This is an assignment given in the public schools in my state:

This is precisely what I mean when I say that today’s leftism equals austerity. This smug, Soviet-style garbage is given to children in lieu of normal education. A friend’s kid is in a local public high school. This is what kids are taught in every subject. Business, art, mathematics – it’s all this.

It’s not at all surprising that European soccer players are forced to kneel down to BLM before every game. BLM stands for austerity. The athletes are enacting how Europe has been brought to its knees by neoliberal austerity. It all makes sense.