
morty
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A Norwich fan was ejected from the stadium for booing when players took the knee before the Forest game, on Wednesday. Some supporters near him complained to stewards, and out he went.
Some background, in case you haven't been following it, at the Millwall game last weekend some of their fans booed when the Millwall players took the knee. The club compromised, and for the midweek the players linked arms, in a show of unity, against prejudice of all kinds. The media fell over themselves to brand the Millwall fans as racists.
BLM is an extremely divisive organisation, and taking the knee is very much linked to them, and before they became prominent again in early 2020, nobody was taking the knee( Apart from one American football player) So it has very much become their trademark. The issue the Millwall fans have is that BLM have since registered themselves in the UK, as a political party. BLM have rioted and burned their way across America, very much pushing a Marxist agenda, calling for the destruction of the nuclear family, and end to capitalism, and a defund of the police. So it is a held opinion that BLM are using racism as a vehicle for other things. In the UK we saw out flag being burned, and our war memorials desecrated. But we have come to a position where, people shut down any debate about it by simply saying, "If you do not support BLM, you are a racist". To further support the act of the knee, it is being compared, by some, as being just the same as our yearly act of remembrance at the time of the poppy appeal.
There has been widespread crowing about this on Twitter, with calls for the fan who was ejected, to be banned. For booing. It is worthy of note, it is being ignored that Zimmermann did not take the knee (also a Forest player didn't) so does that make them racists? Nobody ever booed anything to do with the Kick it out campaign, did they? Has taking the knee become compulsory, and is there a different take on freedom of speech if you do not agree with it? How long is it going to go on? Will this statement now be a part of football forever? And anyone who dare speak out about it be banned? Political statements are not allowed by the FA, does this have a place in football?
Thoughts?
Some background, in case you haven't been following it, at the Millwall game last weekend some of their fans booed when the Millwall players took the knee. The club compromised, and for the midweek the players linked arms, in a show of unity, against prejudice of all kinds. The media fell over themselves to brand the Millwall fans as racists.
BLM is an extremely divisive organisation, and taking the knee is very much linked to them, and before they became prominent again in early 2020, nobody was taking the knee( Apart from one American football player) So it has very much become their trademark. The issue the Millwall fans have is that BLM have since registered themselves in the UK, as a political party. BLM have rioted and burned their way across America, very much pushing a Marxist agenda, calling for the destruction of the nuclear family, and end to capitalism, and a defund of the police. So it is a held opinion that BLM are using racism as a vehicle for other things. In the UK we saw out flag being burned, and our war memorials desecrated. But we have come to a position where, people shut down any debate about it by simply saying, "If you do not support BLM, you are a racist". To further support the act of the knee, it is being compared, by some, as being just the same as our yearly act of remembrance at the time of the poppy appeal.
There has been widespread crowing about this on Twitter, with calls for the fan who was ejected, to be banned. For booing. It is worthy of note, it is being ignored that Zimmermann did not take the knee (also a Forest player didn't) so does that make them racists? Nobody ever booed anything to do with the Kick it out campaign, did they? Has taking the knee become compulsory, and is there a different take on freedom of speech if you do not agree with it? How long is it going to go on? Will this statement now be a part of football forever? And anyone who dare speak out about it be banned? Political statements are not allowed by the FA, does this have a place in football?
Thoughts?