Dominic Raab has been engulfed into a controversy amidst the Black Lives Matter protests after he suggested that he would not “take the knee” in support of the movement.
Describing it as a ‘symbol of subjugation and subordination”, the foreign secretary admitted that he did not know the broader history of the gesture and thus, has been ridiculed for incorrectly claiming it derived from hit TV series Game of Thrones, with critics calling his comments “insulting and embarrassing”. He said,
“I’ve got to say, on this taking a knee thing, I don’t know, maybe it’s got a broader history but it seems to be taken from The Game of Thrones, feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination rather than one of liberation and emancipation.
“But I understand people feel differently about it so it’s a matter of personal choice.”
