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Is Our Foreign Secretary Just Making It Up As He Goes Along?
Is our Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, fit for purpose when he knows so little about "taking the knee" that he thinks it's to do with Game of Thrones, which features an unrelated concept called "bending the knee"? Bear in mind that he is the Foreign Secretary, the USA is one of our biggest allies and this is a key issue in the USA right now as well as here.
To quote Raab: "I don't know, maybe it's got a broader history, but it seems to be taken from the Game of Thrones. It feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination rather than one of liberation and emancipation."
"I don't know", "it seems", "it feels to me" ... how can he be so clueless?
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To quote Raab: "I don't know, maybe it's got a broader history, but it seems to be taken from the Game of Thrones. It feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination rather than one of liberation and emancipation."
"I don't know", "it seems", "it feels to me" ... how can he be so clueless?
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If he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he might be better keeping his mouth shut and letting people think he’s a fool, rather than opening it and removing all doubt, as the adage goes.
14:24 Thu 18th Jun 2020
He is talking about the concept of subjugation. Bending the knee, taking a knee bowing dow, it’s all the same.
In this case bowing to pressure because they think they should.
By admitting their racism with ‘taking the knee’ they think they can placate the mob and get away out the back door.
But it doesn’t work that way.
The only time I will ‘take a knee’ is on three occasions that I can think of. 1. If I’m being paid to do it 2. If I am forced to do it or 3. When I get a knighthood or something.
And I can tell you for nothing I would never do it for a openly Marxist group who’s aims are to radically reform the country for the worse.
In this case bowing to pressure because they think they should.
By admitting their racism with ‘taking the knee’ they think they can placate the mob and get away out the back door.
But it doesn’t work that way.
The only time I will ‘take a knee’ is on three occasions that I can think of. 1. If I’m being paid to do it 2. If I am forced to do it or 3. When I get a knighthood or something.
And I can tell you for nothing I would never do it for a openly Marxist group who’s aims are to radically reform the country for the worse.
It's a shame that Raab either didn't trouble himself to understand the origins of the gesture at all, or decided that only the most superficial research was enough to comment on it. Better had he stayed silent.
I do agree that in one sense it's neither here nor there. No amount of politicians taking the knee makes the blindest bit of difference if it isn't backed up by action that actually will change things. If Raab took the knee this evening, or at some point in the next few days, which wouldn't surprise me, then it would be little more than an attempt to deflect criticism rather than an attempt to address it.
I do agree that in one sense it's neither here nor there. No amount of politicians taking the knee makes the blindest bit of difference if it isn't backed up by action that actually will change things. If Raab took the knee this evening, or at some point in the next few days, which wouldn't surprise me, then it would be little more than an attempt to deflect criticism rather than an attempt to address it.
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