by Maddog » Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:54 pm
Cactus Jack wrote:Maddog wrote:Guest wrote:Red Okktober wrote:Maddog wrote:
That's probably where we are going.
My Vietnamese secretary suggested that's probably the only way this nonsense ends.
It's all very well these fools imposing their wokeness on society by introducing songs and protests at sporting events, but the biggest problem will be in putting a stop to it. The sporting bodies that have allowed it to happen, haven't thought it through very well - they have painted themselves into a corner. Who will have the balls to pull the plug on kneeling and special songs?
Taking the knee here happened during lockdown with no crowds. Towards the end of last season, very limited crowds were allowed in, and this is a typical reaction below. Once crowds get back towards full capacity, the full force of public opinion will become known, and someone will have to do something about it. Wokeness and blue collar sports fans isn't a good mix, and trouble lies ahead.
Why do you want a perfectly peaceful protest to stop?
You're not Priti Patel you can't send in the stormtroopers on a peaceful protest.
Generally the problem arises when a perfectly peaceful counter protest fires up. The two opposing peaceful protests often devolve into a non peaceful protest.
One peaceful protest is fine, two opposing peaceful protests seem to be more problematic..
Then of course you throw in soccer, which has a long history of violence long before kneeling became so popular.
So right to peaceful assembly is contingent on how much you agree with them?
I guess when Greg Abbott is your role model you become a dictator.
I didn't say that.
Protest, all you want. Hell, I'm not even opposed to violent protest..
I thought it was pretty cool when the burned police buildings in Minneapolis last summer. Violent protesters attacked then source if their problems. Bad government.
You need to revist that false dilemma thread again. Perhaps my positions are.too nuanced for you?
[quote="Cactus Jack"][quote="Maddog"][quote="Guest"][quote="Red Okktober"][quote="Maddog"]
That's probably where we are going.
My Vietnamese secretary suggested that's probably the only way this nonsense ends.[/quote]
It's all very well these fools imposing their wokeness on society by introducing songs and protests at sporting events, but the biggest problem will be in putting a stop to it. The sporting bodies that have allowed it to happen, haven't thought it through very well - they have painted themselves into a corner. Who will have the balls to pull the plug on kneeling and special songs?
Taking the knee here happened during lockdown with no crowds. Towards the end of last season, very limited crowds were allowed in, and this is a typical reaction below. Once crowds get back towards full capacity, the full force of public opinion will become known, and someone will have to do something about it. Wokeness and blue collar sports fans isn't a good mix, and trouble lies ahead.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMGn4MjHKVs[/youtube][/quote]
Why do you want a perfectly peaceful protest to stop?
You're not Priti Patel you can't send in the stormtroopers on a peaceful protest.[/quote]
Generally the problem arises when a perfectly peaceful counter protest fires up. The two opposing peaceful protests often devolve into a non peaceful protest.
One peaceful protest is fine, two opposing peaceful protests seem to be more problematic..
Then of course you throw in soccer, which has a long history of violence long before kneeling became so popular.[/quote]
So right to peaceful assembly is contingent on how much you agree with them?
I guess when Greg Abbott is your role model you become a dictator.[/quote]
I didn't say that.
Protest, all you want. Hell, I'm not even opposed to violent protest..
I thought it was pretty cool when the burned police buildings in Minneapolis last summer. Violent protesters attacked then source if their problems. Bad government.
You need to revist that false dilemma thread again. Perhaps my positions are.too nuanced for you?