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Well, yes, so the one-knee pose does have more supplicatory/belittling context in monarchic societies.
Agreed, although tbh I always thought honour recipients were required to kneel more deeply, and on both knees. Perhaps the pic is a more modern way of bending the knee?
The averted gaze and lowered head in your pic also convey submission. In sports you just keep your gaze and head normal, which conveys a different body language. If it’s a truly awful injury then yeah people will cry, avert their eyes, put their head down...
The possible subliminal impact of ‘bend the knee’ vs. ‘take a knee’ are also interesting to me. I suspect They (politicians) know there’s difference in the meaning, even if the physical action is similar or the same. I suspect they purposely choose to use the former in order to conflate both actions in the public discourse.
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Well, yes, so the one-knee pose does have more supplicatory/belittling context in monarchic societies.
NB I'm not criticising it any way. Just interested in the cultural context/readings.