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Nicholas91 The Democratic Republic of Kent 11 Jun 20 3.40pm | |
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BlueJay UK 11 Jun 20 3.54pm | |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Taking the knee for the left and black people is seen as 'the way' even if you dont think it necessary I reckon. Imagine refusing and the kick back. Self preservation society. Even kier starmer is at it, in his office. What does it actually signify anyway. I believe it started with Colin Kaepernick as a peaceful protest against police brutality. Trump didn't help matters by calling him a son of a bitch, but as these things tend to, it's now gone full circle with videos popping up of people being forced or intimidated into taking the knee, which while rare, clearly isn't peaceful. Policing in the US and UK is night and day so it's more momentum than meaning here in my view. Many of the protesters are no doubt well meaning and have genuine issues to raise, but we've got the opposite problem to the US excesses with police here looking embarrassingly weak and thin on the ground. That's been exploited by people who take advantage of any opportunity to wreck havoc. There is at least an argument to be made for these slave owner statues to be placed in museums - through democratic process tho - but when we start seeing videos of an anguished Leigh Francis and Ant and Dec; Little Britain, Mighty Boosh, and League of Gentlemen disappearing from our screens [Link] we have descended into farce. Nobody viewed these characters to be racist even weeks ago. If people are wanting the focus on be on genuine issues, it's a world away from the tokenism of scanning through TV archives to find something that's 'blackface' but isn't. Blackface was the intentional mocking of someones skin colour. Race wasn't the butt of the joke of any of the larger than life characters in these shows. Edited by BlueJay (11 Jun 2020 3.55pm)
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Stirlingsays 11 Jun 20 4.04pm | |
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Mockery is fine. If someone wants to wear 'blackface' fine, if someone wants to wear 'whiteface' fine. Both have been done in movies.....whiteface amusingly by none other than now activist Lenny Henry. If society wants to heighten racial sensitivity and carry on upping the 'protected classes' mantras.....then they are playing the wrong tune....for the establishment that is. Those of us who are convinced the edifice eventually falls and balkanization deepens...this is just another step along the way. Comedians on the right will start playing to their own audiences and ridiculous taboos will eventually be broken.....that's always the start....mockery. Edited by Stirlingsays (11 Jun 2020 4.07pm)
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Spiderman Horsham 11 Jun 20 4.16pm | |
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Statue of Queen Victoria defaced in Leeds.
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BlueJay UK 11 Jun 20 4.27pm | |
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PalazioVecchio south pole 11 Jun 20 4.29pm | |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Statue of Queen Victoria defaced in Leeds. The Pablo Escobar of opium.
Many Chinese will smile at the Victoria statue getting a kicking . Edited by PalazioVecchio (11 Jun 2020 4.34pm)
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Hrolf The Ganger 11 Jun 20 5.08pm | |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Statue of Queen Victoria defaced in Leeds. It's just too funny. Do these contemptible morons realise that everything that has ever happened is linked somehow? This is more about lame brained left wing radicals attacking our institutions rather than anything to do with black history. Hiding history will just make it easier to repeat it later.
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Spiderman Horsham 11 Jun 20 5.09pm | |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
The Pablo Escobar of opium.
Many Chinese will smile at the Victoria statue getting a kicking . Edited by PalazioVecchio (11 Jun 2020 4.34pm) Ah the Chinese, the ones who uphold Civil Rights unless you are Tibetan or Muslim
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cryrst The garden of England 11 Jun 20 5.35pm | |
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Farage has gone from LBC.
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Hrolf The Ganger 11 Jun 20 5.51pm | |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Farage has gone from LBC. Do we know exactly why?
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Teddy Eagle 11 Jun 20 5.51pm | |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Farage has gone from LBC. And that champion of free speech, James O’Brien, has tweeted “we got our station back”. Seems they’re leading Britain’s conversation as long as no one strays from the party line.
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cryrst The garden of England 11 Jun 20 5.55pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Do we know exactly why? Said something negative about blm
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