I admit, it’s not as much fun as when women went braless (yes, I’m aware that’s sexist). But fun it is.
David Rothkopf, Washington Post columnist and Carnegie Endowment scholar, is down with knee-taking, which has spread beyond football and sports altogether.
So on board is Rothkopf with this form of protest that he is thinking outside the box. Here is what he tweeted a short while ago:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Wouldn’t it be great if taking a knee became the symbol of resistance to Trump & wherever he went, wherever people gathered, they did it?
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) September 24, 2017
I suspect that Donald Trump would be pleased to have Americans drop to their knee wherever he went. Obama would have loved it: Having his subjects bow in his presence.
Surprisingly, the idea wasn’t all that well received by Rothkopf’s liberal followers on Twitter. One of them grumbled:
Yeah, or you could make your own, instead of co-opting one made by black people to protest police murdering black people.
— Jordan Hartley ???? (@jordanhartley89) September 24, 2017
Maybe don’t try to steal the momentum of a black movement against police brutality? Maybe do the work yourself.
— Jordan Hartley ???? (@jordanhartley89) September 24, 2017
Others saw the downsides from a medical standpoint:
But my arthritis…
— CarlToddHand (@CarlToddHand) September 24, 2017
We need a “bad knees” alternative!
— Carolyn Moran (@travelingirl68) September 24, 2017
Several commenters picked up the notion delineated earlier (that this could be misconstrued as a sign of respect):
It’ll look like one is pledging personal fealty & subservience to Trump. No thank you
— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) September 24, 2017
No, I will never take a knee in front of Trump, bow down before a tyrant. Happy to turn my back on him though.
— Shelby Edwards (@STEWest) September 24, 2017
as long as it didn’t become confused with genuflecting
— Mike Jensen (@mikejjensen) September 24, 2017
Finally, there was the inevitable reality sandwich tossed in among the other comments:
Kaepernick started it while Obama was president
— Brian ????????☭????????️ (@bfkelleher) September 24, 2017
Then of course there’s always the unhappy reminder for liberals pictorialized above. That’s of course another player taking a knee for a wholly (holy?) different reason.
