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Originally Posted by Shuffle
You shouldn't be kneeling if you want change. You should be organizing military forces or boycotts or strikes. This whole kneeling thing is garbage, what does anyone expect to accomplish doing that?
It is a tactic to divide and conquer. Why do you think the American media gave Kaepernick such a large voice to make kneeling a thing? Why do you think Trump got involved? Because they saw how effective a tactic it would be to divide the proletariats along predictable identity lines.
The same thing with the whole protesting thing. Change isn't the main goal. Change may happen, and it may even be good for some. But the goal is to keep the people divided, so they never become a true threat to the neoliberal capitalist state. There is a reason the stock market never reacted to the protests and riots. Because the bankers rightly concluded it was mostly a magic show (at least as far as enacting real change, of course there were real serious effects to a lot of people)
China embargoing US soybeans is a real threat to the Neoliberal capitalist state. Police and protesters battling in the streets over police violence, not so much.