said:
Feb 2021 - USWNT said they won't take a knee anymore during anthem anymore.
Olympics - USWNT and other Olympic teams take a knee at kickoff
I realize most here think this is an anti-American thing, but racism is a big deal in international soccer. In between February and the Olympics we had the Euro Finals.
They don't care. They don't know the racist abuse that Sancho, Saka, and Rashford received after missing penalties for England in the Euro championship a couple of weeks ago. They don't care that black players have bananas thrown at them from the stands and monkey sounds made at them.
They don't care. They just care about their magic sky cloth and "muh freedoms".
I care plenty. It's appalling, and that's not even a strong enough word. But, I look at it differently. I use what happens in Europe (and not just to soccer players) whenever folks says how racist the US is compared to Europe and other countries. We have nothing like that, and haven't in decades. It is commonplace in Europe. And the whole kneeling thing has never been about Europe. European clubs started doing it to protest what they perceived as US racial injustice - basically copied what some of our athletes were doing. Frankly, they did it to pile on the US. They have every right to do that, but ironic they didn't do it while their own players and teammates were suffering this overt abuse all along. That said, I love how European player finally are taking a stand and walking off the pitch when the crap happens. That I very much respect.
Euros kneel "against" America, when in fact they are more racist than America.
Everybody should condemn Euro fans who are openly and blatantly racist against blacks, and some have been all along. But, kneeling has nothing to do with condemning the Euro's. It is a unique condemnation of America, which is probably the least racist integrated Country in the world.
Swedes have no voice in this matter, being a generally homogenous society of 10 million people, of which only about 100,000 are black.
Quotes from England and New Zealand, no mention of the US.
"We are delighted that the IOC has made room for athletes to use their voices for good at the Olympic Games and are proud of our athletes for making a global stand for greater racial equality,"
said Rob Waddell, who is the New Zealand Olympic Committee's chef de mission for the Tokyo Games.
"Taking the knee was something we spoke about as a group. We feel so strongly and we want to show we're united," said Steph Houghton, one of Britain's co-captains, as
quoted by the BBC. "We want to fight all forms of discrimination and as a group of women, we wanted to kneel against it."
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat