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What absolute bollocks, the size of the proportion was **** all to do with my actual point, a point that you’ve ignored obvs.

 

Tobes you really are hard work.

Incapable of listening to and analysing other peoples opinions without twisting them to enable unmerited criticism.

Bored.

 

No mate, I’m really straightforward and just call stuff as I see it. I thought your original post was somewhat confused and I said so. It’s what happens when you post your opinion on social media, people comment on it, it’s sort of the entire point of the medium.

I always listen and regularly agree with others, often people tell me things I’m unaware of or have an angle I’d not considered.

So your cod analysis is demonstrable bollocks, and all you’ve done here, is piss your knickers as I’ve not agreed with what you initially said.

 

. sorry tobes, but sharpe made you look like a plum..

you just wanted to twist his words to suit,

 

It is funny @Sharpe* to see these companies back tracking as they are. Even someone with a rudimentary knowledge of BLM protests would know they often garner a violent minority. As do most protests tbf.

They jumped on a bandwagon and as soon as it hit the fan they **** themselves.

I find it strange that nowadays corporations have opinions, political beliefs and the like. Faceless businesses that don't even pay their staff decent wages, give them their allotted breaktime or monitor toilet visits.

I'm looking at you Starbucks, Subway, Burger King etc.

 

Agreed.

The professionalism and standards of a lot of companies has been lost.

PR has overtaken almost everything yet underneath the surface they hide a multitude of sins.

BLM for a lot of these companies was simply a PR exercise.

Black lives matter but people working in sweat shops evidently don't.

 

Some gate

 

Lewis Hamilton is trying to guilt fellow drivers into taking the knee. If they feel uncomfortable then they should be able to protest/show solidarity how they want and not to be forced into kneeling.


Lewis Hamilton says some drivers' reluctance to take a knee before the Austrian Grand Prix is down to a lack of understanding of racism.

F1 drivers will take a collective stance against racism before Sunday's season-opening race, but some are not comfortable with the kneeling gesture.

Hamilton said he had made his point to the drivers at a meeting on Friday.

"I described the scenario that silence is really generally complicit. There is some silence in some cases," he said.

World champion Hamilton added: "But I think it is part of a dialogue of people trying to understand, because there are still some people who don't fully understand what is happening and what is the reason for these protests and I continue to try to be that guide and try to influence as many people as I can with it."

also hinting they are too thick to understand whats happening

 

I know it's probably going back many years now, but didn't Hamilton used to get loads of racial abuse in the Spanish Grand Prix?

 

Can answer my own question, it was 11-12 years ago, quite shocking when you read about it...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/nov/01/lewis-hamilton-spain

 

Yes he did.

 

Yeah just found it mate, we posted same time, comment just before yours

 

If they feel uncomfortable then they should be able to protest/show solidarity how they want and not to be forced into kneeling.

Agree with this completely. But has he actually said they have to take the knee? I saw the headline earlier on a news site but didn't bother reading it.

 

It’s not a sport known for its diversity, and the abuse he took back then was a shocker. No wonder he feels strongly about it, and I think his point is that the extremely privileged, mostly very young, white lads, who make up the entire grid, maybe don’t have any real perspective on the subject, and I reckon he’s probably right.

 

I'm sure Lewis really gives a ****.

 

Here we go...

 

If he didn’t give a **** he’d have kept his head down and said **** all. Instead he’s spoken out strongly on the subject and he’s been taking dogs abuse for it.

 

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from reading what rors has put up i'm reading it as if they are staying silent (so not kneeling in this case) then they are complicit in racism.

 

Some decades later? Good on him for taking this late stance.