How can anyone support such petty, hateful, people? I just don’t get it.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Not American here. Could someone explain what kneeling during protest or during the national anthem or things like that mean?

    I’ve read it in a lot of news and I always have a hard time figuring out what the meaning of kneeling in that context is.

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      It’s a show of solidarity with a cause. Colin Kapernick started doing it during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

      These agents that were fired were likely exercising their 1st amendment right of free speech to express their support for racial justice.

      That they are being fired for supporting racial justice speaks volumes about the scared white people at the helm of the USA.