Defacing Statues

lozcb

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Alexpie said:
Fortunately he hasn't died. I'd imagine his injuries will be pretty serious though having that fall on his head.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-injured-toppling-confederate-statue-virginia-n1229706
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Obviously no risk assessment carried out .........................these woke people cant even follow there own rules lol you could make tall this into a soap opera , but the BBC would probably remove it incase it offends the offspring of the protester that pulled it down
 
GeoffCapes

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So basically we now have to feel sorry because of the fact that I am white, and therefore have 'white priviledge'.
I'm also a bloke, so I should feel sorry for my 'male privilege'.

This is all lefty ********!

I will not apologise for being white, and nor should I have to. Nor should I have to apologise for being male.

What colour and gender (of which there are only 2) I was born is no choice of mine. Therefore I will not apologise for it.

However, if I was an arsehole and mistreated others because they were different to me, yes, I should apologise.

However, apologising for what others have done because they happen to be the same colour and gender as me, be it 2 minutes, 2 years, 200 years ago is nonesense.

Treating people right and educating them (of all colours and creeds) what has happened in the past is what should be done.
Regardless of how uncomfortable it is.

Yesterday I was speaking with a friend of mine, who also happens to be black and he hit the nail on the head.
He said, what needs to be done is to draw out the truth of what people take offence to. Not listen to mass media hysteria.
If we can watch and be taught about the holocaust, then why can't we be taught the history of slavery and slave masters?

Only then will we begin to heal old wounds. It won't be a quick process, but if it helps save lives then it has to be done.
 
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lifes2short said:
is there no statue-t for stupidity out there
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Why don't we erect one.

A larger than life testimonial to some self-flagellating sycophant genuflecting towards a recidivist who claims to be 1/128th indigenous, knows a black person and breakdances in air jordans?

They will flock from all around... To share tales of oppression

... And to share coronavirus....

Bring it on!!!
 
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GeoffCapes said:
I will not apologise for being white, and nor should I have to. Nor should I have to apologise for being male.
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Now you're just being completely insensitive....

... Or just do what i do. Remember, its not about facts...

So simply "identify" as transgender ***** bi transexual, with a smattering of "identifying" as a person of micronesian ancestry.

You may remain a white bloke, but you'll be celebrated.

Might even get a statue...
 
Alexpie

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lozcb said:
Obviously no risk assessment carried out .........................these woke people cant even follow there own rules lol you could make tall this into a soap opera , but the BBC would probably remove it incase it offends the offspring of the protester that pulled it down
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Ah but you're forgetting the rules don't apply to them and he was in the way of what they were doing, so his life doesn't matter. The same way lives don't matter unless you agree with the demands of the mob.

It's all getting a bit out of hand now. Anyone else see that in Seattle the protesters have taken over a 6-7 block area and barricaded it off?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-protests-armed-guards-local-businesses-extortion
 
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MarkMas

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lifes2short said:
who?, couldn't be arsed listening to it after about a minute, much prefer the yelling guy, makes far more sense than that drivel:p:p
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Yeah. That's why we have a problem:
  • Listen to a black man yelling that white people shouldn't feel guilty, and that black people are behaving badly - feel a warm comfortable sense that all is right with the world.
  • Listen to a black woman describing an everyday occurrence of being treated like a second-class citizen - think that it is irrelevant drivel.
 
CatmanV2

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MarkMas said:
Yeah. That's why we have a problem:
  • Listen to a black man yelling that white people shouldn't feel guilty, and that black people are behaving badly - feel a warm comfortable sense that all is right with the world.
  • Listen to a black woman describing an everyday occurrence of being treated like a second-class citizen - think that it is irrelevant drivel.
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Can't decide if that's an example of cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias or both ;)

C
 
Phil H

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lifes2short said:
you got that right, greta, covid and now this, what's next I wonder
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An invasion for sure. Either aliens, locusts, or both.
Don't fret though, I have it on good authority that Dominic Cummings will be checking out safe houses so we'll have plenty of warning.

PH
 
Wattie

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Alexpie said:
Ah but you're forgetting the rules don't apply to them and he was in the way of what they were doing, so his life doesn't matter. The same way lives don't matter unless you agree with the demands of the mob.

It's all getting a bit out of hand now. Anyone else see that in Seattle the protesters have taken over a 6-7 block area and barricaded it off?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-protests-armed-guards-local-businesses-extortion
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Yup 300% increase in crime in a week.
They’ll be begging for law enforcement to return soon.
 
MarkMas

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GeoffCapes said:
So basically we now have to feel sorry because of the fact that I am white, and therefore have 'white priviledge'.
I'm also a bloke, so I should feel sorry for my 'male privilege'.

This is all lefty ****!

I will not apologise for being white, and nor should I have to. Nor should I have to apologise for being male.

What colour and gender (of which there are only 2) I was born is no choice of mine. Therefore I will not apologise for it.

However, if I was an arsehole and mistreated others because they were different to me, yes, I should apologise.

However, apologising for what others have done because they happen to be the same colour and gender as me, be it 2 minutes, 2 years, 200 years ago is nonesense.

Treating people right and educating them (of all colours and creeds) what has happened in the past is what should be done.
Regardless of how uncomfortable it is.

Yesterday I was speaking with a friend of mine, who also happens to be black and he hit the nail on the head.
He said, what needs to be done is to draw out the truth of what people take offence to. Not listen to mass media hysteria.
If we can watch and be taught about the holocaust, then why can't we be taught the history of slavery and slave masters?

Only then will we begin to heal old wounds. It won't be a quick process, but if it helps save lives then it has to be done.
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Being annoyed about this, and going on about it, seems to be such a distraction from the real issues. I wonder what the relative proportion of social media messages saying "you should feel sorry / guilty" is, relative to the ones saying "why should I have to feel sorry / guilty?". I speculate that it is 1:1,000
 
lifes2short

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MarkMas said:
Yeah. That's why we have a problem:
  • Listen to a black man yelling that white people shouldn't feel guilty, and that black people are behaving badly - feel a warm comfortable sense that all is right with the world.
  • Listen to a black woman describing an everyday occurrence of being treated like a second-class citizen - think that it is irrelevant drivel.
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do we have a problem?, don't think you stated the problem clearly enough perhaps you could re cap and the sooner transport cafes open the better imo
 
MarkMas

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Wattie said:
Yup 300% increase in crime in a week.
They’ll be begging for law enforcement to return soon.
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Source for this crime statistic please?

I doesn't seem to be in the article cited, which is, the way, "Fox news, hears that Seattle police have heard anecdotally about potential extortion."
 
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