Take Reading for example. The media were doing their best to not mention anything about skin colour or religion for fear of upsetting the minority. But.... If it were a bloke from middle England, as pale as can be, stabbing blacks or our 'followers of peace', then the headlines would have been as dramatic as they come. 'White killer' or 'Black Lives Lost'. Just ludicrous. The media are playing us (under instruction).ben g said:
Explain the difference for me....
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Double fekin standards all over the place these days.
Why, just yesterday I was berated for taking my skateboard on the bike path here in NL 'at my age!'
I got a bit of a wobble on as I was carrying some shopping back from the shops and the old girl crossing the bike path in front of me tagging her little doggy behind her got a bit alarmed. I think she thought I was going to plough into her mutt. 'Wat doe je met een skateboard, ouwe klootzak?!'
She failed to realise me being a little bit sick in my mouth at the sight of an 80yr old in a miniskirt.
:lol:
I must add a disclaimer that she was not 'a person of colour'.
Why, just yesterday I was berated for taking my skateboard on the bike path here in NL 'at my age!'
I got a bit of a wobble on as I was carrying some shopping back from the shops and the old girl crossing the bike path in front of me tagging her little doggy behind her got a bit alarmed. I think she thought I was going to plough into her mutt. 'Wat doe je met een skateboard, ouwe klootzak?!'
She failed to realise me being a little bit sick in my mouth at the sight of an 80yr old in a miniskirt.
:lol: I must add a disclaimer that she was not 'a person of colour'.
dr_john said:
So true,sad folk don't have a sense of humour,and as other said_people get "offended" by everything nowadays,and the PC brigade in power,decide to ban certain items/TV shows,etc etc.
So damn annoying.
Do none of these people have the testicular fortitude to stand up to these PC numpties,and say no/f**k off,that or this isn't racist,just Comedy or whatever it may be in reference to!!
... and we are the architects of this situation. Until the silent majority put the metaphorical squeeze on their MP's nuts at election time PC will continue to hold sway as MPs fear not being re-elected.
I think part of the problem IS having a like button on social media which drives an atmosphere of compliance by social fear; where it no longer means 'like' its now a requirement to stay part of the group to avoid social bullying - something social media was born for (but don't get me ranting about that).
... and before the key board warrior-ing PC zealots aim their sights at me this is a comment about the situation not the content of any recent event. I spent my working life undoing (as far as is possible) the consequences of intolerance; falling outs on social media; and the 'positive discrimination' initiatives where the Holy Grail was to appoint a BAME disabled lesbian onto your team - rather than the best candidate for the job.
I suggest that if we want to do something we type an email to our MP rather than a post on here - but hey this is middle England (who else would own a weekend sports car) so we'll just sit and complain. We have too much to lose compared to some issue based groups so we''ll keep our heads down and weather it as always.
Anyone else I haven't upset? just PM so I can apologise
I think part of the problem IS having a like button on social media which drives an atmosphere of compliance by social fear; where it no longer means 'like' its now a requirement to stay part of the group to avoid social bullying - something social media was born for (but don't get me ranting about that).
... and before the key board warrior-ing PC zealots aim their sights at me this is a comment about the situation not the content of any recent event. I spent my working life undoing (as far as is possible) the consequences of intolerance; falling outs on social media; and the 'positive discrimination' initiatives where the Holy Grail was to appoint a BAME disabled lesbian onto your team - rather than the best candidate for the job.
I suggest that if we want to do something we type an email to our MP rather than a post on here - but hey this is middle England (who else would own a weekend sports car) so we'll just sit and complain. We have too much to lose compared to some issue based groups so we''ll keep our heads down and weather it as always.
Anyone else I haven't upset? just PM so I can apologise
People have decided to take offense to anything. Color (I am a colonist) has become just one of many. A cop kills a man of color and the world burns. 6 people of color die (1-3 years old!) over the weekend in Chicago and there is only some hand wringing. Any life lost to violence is one too many, but where is the vigor and emphasis when it is not caused by someone wearing a uniform?
This blew me away today. Another "please explain the difference":
So 'Black Lives Matter' is a slogan to be encouraged, supported, embraced and not considered at all racist, .... whilst 'White Lives Matter' is offensive, reprehensible, something to be ashamed of and completely racist?
What the actual f*** is going on?! This is insane!
So 'Black Lives Matter' is a slogan to be encouraged, supported, embraced and not considered at all racist, .... whilst 'White Lives Matter' is offensive, reprehensible, something to be ashamed of and completely racist?
What the actual f*** is going on?! This is insane!
I'm all ears. My questions are real. I need someone to give me a clear explanation. The thing is, I haven't heard one yet. I see a lot of people being howled down for saying ALL lives matter (isn't that the aim?) without any real substance to the demand.Smartbear said:
ALL lives matter. That's that. I'd 100% get behind a movement called We All Matter - WAM (much more catchy too!).
Isn't that what counts?
Z4C_er said:
It looks like the re-surfacing of New Age Travellers that we had in the UK in the early 1990s. The "softly-softly" policing of those people in Toronto is probably the best strategy as a means of containment of the provocative anarchists who are attempting to escalate their actions into police violence and become martyrs in their own minds. They'll eventually have had enough when they run out of drugs and living in the squalor that they'll create for themselves.
...And last night.
https://youtu.be/CRJrCBTZzJ4
Apparently social distancing message hasn't reached these people. As far as the black community goes, they have been hit pretty hard by CV-19, and one would think that as a community they'd be a little bit more wary about possibly contracting the disease and passing it on to the their loved ones (if they could stretch themselves to consider anyone else apart from themselves), but NO. These morons present themselves as crazed selfish uncontrolled animals.
https://youtu.be/CRJrCBTZzJ4
Apparently social distancing message hasn't reached these people. As far as the black community goes, they have been hit pretty hard by CV-19, and one would think that as a community they'd be a little bit more wary about possibly contracting the disease and passing it on to the their loved ones (if they could stretch themselves to consider anyone else apart from themselves), but NO. These morons present themselves as crazed selfish uncontrolled animals.
