Black Lives Matter
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Black Lives Matter:
@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:
As expected the movement does a little bit of a side-step and starts moving toward their new target
I'd expect them to move onto Kashmir & India's actions there shortly.
While actually have sympathy for the view of Israel's actions, it's really difficult to see what on earth black lives have to do with jews and arabs in the Middle East
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@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:
It's easy to see why Tucker is the most watched show in all of US prime time TV
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Obviously didn't check his black privilege....
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@MajorRage said in Black Lives Matter:
@Rembrandt I'm guessing you've already seen this one. Same theme
I'm waiting for the Candid Camera (or whatever the fuck it's called now) presenter to come out.
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@MiketheSnow said in Black Lives Matter:
It's all becoming very cultish, do as I say not do as I do.
Indeed. With no though or critical reasoning allowed.
It's very interesting to watch the reactions of cult members when actual logic and rational argument is deployed.
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@MajorRage said in Black Lives Matter:
@Rembrandt I'm guessing you've already seen this one. Same theme
Yep, some doozy compilations of rich white blm protesters attacking black police doing the rounds too. This is from yesterday. Imagine if mainstream news actually reported what was going on rather than spin the bs 'pEAceFul PrOteTers' yarn.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Black Lives Matter:
@MiketheSnow said in Black Lives Matter:
It's all becoming very cultish, do as I say not do as I do.
Indeed. With no though or critical reasoning allowed.
It's very interesting to watch the reactions of cult members when actual logic and rational argument is deployed.
Jesus.
It boggles the mind.
Those campaigning to defund the police should spend a couple of days, and more importantly nights, in low socio-economic neighbourhoods both BAME and predominantly white.
They'd soon change their tune.
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@MiketheSnow said in Black Lives Matter:
Jesus.
It boggles the mind.
Those campaigning to defund the police should spend a couple of days, and more importantly nights, in low socio-economic neighbourhoods both BAME and predominantly white.
They'd soon change their tune.I listened to the Tucker Carlson monologue @Rembrandt posted and noted the politicians in Minneapolis who voted to abolish the police also voted themselves private security paid for by Minneapolis taxpayers. Shocked I tell you, shocked.
There were 150 or so black teenagers knifed to death in London in 2019 - mainly drug runners delivering to "respectable" London citizens. No BLM protests, no one gave a fuck when these kids bled to death in the street. No hypocrisy or false consciousness there then.
I'm hugely in favour of serious action to open up opportunities for disadvantaged people (I'm involved in a very small way) as there's a huge waste of talent going on and if we harness it we'll all be richer and better off - and not just financially. But the antics we've seen in the last few weeks has probably put that cause back by years.
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Its like the idea that twitter represents actual peoples view. Removing the police is a great idea for university graduates pumped up on the evil of Marxism, criminals intent on commiting more crime and the average useful idiot from money who doesn't bother researching crime statistics and instead follows headlines written by said Marxist university graduates.
Real people in these areas are the ones who will suffer.
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@Rembrandt Interviews like Ami's with genuinely privileged white people make me laugh and shake my head. It's astonishing how delusional people can be - " I feel safe, so there's no requirement for police and I assume everyone else feels the same", not realising the preconditions for that aura of public safety. And presuming to know the experience of others and speak for them.
Now that's modern racism.
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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:
@Rembrandt Interviews like Ami's with genuinely privileged white people make me laugh and shake my head. It's astonishing how delusional people can be - " I feel safe, so there's no requirement for police and I assume everyone else feels the same", not realising the preconditions for that aura of public safety. And presuming to know the experience of others and speak for them.
Now that's modern racism.
And that's the cancer of social media. You get demonetised, demoted and banned for putting up an alternative point of view even if backed up with hard stats so these folk are often never exposed to the other side of a story.
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@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:
You get demonetised, demoted and banned for putting up an alternative point of view even if backed up with hard stats
Welcome to the fern.
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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:
@Rembrandt Interviews like Ami's with genuinely privileged white people make me laugh and shake my head. It's astonishing how delusional people can be - " I feel safe, so there's no requirement for police and I assume everyone else feels the same", not realising the preconditions for that aura of public safety. And presuming to know the experience of others and speak for them.
Now that's modern racism.
Shell meet nut
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It would be fair to say that BLM has been somewhat neutralised over here. Lots of companies which jumped on the bandwagon have now distanced themselves from it. Premier League itself the most high profile.
Now, I know she's not even close to impartial on her views (although unlike most she has respect for those who differ with her), I'm listening to Julia Hartley-Brewer this morning about the whole thing and it certainly seems to have little respect anywhere now. Harry's statement over night has gone down like a cup of cold sick.