The notion that George Floyd’s needless and tragic death would see positive changes in society has all but been lost now.
The social media cancel culture mob are turning ordinary people against what the movement should be about.
And now it’s getting political and the left are losing yet again, you would have thought that the last few years would have made them realise that telling normal decent people they are bad people because they don’t conform to their views is not going to gain them power or change the world for the better.
Society is not going to progress at the rate normal decent people would like if everyone is angry all the time forming group after group to fight each other.
Everything is extreme, there is no centre point anymore.
I’m sure if you would ask the Bristol public whether that statue of Edward Colston should still stand or be consigned to a museum and there was a proper debate over it, the answer would have been no and it would have been removed correctly. Instead it is torn down in an anarchist way that antagonises normal people.
Why can’t people discuss things in the correct manner? We all have names, culture, family history, talents and most importantly opinions. It seems that everything that is going on at the moment is designed to make us the same in the name of “equality”.
You read the newspapers, watch the news, scroll through tweets, get tagged in a Facebook post and everything is designed to recruit you and brainwash you to what they believe in. Everybody is trying to be that one person that can change the world which is impossible to achieve which in turn creates anger that “society isn’t doing enough so we must press harder”.
There will always be racism, just like there will always be murders, corruption, favouritism, bullying and any of the hundreds of examples I could have listed that don’t shine a good light on humans. You cannot eradicate any of them, they are part of the human DNA. It just seems that it’s a never ending “battle” with the delusion that it will be won. If a racist abuses a black player at a Premier League game, that does not mean that football in England has a racism problem, it just means that a racist is a football fan and he should be dealt with in the correct manner which luckily we now deal with in the correct manner, ban for life.
History exists to educate people as well. There was a post on here earlier today which was a good opinion in that black history is not celebrated enough. I agree with this, the way black history is portrayed is negative with undertones of bitterness. How far do we go back in history to a point where the demographic you belong to was suppressed against? We cannot change history, we can only change the future.
Are you saying they should not write to Patel if they don’t agree with her?
Why? So far in the US it has prompted some quite big changes and a majority of white Americans are now polled at believing the police target Blacks unjustly. Isn’t that quite a significant shift?
No, clearly they should throw things at her and then throw her in the river.
Are you saying they should not write to Patel if they don’t agree with her?
What changes are those?
Polls in my opinion should never be used as an indicator of change when they poll a small amount out of a country of 300m.
I think they preferred the medium of letter.
I think Minneapolis pledging to disband its police dept was an interesting step. The extreme police reaction to the protests about police brutality has driven the increase in support for reform following the Floyd murder. It’s certainly highlighted the militarisation of the American police. NASCAR prohibiting the Confederate flag was symbolic but significant considering its fan base.
It will be interesting to see how this continues to develop and Polls are accurate barometers of opinion.
No, they can write to her if they want. I strongly disagree with their opinion though that she should fall in line because she's an ethnic minority.
All I see is pledging and highlighting though? I am a British citizen in my thirties and I knew about the police brutality in America. I’m currently watching Trial by Media on Netflix and it highlights it again on there especially in the case of Amadou Diablo. The flag I agree on is a positive change but worth all the carnage?
What positive effect has George Floyds death had on the UK?
Firstly what carnage? And secondly what positive change do you intend to push for?
Right at the end he's on top of Nelsons hat. Not a hard hat or hi-viz in sight - just a pair of flares and a jacket from army and navy.
Patel’s issue is not her ethnicity but her lack of empathy. Her ethnicity may make her lack of empathy disappointing when it comes to race relations, but her tone death approach is not surprising. She is after all still overseeing the same policies that led to the Windrush scandal and has done little to ensure compensation has been paid to its victims.
In a cabinet full of second rate, toadying chancers she is close to being the worse of the lot. It is also interesting that the approach of the Chancellor was far more nuanced than Patel’s.
Signed by an Naz Shah who was suspended for anti semitism
Whats now happened is a bunch of predominately white people, in supporting that movement, have taken it upon themselves to push it towards the censorship or eradication of anything they believe to be offensive to those people. The thing is though, all that has done is angered the very people the BLM movement is pleading to in the first place. Any initial sympathy is then drowned out in anger at the idea it’s then turned into an attack on their culture and ultimately for no benefit to anyone.
Iz you sayin' that cuz l iz black?You need to stop watching 2001 A Space Odyssey. You will be wanting to throw rocks at the other apes soon. (Disclaimer - no disrespect meant to other species of apes).
They're going after Patel now.
The patronising and racist belief that all ethnic minorities should share the same opinion.
When ISIS destroyed Palmyra because it did not conform to their beliefs and was found to be offensive, the world was quite rightly angry, upset and saddened. We now see a group of self proclaimed keepers of all things right and proper calling for the destruction of historical artifacts because they have deemed them to be offensive. Sorry, I am not offended, I do not agree with some of the things that were done by these people but for a minority to decide what I should or not see is totally unacceptable. This has gone beyond the terrible issue of racism into the area of mob rule by threat. What is next Kristallnacht for those shops deemed unacceptable to a few self proclaimed leaders?