[Terr_]

> taking the knee

Taking the knee to say what though?

1. Before: People warning about a problem of corrupt police forces of power-tripping fools and bullies that routinely get away with murder.

2. After: A corrupt police state has metastasized onto the national state age, with its own fools and bullies, including illegally imprisoning and murdering people.

I wouldn't label that a "pendulum swing" between opposite situations.

[inglor_cz]

Taking the knee because everyone around you is taking it as well. Pure social pressure. Remember the soccer matches in places like the UK, where some continental teams or players were booed for not doing so?

Political theatre by people who wouldn't be able to tell you who was the Prime Minister, how much does milk cost etc.

Even well-meaning US liberals overestimate the count of black people shot by the police by three orders of magnitude. That is some serious divergence from reality, and it was hyped by social networks.

[Terr_]

> who was the Prime Minister

> how much does milk cost

> the count of black people shot by the police

Whoah, hold up: One of these things is not like the others. (♫ One of those things just doesn't belong.♫)

The Prime Minister's name shows up regularly in news stories, and the price of milk is literally in front of you as you buy it...

So why are you expecting anybody to be decent at "estimating" even the easier version of "all people shot by police this year"? It's not like there's a daily figure shared after the weather-report.

[FatherOfCurses]

> Even well-meaning US liberals overestimate the count of black people shot by the police by three orders of magnitude. That is some serious divergence from reality, and it was hyped by social networks.

Definitely gonna need a citation on that

[aprilthird2021]

> Taking the knee because everyone around you is taking it as well. Pure social pressure

Pure social pressure. Whereas now everything is completely political pressure dictated from the top down. Idk social pressure seems more organic at least. Biden didn't order that anyone who didn't take a knee will be deported to a torture prison in Guatemala