Taking the knee was a powerful way to amplify the message of Black Lives Matter, writes Jon Sopel. But football needs to stop its sanctimonious posturing and allow fans a place to escape what’s happening elsewhere in the world
My eyes hurt from reading the comments in every thread like this.
The emotional intelligence of the average r/soccer user is not fully expanded to comment on issues involving innocent people. Just like the emotional intelligence of the average tax payer is not fully informed about everything the government of the nation they live at does. People are bond to take sides in par to whoever feels like the most oppressed group to feel better with themselves, but unfortunately this, among all the other social issues being vomited onto our war-free privileged ass, is probably the only thing people should not be taking sides because it has been decades of taking sides and losing lives.
My eyes hurt from reading the comments in every thread like this.
The emotional intelligence of the average r/soccer user is not fully expanded to comment on issues involving innocent people. Just like the emotional intelligence of the average tax payer is not fully informed about everything the government of the nation they live at does. People are bond to take sides in par to whoever feels like the most oppressed group to feel better with themselves, but unfortunately this, among all the other social issues being vomited onto our war-free privileged ass, is probably the only thing people should not be taking sides because it has been decades of taking sides and losing lives.