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(08-14-2018, 04:20 PM)GMDino Wrote: The bold is the point.

Guy kneeled.  When asked why he explained.  Media explodes with argument over whether kneeling was the right thing to do and here we are, to this day, with people saying they don't know why he kneeled, claiming they know the REAL reason he kneeled and all other kids of stories that have zero to do with the actual event.

And people are too lazy to go find out when they have a nice, comfortable bubble of information around them telling them they are right even when they are demonstrably wrong.

So if it failed it is not the fault of the protestors.  It is the fault of those who wanted to avoid the reason and spin it into something else.

In the case of the kneeling, I think PART of the problem lies with the protestors, at least with Colin K, anyways. Had he started out kneeling and/or maybe even made a press release PRIOR to protesting, he may have been able to have more control over the message. 

That said, I think the majority of the fault lies with the media.