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Candi_Hills

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  1. It's anything but grassroots. The fact that every arm of power - government, media, the PL, private companies, Hollywood, schools - promotes it should tell you that it isn't. Everything about it from it's inception screamed 'corporate' and 'artifical'. BLM is the system. As for a "response to racism", it would be more accurate to say it's a response to a completely broken system, the result of decades of mass-immigration and throwing together different groups in order to satisfy capitalism's ever growing hunger for workers and consumers. The billionaire class have manipulated our countries so that the system can continue to grow and they can continue to get richer. Racial tensions are the societal fallout of capitalist greed and the system is working overtime to manage them. As Chomsky rightly concluded, capitalism is anti-racist. Tradition, religion, identity etc. are all obstacles to profit and they must be wiped out. All that matters is the dollar. The capitalist class don't give a shit about black lives (or any other lives) but they do need populations without an identity (racial, religious, national). Obviously, for the time being native white reactionaries are the biggest threat in Europe but that will change in the coming decades as demographics change. The BLM and anti-racist stuff is a pure capitalist propaganda measure as they seek to manipulate more and more countries at will.
  2. Efforts were always made in the past to keep politics out of football. Players were never allowed to make salutes or reveal t-shirts and suchlike.
  3. Thanks for taking the time to write a reasonable reply. I knew most on here wouldn't agree with me. Most players take the knee because they're told to. They just want to pick up their money and not get in trouble. You have to go a bit out of your way to get an intelligent anti-BLM/knee take and I can't imagine many footballers are binging political content on youtube. "Is BLM even referenced when players take the knee these days?" It was originally. The BLM slogans were everywhere but then the media gradually shifted the message to a one about equality. It was very cleverly done and not organic. I don't want to derail the thread with a full debate but it's very much a political issue I see it and certainly not as simple as being a grassroots challenge to racism.
  4. Thanks for replying with more than an emoji. And I'm not a Trump fan, so no need for his voice. Your second line there is somewhat correct. The media did start putting a different spin on it, although BLM and the whole knee thing at its inception was never about ending discrimination of all kinds. It was a very deliberate shift by the media to try and make it more palatable / relevant to British audiences. And I'll have to disagree with your 3rd line. I could be sympathetic to a million politcal and societal issues but I don't want them crossing over into football. Everything has politics injected into it now and politics (and societal issues) are divisive always. I want football to be an escape.
  5. It's spot on in my opinion. 1. Why bring politics into football? Why force a political position on people? A cursory glance round the internet tells you 50% of people don't support BLM, including some black people. 2. What is the BLM issue? Police violence? The general plight of blacks in the US? In either case, it's an overseas issue. Why is a knee for black Americans any more warranted than a knee for the Uighurs or a knee for Palestinian kids? How about an issue closer to home? A knee 20,000 white girls raped by Pakistani gangs? 3. The BLM claim is that blacks are killed at a disproportionate rate to whites by police in the US. On the face of it, the claim is true. More whites are killed by police in the US in terms of raw numbers but blacks are overrepresented because they only make up 14% of the population or whatever it is. This doesn't take into account how much crime blacks are responsible for and how much more likely they are to have an engagement with an officer in the first place. When crime rates are accounted for, the picture starts to balance itself out. And that's just police violence. If we look at interracial violence more generally, a black person is 25 times more likely to kill a white than the other way round. 25 times! And this is not black v white thing either. You can listen to black people on youtube saying the same things I've just said. I asked some rhetorical questions above. In fact, I know the answers to all of the those questions but I'll leave it there. I wish politics and football were separate.
  6. Sickened me hearing the millionaire celebrities at half-time say the fans are too thick to understand why the knee is being taken. How dare the peasants have an opinion!
  7. There are no naturally 2 footed players really. Glenn Hoddle is the closest I’ve seen to being two footed. He could carry the ball solely on his left or right foot. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other pro player do that. Even Beardsley, Ginola, Ronaldo, whoever... they all carry the ball on their strong foot.
  8. Am I right in thinking Ben Jacobs said we were going to be getting rocked by bad news this week? And nowt has happened?
  9. Plus, I cannot imagine any scenario in which Amanda is going, “we’re knackered, might as well get yourself away. Court case is just for show.”
  10. I have a remarkable ability to get on with my life AND monitor takeover news. Although I must admit, I do sometimes worry that excess in my personal life could affect the sale of NUFC.
  11. Emre once had a kick about with us in Jesmond. Everyone thought it was great but I was worried about his knees.
  12. Man United fans who aren't from Manchester should not be taken seriously.
  13. I'd be amazed if they don't spend the absolute maximum they're allowed to.
  14. Fear not, Wandy. I have full faith in our fans to give well reasoned political hot takes on the middern east as they pile of the Gallowgate end. "Whey... as lang as they get a new centre haalf in like... then they gaan morder whoiver they like for me like."
  15. Well, I like the idea of a gaggle of eager Saudi girls peeping through their head gear to see what Keith's latest tweet is.
  16. I hate them. Owners, manager players and fans. Hope their shitty global fanbase turns blue.
  17. I thought Keith made it pretty clear last week that he gets all his craic from QC O’Donoghue. I was a bit worried at first that he had some Micky Mouse solicitor on it, like Warwick Davis and his accountant. Just a hypothetical... If we steam roller them in count or they fold and agree to settle at the first whiff of disclosure, would your opinion of Keith change? It would after all mean he was right all along - rock solid case, never in doubt etc.
  18. I'm picturing her flying through an alleyway with Rafa on her back as Masters and the gang jump into wheelie bins.
  19. You would think that, wouldn't you? De Marco should be able say, "They're state owned, he's killed 4 people with his own hands, he was bankrupt when he passed the test, he didn't even do the test..."
  20. I miss his rants in the ME back when he was friends with Saddam. He used to stand upturned apple boxes and shout “There is one Quran! One Allah! One religion!”, like a mad preacher. I thought he was nuts at the time but I’ve grown to like his approach. I think he was just trying to piss off chickenhawk Chris Hitchens.
  21. It’d be fantastic. Siege mentality, fanbase bound together, 40k fans in division 4, Saudi squillions. The only bad thing would be that the chosen 6 spend would spend the following years working out a way to have final say on any transfer in the league.
  22. I honestly don't know what to make of Keith. "Amanda said she wanted fan led action and that's why I stepped forward." Listening to it again, I think he might just be saying that he responded to her public request for fan action, although he has said on twitter before that he's had contact with buyer and seller. Then again, he has repeatedly stated that he needed to first establish whether there was still a willing buyer and seller, so his contact with the buyers may just have been some preliminary legal letter. It's a comforting thought to think Amanda has her hand up his arse and is working him like Rod Hull but I think the truth might be that he really is the little man who tried to take on the machine and he gets bits of info here and there. A lot of what he says is obviously informed by Robert O'Donoghue. I wish she'd put her hand up my arse.
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