Dominik knelt down. So what? Is this fact of any importance? Does it have “news value”? I don't think so, but life - and people's reactions - prove me wrong.
I have been reading the articles, comments, and even the statements of some politicians about the case for days, and I am increasingly convinced that those who express themselves either do not think the situation through or are deliberately smearing it. Let's make an attempt to clarify the whole kneeling misery by studying them.
The strange, or rather astonishing, custom is rooted in the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement. Their initially protest movements turned into frenzied rampage and murder after the death of a drug-addicted criminal named George Floyd. Everyone knows this by now.
Do you know? The English, perhaps, not so much.
If they knew who or what they were kneeling before, maybe - but just maybe - they wouldn't do it.
Because there can only be two reasons for the "noble gesture" of soccer players. They either honor the memory of said criminal or sympathize with the BLM movement. In both cases, they do something that is incomprehensible to common sense. Who, with a pure heart, stands up for a drug-addled criminal who, for example, without batting an eye, pointed a knife at the bulging belly of a pregnant mother in order to rob her - or stab her if she resisted. I don't think that will lead the British footballers, because if it does, forget about Britannia.
The second option is more understandable, if they demonstrate for BLM, they are doing nothing but penance for British colonialism. But none of the kneeling footballers are responsible for the fact that their country once conquered others. Don't think that the descendants of those families who got rich from colonialism are tormented by guilt for a single moment.
They don't kneel, the guilt has been outsourced, or if you prefer, sublet.
Okay, the historical brainstorming would be fine, but what does Dominik Szoboszlai of Hungary have to do with this? Nothing in the world. Then why do you kneel with the others? I would swear that it is not out of guilt over Hungarian colonization, because we do not know of conquering Hungarian colonists.
According to a politician of the moment, it's because he stands up for equality. Well, dear János, You can do anything - you do -
the BLM kneeling was never, for one moment, about equality.
He didn't even advertise it, on the contrary. If you could remember events that were more than an hour old (you can, you just don't want to remember), what happened when someone dragged a molino over the field before a kneeling game? They were arrested and convicted, even though the sign on the molino was just this: "Every life matters". But according to BLM's racist ideology, only black lives matter.
The same person cannot lie that kneeling is not mandatory on the green lawn of the English home, because there was someone (a single footballer!) who announced that he would not kneel. And according to Kelepela, nothing bad happened. It's true, they didn't beat him to death (and this is not a devil's solution for BLM activists, they did it in the USA, not even once), they "just" put him out of the first frame. But it's revenge, isn't it?
Let me adorn myself with other people's feathers and send the same message that Ottó Gajdics used to say: You go where I think...
But if you're thinking about it, let's see what a footballer thinks about the stages of his career. I know because I myself - admittedly, for a very short time - kicked the ball in a reputable team. I didn't continue, but I kept the mentality. The soccer player first wants to get into the starting team. Once it's in, its goal is to stay in it. If you are a definite beginner, you want to move up to a higher class. If it has happened, he wants to join an elite team, if he has achieved that, he wants to sign abroad. And if he is already playing abroad, his desire is to join one of the TOP teams in the world.
Dominik Szoboszlai achieved his goal, and moreover, he joined the team where his former favorite played (he tattooed his name on himself out of respect). He has achieved everything he wanted, the only thing missing is the last step to get on the field as a starting team member. Yes, but the condition for this - no matter how much a Momentum player lies - is that he doesn't stand out from the line, fits in and as a sign of this, does what the club management expects of him, bends his knees with the others.
If you find yourself among wolves, join the pack - or it's over.
Who could blame Dominik if he doesn't immediately face the pack? The fact that he doesn't do it voluntarily is proven by the fact that he didn't leave his knee on the lawn of the Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, only the English kneeled there - in front of us.
Another question, and no one has asked it yet: who did the Hungarian star kneel to? It wouldn't be worth asking him, because if he did it on orders, he can't reveal it anyway. If I were in Dominik's place - impossible, but let's assume - I would also have dropped to my knees. As I say to myself:
Dear God, I bow my knees before you and I ask you to help me to play well and bring glory to my beloved country.
How different is this kind of spatial planning, isn't it?
Author: György Tóth Jr
Cover image: Illustration / Source: Dominik Szoboszlai's Facebook page
