• lolcatnip
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    4 months ago

    I’m American and I didn’t get the reference.

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      3 months ago

      Fair. I can only speak about my lived experience. It may have faded from the public eye, but when I was living in the states, just saying the word “kneel” would have gotten half the population frothing at their mouth.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, I think I would’ve have gotten it in 2019, but kneeling definitely isn’t at the top of my mind as a form of protest. And even at the time it seemed odd to me because kneeling is almost always interpreted as a show of respect.