Sky sports supprt for BLM I understand Black lives matter but BLM is a political Party and I obj

[Mrunibond3]

I am afraid you can't as you are still in contract. I have along with thousands of others , hence BLM is no longer being rammed down our throats. 

[Diazz95]

It's a political statement that I'm tired of. Sport and politics should not be mixed, its something for the news channel.

The morons who abuse the ethnic minority will always be morons.  

[oj01]

Where are you seeing it "rammed down our throats"? 

Other than players taking a knee before a game, I hardly notice it. 

[Mark39]

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@oj01 wrote:

Where are you seeing it "rammed down our throats"? 

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It does make you wonder why people react in that way.....

There's no 'political statement' on it anywhere in Sky Sport.

[Mrunibond3]

Before and after every add break. On the side of the screen when the football scores came up and also during matches the logo would appear next to the timer just like " tag heur" used to. Anyway it all stopped last weekend I am told  ,as I guess too many people have voted with their feet . 

[Hogshawrabbit]

What appears to be lost is the acknowledgement that ALL lives matter. Black, White, Brown,Yellow and anything inbetween. Black lives a just one ethnic group were all humans and all lives matter.

[Hogshawrabbit]

I had to wait until this week when my contract was up to advise Sky of my displeasure. They will loose out bigtime supporting this nonsense. All lives matter.

[Mark39]

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@Hogshawrabbit wrote:

What appears to be lost is the acknowledgement that ALL lives matter. 

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That's a given. But not ALL have suffered widespread racial injustice and discrimination for decades and longer.

[Hogshawrabbit]

Maybe the **bleep** under the Pharoh may disagree 😉 and the Palestinians and the Brits uner the Romans and Vikings 😉 Britain help stop this a lot its in our history books how we led the world in stopping slavery of all races. This BLM is just political rubbish and has no place on our entertainment channels we are paying for !

[daveNOS]

@Hogshawrabbit Som people seem to be getting obsessed with the anti racism message being political simply because it mentions Black Lives matter, the act of taking the knee isn't political its an act of solidarity.

The support Sky, the Premiere League and Football League are showing is for an end to racism its not support for the BLM organistation(which has become a political organisation with some worrying rhetoric and ideas), if you have an issue with the anti racism message being shown then I'm sorry but that says a lot about you as a person.

The BLM movement is different to the BLM organisation.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Hogshawrabbit wrote:

...its in our history books how we led the world in stopping slavery of all races.

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After profiting greatly from it, which isn't in those history books quite so much...

[Hogshawrabbit]

Ageism is more of a problem in the UK rather than racism. Still I don't want any agenda messages on my paid for entertainment thank you. As such I am no longer paying. Everyone can have an opinion that's the sign of a healthy society. BLM and wokeness have no place on paid content.

[nolte]

This thread just keeps reminding me of a conversation with my mum. 

One morning when I lived at home, I was watching To Kill A mockingbird. 

My mother had seen attics finch's defense summation. She then left for the Sunday news paper.

She came home and Tom Robinson was in prison. 

Her question was 'how did he end up in prison"

My only answer was "racism" 

[Mark39]

Opinion is fine. Denial, minimising and evading the issue isn't.

[Kevin+j+v]

The first ever slaves were from the Slavic countries, hence the name "slave" it's a shortening of Slavic.

The Jewish community have suffered immensely with millions being murdered and still to this day anti semitism is rife, where is sky's continual support for them?