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UK school allows students to take knee to protest ‘racially motivated abuse’
New York Post ^ | July 20, 2021 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 07/20/2021 2:07:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A school in England allowed students Tuesday to take a knee to protest racism – drawing fury from some parents and a local lawmaker despite claiming the youngsters helped come up with the idea, according to a report.

A spokesman for Noel-Baker Academy — a secondary school in Alvaston for students ages 11 through 16 — said the idea for the display of unity came about following the July 11 Euro 2020 final.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: racism; uk
Brainwashing 101.
1 posted on 07/20/2021 2:07:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Allows or Orders ?


2 posted on 07/20/2021 2:11:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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There is a statement towards the end of the article. But I wonder if social causes are randomly picked to fit an agenda.


3 posted on 07/20/2021 2:15:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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When I was in high school back in the 70s, our social studies teacher taught us the wonders if protesting against things we didn’t like to cause change. He was a huge advocate of protesting until we protested him. He was the own that learned a lesson that day.


4 posted on 07/20/2021 2:27:15 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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Thank goodness the UK doesn’t have real problems such as child abuse.


5 posted on 07/20/2021 2:43:34 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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Antiracism is racism on steroids.


6 posted on 07/20/2021 2:48:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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Imitation, hero worship and peer pressure. Teens and young kids are most vulnerable and least understand the symbolism.

They are bowing to their future oppressors to be "cool kids".

7 posted on 07/20/2021 2:50:19 PM PDT by pfflier
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Meanwhile, I'd say the UK has far bigger problems...

Poll: Should anti-vaxxers who end up in ICU with Covid pay their own medical bills?

8 posted on 07/20/2021 2:55:38 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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“A spokesman...said the idea for the display of unity”


Did all the students kneel? Was the ‘unity’ required? And what happened to those who declined?

On a like note, is kneeling during the playing of the ‘black national anthem’ before NFL games required or forbidden?


9 posted on 07/20/2021 2:58:22 PM PDT by hanamizu
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How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?


10 posted on 07/20/2021 3:07:16 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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WTH! Only shows ignorance.


11 posted on 07/20/2021 3:35:18 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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despite claiming the youngsters helped come up with the idea

Dammit teachers, you're supposed to be the ADULT in the room.

12 posted on 07/20/2021 4:49:14 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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What we are seeing today is tantamount to racial abuse of Whites. Take BOTH knees to protest it?


13 posted on 07/20/2021 11:10:00 PM PDT by Mr Information
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