Your contention that because a symbol is associated with a movement that anyone using it must be supporting that movement. That is true, by common consent for the Nazi salute, but is clearly in dispute for "taking the knee". Did I really need to explain that?

Learn and try harder. Some can and do. Some cannot and don't.

He must be older than he looks if he’s been doing it for 60 years,

an article about the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. The Gamecocks held a Varsity-Alumni game, and during halftime, one of the Alumni players, Albert "King" Dixon Jr., paid tribute to Rex Enright, a longtime coach and athletic director who had died the month before.

With two minutes left before they had to go back out on the field, the Little King stood up and said: "Some of us talked about this before the game. We all played for him. We all loved him. Now he's gone. So let's all take a knee for a moment of silence for our Rex Enright."
—The State (Columbia, S.C.), May 2, 1960, p. 3B

So what? We are not talking about 60 years ago and an unconnected event. Kaepernick's protest was the direct precursor for the events we are discussing.

The whole knee thing has been a bad decision by everybody bearing in mind what happened in London. Again, look at F1. Rejected by individual sportsmen not under pressure by new English woke nonsense led by corporations and sky, who funnily enough are the biggest of the lot. No, instead they display anti racism without subservient and controversial gestures.

Clearly the QPR players have got emotional over it in the last few days because they’ve been influenced that what happened at Millwall vs Derby was racist rather than against the gesture and the recent not too distant history of the knee and black power salutes.

It’s a standard thing in American Football and has been for a long time. Never heard of the Quarterback kneel? Kaepernick co-opted it.