Now taking a knee becomes about resisting Trump and protecting the great "freedom" of being to choose whether to stand or kneel.
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Trump's comments provide a great opportunity for liberals to dilute the reason Kaep took a knee in the first place.
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They want to turn it into one of those "we are one" or "rise above hate" campaigns.
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Rather than addressing the critique of America's institutions, it becomes about platitudes and performances.
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This transformation allows people to support taking a knee while also upholding their loyalty to the American empire.
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Taking a knee transforms from an act of resistance to an act of patriotism. A sign of unity and America's "freedom of choice."
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Protesting Trump IS protesting systemic white supremacy. The two are inseparable
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This started before trump and will last much longer. You undermine the reality if this situation by lumping these two protests together.
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Trump is a symptom of the same disease; white supremacy. There can be no hope of fixing the police so long as Trump is encouraging them
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Trying to change this protest to resisting trump is erasing the victims of policy brutality. Which is exactly what trump wants.
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I'm sorry, but I don't buy that at all. Nobody is erasing anything. Nobody has forgotten about police brutality. Trump encourages brutality.
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It would have been great if there'd been mass on field protests last year. But there weren't. It took linking cop crimes with trump to hapn
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As I said. Police brutality is a SYMPTOM of white supremacy. If the protest had taken on a bigger umbrella, that's not a bad thing
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Saying take a knee can only be about police is like saying Rosa Parks only cared about where folks could sit on a bus. Symptom - disease
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They're hijacking the narrative
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Lol all America sees is a bunch of spoiled athletes getting paid millions to show disrespect to our flag.
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You don't speak for me or anyone else in this country. Please don't project your own ignorance on others.
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You called it
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What the fuck are you talking about? We liberals are sick of cops getting away with killing innocent black people.
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