• YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Then you never liked them to begin with and you were never going to sympathize with them anyways. If doing a completely harmless form of civil disobedience causes you to lose your marbles then you’re not interested in fixing anything to begin with.

    Colin Kaepernick literally just kneeled before games, that’s it, that’s literally all he did , and still people lost their marbles, but the people losing their marbles were Trump voters who never cared about BlackLivesMatter to begin with

    This same thing happened during the Civil Rights Era and it’s happened in other countries too

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      1 year ago

      And he started kneeling after a military veteran told him that would be a respectable form of protest. Literally can’t win.

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      1 year ago

      we don’t owe terrible people anything. we shouldn’t care what they think and focus on defeating them and changing the world without their permission, which we don’t need and shouldn’t be worried about obtaining.